It has been forever since I have written. I am busy with school. Almost done getting my AA in Early Childhood Education. Will graduate in May of 2011. There is so much going on in my brain and my heart. It would take a book to write about it. But I will go from today and try to write more as we are on journey to Africa. Oh my goodness, that put excitement in my heart. I can't wait to see what God is going to do. But I know he has given us a desire for the children of the world. Also wanting to get out of our comfort zone! Here we come, Lord! Use us as you created us for.

Trip to Maui!!!!!

We are so excited that we get to go to Maui next month for almost a full week. We are going with my family. It will be so great. We are staying at this condo. We are starting to make a list of all the fun things we want to do while we are there. It will be so fun to be with my husband and my family in Hawaii. This trip could not come at a better time due to being so to this semester of school being close to being done.

October already?

I can't believe that it is already October. I have been very busy with school work. The classes are great! But alot of work. Sorry for not posting! Even though I don't know very many people who read this blog. I do need to start reading more.

A wonderful 4th of July!!

Tom and I had a wonderful 4th of July. We spent the morning, making a Taco Dip to take to a party that we were going to that afternoon. We spent the afternoon at a friend's house. There was swimming and fun by all that were there. We had yummy food. That night, we went to a friend's house to watch fireworks at the fairgrounds near there. It was so fun. We had yummy rootbeer floats and watched the fireworks. Then we did fireworks in front of the house. It was fun.

Thoughts on this Friday

I can't believe it is already the beginning of June. I have been busy with all my work at church. It is summer time. So we are doing our VBS. Which we do diffently from other churches. We do it all summer. We are doing Power Lab from Group.It is alot of fun so far. I am taking the 5 days and turning into 13 weeks.

I got the CD from Steven Curtis Chapman today. It has a beautiful song called Cinderella. It is very precious song especially since Steven and his family lost his youngest daughter in a tragic accident a couple weeks ago. I heard it on the radio one day this week. I was sobbing as I was driving.

I am trying to get into menu planning and eating healthy. I also want to get into baking more. I just have to do it so it is healthy. I am hoping that I will be able to post my weekly menu on Monday.

Our 6th anniversary weekend

This was such a wonderful weekend! Tom and I started our anniversary weekend staying at a bed and breakfast in Sacramento. It is called Amber House. We stayed in the Poet's building. It was such a nice place. We walked down to Cafe Bernardo. We had yummy food. Tom had italian calzone. I had chicken with asparagus and potatoes. In the morning, we had waffles with fruit and bacon for breakfast. Very yummy:) We definetely didn't want to leave. We are already trying to figure out when we can go back. On Saturday, we went to the mall and checked out a Lego store there and just spent time together. Then we went to see the movie Knowing with Nicholas Cage. Which was a interesting movie. We then had dinner at Mimi's Cafe. After that, we went home. Then today, we went to Delta King for their Sunday brunch. We then walked around Old Sacramento and a little bit of downtown Sacramento. We then went to Ikea. I am so blessed to call Tom my husband and my best friend!!!

God's blessings

I am blessed to have a God that loves me. That he wants me to come to him and spend time with him. I know that he has so much planned for me and my sweetie. I am so blessed to have a husband who loves me with all his heart. He is such a blessing to me. God blessed my husband with a pay raise that will help us so much. I am debating about going back to work. I miss certain things about being a pre-school teacher. I know that God will show me in his timing what he wants me to do. I love working at the church once a week, doing children't ministry stuff.

I am facing my insecurities that are in my life right now.

I haven't posted on this blog in a very long time. We can't adopt right now due to medical situation that prevents us from adopting from China.We are looking into Ethiopia. I know that God has a plan for us to have a family. I am trusting in him to direct. But one thing I am sure of is that we will go overseas and serve. I am not sure what that will look like. But I praise God that he knows and has a plan for us. I hope someday we will be able to adopt Hannah. She is definetely in our hearts.

Thanksgiving 2008

This Thanksgiving, we had two of them. We spent Thanksgiving at the retirement home that my husband's grandma lives out. It was fun. We had a chance to look at old family photo's and spend time with her. Then on Friday, we went down to San Jose where my father and step-mom live. We meet up with my brother and his girl-friend there.

