BRACE YOURSELVES EVEYONE!!!!!!!

Mike and I have been talking and we have made a decision concerning the baby's name. A few months ago we, mostly I was talking about possibly changing her name and didn't. Now that we have her referral and it looks like we'll be getting her around the Christmas season we have decided that her name will be....

Noelle NiShuai Davis!

Noelle means shouts of praise, celebration of Jesus' birth, Christmas.
Anyway we Love it!


Everything kinda changed for me when we actually got her given name. I had in my head it was going to be Grace Olivia Mei and then when we heard her name NiShuai we were in love with it...... Anyway enough of my rambling on this is her name from this day forward.

We are so excited at the thoughts of celebrating our Savior's birth and bonding with our new baby girl at the same time! Please continue to pray for all of us in the coming weeks.

Adoption Creed

Not flesh of my flesh,
nor bone of my bone,
but still miraculously my own.
Never forget for a single minute,
you didn't grow under my heart,
but in it.

I love you Shuai, Shuai!
Mommy







Four Adoption Terms Defined

Natural child: any child who is not artificial
Real parent: any parent who is not imaginary
Your own child: any child who is not someone else's child.
Adopted child: a natural child, with a real parent, who is all my own.

These were our Christmas cards

I ordered these last year, but can't find them this year :( If anyone know how to get them please email me.

Our RA came today!!!!!

The FedEx truck pulled in the drive way around 11:30am! Mike and I signed them and I flew into town to make copies and mailed them to AWAA. They will arrive at AWAA tomorrow by noon and I think they'll be sent to China in the afternoon!!!!
We are praying in two weeks we'll get our TA so we can leave either the 20th or 27 of December!
This all seems so surreal :)

WE GOT OUR RA/LOA!!!!!!

There is dancing in the Davis house tonight!!!! Lauren just called and we have our RA/LOA!!!! So we can now post pictures of our beautiful little girl!!! We could leave as soon as Dec. 20th which would mean we would get Noelle on Christmas Eve or leave Dec.27.....slight chance it would be Jan 4th. Either way....we are going to get our baby very soon!!!!!!!!!!!
Thank you Lord for answering prayer!

This is Go Fish singing Christmas with a capital "C"

The video is a little weird, but the song is neat.

I AM POSTING THIS SONG/VIDEO....NOT THE OTHERS IT SHOWS UNDER IT.

China map

This is a map showing where we will be traveling to.

Grace's Bow Holder

I made Grace's bow holder this morning!

Last night was soooo fun! We picked up and set up our Christmas tree, watched ELF while wearing our new PJ's! It doesn't get much better than that! Except getting our RA and traveling to China to get our little Fu baby of course : ) Praying this week holds good news!!!

WOW.....If I hadn't read Nicoles blog I would have totally forgotten that TODAY is our ONE YEAR ANNIVERSARY of our log in date!! So congratulations to everyone else who has the same log in date!!!!!!

Happy Thanksgiving

Shuai Shuai,
We love you and we can't wait to hold you in our arms! We are praying to have you home or at least be with you for Christmas! We will be there as soon as we can! Happy Thanksgiving baby girl we love you!
Love & Kisses,
Daddy, Momma & Big sissy Robin



KISSES IN THE WIND
I hold you in my heart and touch you in my dreams.You are here each day with me, at least that's how it seems.
I know you wonder where we are... what's taking us so long.But remember child, I love you so and God will keep you strong.
Now go outside and feel the breeze and let it touch your skin...Because tonight, just as always, I blow you kisses in the wind.
May God hold you in His hand until I can be with you.I promise you, my darling, I'm doing all that I can do.
Very soon, you'll have a family for real, not just pretend.But for tonight, just as always, I blow you kisses in the wind.
May God wrap you in His arms and hold you very tight.And let the angels bring the kisses that I send to you each night.--- Unknown

Noelle's Finding Ad

Noelle NiShuai was about 1 month and 9 days old when this ad was placed. It's from one of the papers in the Jiangxi province where she was abandoned. The photo obviously would predate the ad by at least a few days, so I'll bet she was only about a month old. This is most likely the only newborn photo we will ever have of her......a pretty cool find! Thanks to Mr. Brian Stuy in Utah and his China research service. Babies can't be considered legally abandoned over there until an ad with their photo and finding info has been in the paper a certain number of days. We've never seen anyone with eyebrows like hers. They are literally half circle 180 degree arcs.....sweet!! I'm kind of anxious to see her ears in person (read the translation of the finding ad). She turned 14 mos. old as of this past Sunday.

