Nicholas Celebrates His Fifth Birthday

"To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven: A time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up that which is planted; Ecclesiastes 3: 1, 2"

Nicholas turned five on October 17th. Oh my, how the years have flown by. It only seems like yesterday that he was born. We celebrated his birthday on Saturday, October 18th and as usual we had the family come to celebrate with us. Unfortunately, Lorene could not come as she was sick but Bernard was able to attend. Carol was unable to join the celebration with us as sadly, her brother, Mike, died unexpectedly of a heart attack late Friday night so she was with her mother and father. Danielle and Daniel were able to attend and all the children enjoyed themselves very much. The weather was quite cool so we had the party indoors but after the food, gifts, and cake the children wandered outside and played for several hours. Jeremy and Jessi were home for the weekend so they also particpated in the celebration.

New Day posted pictures of the October birthday celebration that they held so I am also including a picture of Abigail celebrating her 3rd birthday. We are hoping to hear that we are LID (log in date) this week. This means that the CCAA has logged in our dossier and the clock starts ticking for us to travel to China to bring our little girl home. It will be several months but it is exciting to be one step closer to her.

We will be leaving on Friday to spend several days at Virginia Beach. We are looking forward to it as we did not have a Summer vacation this year. I hope I remember to take pictures so I can post them.

It is beautiful in Virginia right now. My flowers are still alive in the flower bed and the two maple trees in the yard are a brilliant red. It is my favorite time of year and the only thing missing is that my mother and daughter are not here to enjoy it with us.