A fun day!

Due to Tom working last Sunday, he was able to take today off. After we had to get one of Tom's tires fixed. We decided to go to the Jelly Belly Factory in Fairfield. We have been before. But it is such a fun place to go. It was busy. But it didn't stop us from being able to go on the factory tour. It is so neat to see how the jelly beans are made. Then we got free jelly beans. Then we had a late lunch. After that, we decided to go to the Nut Tree area in Vacaville. They have a cute family park there. We didn't go in. Since you had to pay to get in. But we got ice cream at a creamery and watched all of the action. They had some cute kids rides. We then went shopping. There was a Old Navy store. I got two sweaters each for $6.00 and a bag for $6.00. I got a Rachel Ray cookbook at Home Goods. We headed home. Then we went to Target and had dinner at Pei Wei. It was such a fun day.

Our 5th Anniversary

On Saturday, Tom and I celebrated our 5th anniversary. I can't believe it has been 5 years already. Since our anniversary fell between Good Friday and Easter, we decided to stay in town. So we went for Afternoon Tea at a place called Afternoon to Remember in New Castle. We had a full tea. So we started off with a sweet potato soup and black ham quiche. So very yummy. Then we had tea sandwiches and scones with Devonshire Cream and lemon curd. A couple of yummy desserts also. We were so full. So we were able to bring home some of our goodies. We also got a picture taken of us that was put in teapot frame. Which turned out to be a great picture of us. It was fun to have tea. When we were on our honeymoon in Victoria,Canada. We went to have tea at the Empress Hotel. Which was fun. So having tea together is special thing for us to do.

After tea, we decided that we didn't want to go home since the day was so beautiful. So we decided to go out to the outlets. We just walked around. I got a couple of kitchen stuff.
Then we had a couple of errands to do. So we did those and went home. It was a nice day. I love spending time with my husband. He is so much fun. I love him very much!!!

Spring Reading Thing 2008!

I am so glad thatI am able to take part of this opportunity to share my list of books that I would like to read.

1. The Postcard and the Crossroad by Beverly Lewis.

2. Desire by John Eldredge

3. Close Enough to Perfect. This book is a collection of 4 stories by different authors.

This is a short list for now. I will add more later.

Today, I picked up two book at the local christian bookstore. I got

1. Treasures for women who hope by Alice Gray

2. A walk with Jane Austin by Lori Smith.

I am so looking to reading A walk with Jane Austin.

A New Chapter in our lives!

I can't believe how long it has been since I last wrote on this blog. Life has been crazy. We lost my mother in law to cancer the day after my birthday. She was only 52 years old.The next day, we lost my grandfather. My grandfather was almost 98 years old. It was a hard time to have two deaths in our family. We are now the owners of the house that my mother in law lived in. I am so glad to be out of our apartment. We moved from a one bedroom apartment to a three bedroom house. Moving is not fun:) But now I have to unpack everything. But I can take my time.

Fall into Reading 2007

It is that time of the year for the Fall into Reading Challenge hosted by Katrina at Callapidder Days.

Here is my list of what I want to read this Fall.

1. As sure as the Dawn by Francine Rivers.

The book club at my church have been reading the Mark of Lion series by Francine Rivers. This is the last book of the series. I have enjoyed the other two books. Looking forward to starting this one.

2. A Tendering in the storm by Jane Kirkpatrick.

3. Beauty by the Book by Nancy Stafford.

4. The power of a Praying Wife by Stormie

Omartian.

This is my list so far. I am starting small.

A Fun Swap

I am taking part in this. I think it will be alot of fun! Check it out here.http://watibg.blogspot.com/2007/07/introducing-sisters-shoebox-swaps.html.

I will be posting another entry soon.

Lori Wick Book

For the giveway, I am giving away a book that I really enjoyed. I got a new copy of it today at the Christian Bookstore. It is called Princess by Lori Wick. Right now I can't post the picture of it. But you can check it out at Amazon. The gift will include the book and bookmark and anything else that I think to put in. I will only mail to people in U.S. Sorry about that to anyone overseas. It is just too expensive. I will pick out a name on Friday.
Sorry there is nothing else on this blog. I just started it. I hope to have more on it by Friday. Thank you for checking my blog out. So go over
to http://www.rocksinmydryer.net/ to check out all fabulous people who are giving so many things away.