It's snowing!

guess who i'm with in this picture

I had the best time on Saturday and Sunday! Angel and I drove to Lowell, Mass. to help with the Show Hope table at the Steven Curtis Chapman concert. The drive down was great, we didn't have any trouble finding our hotel. As we were leaving to head over to the auditorium we saw a mother getting off the elevator and she had a tiny little Chinese girl with her! She was sooo beautiful. We were able to talk to her for a few minutes before we headed over. After we got there she came in with her husband and turns out she was helping too and they were a fellow AWAA family and they have been home for 9 months. It was awesome to be able to talk and ask questions. The cool thing is that they traveled to the same province we'll be going to. Isn't God good that was an awesome blessing. I met another mom who was in the beginning stages of waiting and I was able to talk to her about the special needs program. That was really neat because she didn't understand at all how that all worked so she seemed excited to get home and talk to her husband about that! Also there was another AWAA family who just got a referral from Ethiopia for a 3 month old little girl!!!! They look to travel in Dec or Jan. I'll add a link to there blog. Anyway we met so many people that we were able to encourage that are praying about it but have been fearful taking that first step.

We collected change from everyone there and the money of course was going to Shohanna's Hope foundation. We raised around 2500.00 and the cool thing is we met a family that just got a referral for a little boy from Vietnam he's 7 months old and they are getting ready to travel. Anyway they brought them up on stage with SCC and he gave them all the money we raised! It was so neat. I guess they are doing that each night of the concert. They pick a family who applied for a grant and get them to the concert and surprise them with the money collected!

We didn't think we were going to be able to met him because you need a back stage pass or something. Well Nick with Show Hope gave us a couple tickets and 4 of us were able to go up and met him. I bought Grace the book Shoey and Dot and so Steven signed it for her! Angel was so mad at herself for not buying the book cause she wanted one signed for her baby. We'll just have to see if we can get to another concert! Anyway it was neat being able to share a bit of our adoption story with him and have a picture with him. He saw Grace's picture and said he thought she was beautiful....of course we do too! What asian baby isn't cute please tell me! They are all beauties : )

We didn't leave until around 12am or a little after. Had dinner at 1am and breakfast the next morning at 12 noon. talk about a messed up schedule! On the way home we went to babies r us and saw another family with an asian baby and so we approached her and got to talking and they have only been home for 4 days!!!! They said it was the best trip of their life! I'm just saying the entire trip was awesome and the Lord kept putting people in our path who we could either minister to or it was people who were able to minister to us! I can't say it enough how awesome the weekend was!!! If he ever comes close to Maine again I will definitely go help!

That's all I can think of for now...if I think of something else I'll post again. So I will post our pictures we had taken with him. I forgot my camera!!! Can you believe it!!! So I used my phone but of course that wasn't set to take a big pic. but at least we have this. It's kinda neat. The first one is me and the second one is Angel : )

I was reading a fellow AWAA's blog and she said that after she got her PA it was OK to post pictures on her private websites. So i'm thinking if she can, I must be able to and today would be a great day to post Grace's referral picture :)

We got Grace's crib today! It looks sooo girly and cute! I think Rainbow is liking the room too : )

A Christmas dress for Grace and a couple pictures for her room.

Thank you Judi for the cute socks!

Thanks you Sharon for the tights and socks!





Thank you Nicole for the cute socks and ladybug toy!

Here's the pictures I promised : )

I just HAD to do a quick post. Lauren from AWAA call me a little while ago and wanted to let me know that she had received the fax that I sent her and she also wanted to make sure we knew that some families had just received their RA's yesterday. She said that a few of the families that got their RA just got their referral the SAME time we got our referral for Grace!!!!! That is crazy....it hasn't even been 4 weeks yet! She said because we basically have all our ducks in a row that ours could come anytime! She said she still had to say anywhere from 2-5 months, but she still seems to think we'll be on the faster end of things.....I PRAY she's right. She also said once we get our RA that typically families will be in China 4 weeks from then if not sooner....sometimes a little after by a week or two.
It's probably a long shot but we are PRAYING to be able to travel sometime in Dec. even if it's the last day...we'll take it!
OK, well I just had to keep you up to date on what's happening. Now I need to go get ready for town. We are having ALL our shots for China this afternoon and we need more passport photos. I'll fill you in on how everything goes when I get home. And I'll get those pics. up then ;)

I want to post some pictures so bad, but I don't know how to get them from the camera to the computer. I am going to try to do it tomorrow....or have Mike do it for me.
Today we got our new I171H! It took only ONE week! And we got a package from AWAA! It had a nice med. size canvas bag that says America World Adoption Association in it! Also a travel packet!!!!! We have been assigned a travel coordinator and she sent several papers that need to be filled out and sent back to her ASAP!!!! This is making everything feel so real, I mean I know it's real but still kinda hard to believe : )

I will post pics tomorrow!