Actually I am not doing this giveway. I wasn't able to put my name and contest in.

2007 China Calendar

We just got in the mail the China 365 Days in 2007 Calendar. It is a nice calendar. I enjoy seeing the pictures. It is also a reminder of our daughter who God will bring to us one day. I look forward to seeing her! She is always in my thoughts and prayers!

Wow! It has been a long time since I have last posted. I have add some more stuff to Hannah's Collection. The stuff on the left is what I brought with a gift certificate I got for my Birthday in November. The stuff on the right is stuff I got for Christmas. I got the green stocking just in case we have a son someday. If not, we can give it to someone else someday.

Also a update on this 1st day of January, Tom and I have decided that we will not be able to adopt from China right now. The changes that CCAA is making to the China Program will affect us. We know that one day we will have our daughter from China. We give her to God and ask him to bring her to us in his timing. We both have a peace. We keep Hannah in our hearts. Our prayers this year is for God to bless us with a child. This wish is even more precious because we found out the day after Christmas, that my mother in law has incurable lung cancer that had spread to her back and stomach. She had surgery to remove the cancer from her back and stomach the day before Thanksgiving. She will go through chemo and radiation. We are not sure when yet. So we want her to meet her grandkid(s) since Tom is her only son. As we start 2007, I am reminded how precious life is. I thank God for my husband who is my best friend. I can't believe we have been married almost 4 years. I thank God for our health. I also thank God for all of my family and friends. I also thank God for our church. I also thank God for the people who I have been introduced to this year through all the blogs I have found. Hopefully in 2006, I will stop lurking and comment. I thank God for all of the precious girls and boys who I have watched be joined with their Forever Families. I also pray for those families who so want to have their children home but have to wait. But I know that they will have the right child for them in the right timing. Waiting is not fun though! I am so excited about 2007 and what this year holds for Tom and I. What does God have planned for us?

What a special day!

My friend, Christi has been in the process of international adoption from China since 2005. She meet her daughter, Abbey today for the first time. Abbey is such a gift from God. Christi is going to be a wonderful mom. I am so happy for Christi and Abbey! May God bless their family. Abbey is now a part of a family who will love her and be there in good times and bad times. She is no longer an orphan. Giving thanks to God for putting those two together! What a happy time and they will have so many happy moments together. If you want to read the whole story, click on cherryblossombaby in the side-bar.

The Orphan's Prayer
I am waiting... somewhere far.... far... away on the other side of the world.I may not know who you are or what you look like,But somehow deep in my heart I know you are there.That one day you will come and find me.It's a long journey, and it takes a lot of time...I wish it could be easier.But I know that the ones who come for me will not count the cost.They will only see the joy of finding me.For now I abide in the fields of the fatherless.Day by day wondering why I was born here and not somewhere else?Asking... why my life couldn't have been different?It's so lonely...Even though I am surrounded by hundreds of other children,I know that something is missing...I know in my heart I need a place to call home.My arms long to be wrapped in a father's embrace...I long to be saved by a mother's love...Even as I lie alone in the darkness each night somehow I feel assured,That no matter how lost I appear I am not alone.Holy hands guard my steps; sacred fingers wipe my tears, touching my lonely heart.The one who made me,The God that knew me before I was born,Hears me every time I call.He whispers His promises in my ear.I listen with hope to His voice.But what I worry about most is that no one wants to look for me.The fields are vast and there are so many scattered all over the earth.I wonder how one little child, so lost, can be found?Yet He calms my heart and assures me that He will find you.That He will make sure that you hear His voice clearly.He has promised me that He will make a way through the fields,That He will personally cut a path and lead you right to my orphange door.My prayer is...When He speaks...Please don't forget to listen...When He calls don't be too afraid to go.For I am waiting...somewhere, far... far... away On the other side of the world To come home.