The craziness is in full swing....

I have not stopped all day.....

Packing, cleaning, making lists, running last minute errands......ready or not baby girl......we are coming!  (I think she is ready...haha!)

Please be praying for us...
We fly out Monday morning.  Our plane leaves at 8:30am, after a layover in Dallas, we leave from LA heading to Taipei at 2:30pm (which is Joplin 4:30pm).  As you head to bed on Monday night please pray for us as we are heading across the pacific ocean to meet our baby girl!  We are so excited. 

We will continue to update daily on this blog so dont forget to check each day!

But here is how you can begin to pray for us:

*Pray for our Social Worker appointment that we will answer the questions honestly and that all will go smoothly
*Pray for our court appointment.....we will meet Kenzie's birth mom at this appointment and we will be standing before the judge answering adoption questions.
*Pray for our time with Kenzie and the bonding that will begin over this short period of time.
*Pray for our time at THOGL that we can be a help to Ted and Bev and the babies that are there.
*Pray that our paperwork will be processed VERY QUICKLY and that I can travel back very soon to bring her home! 

Thank you so much friends for joining us on this journey!

 Love you all :)

Happy New Year!!!

I had intented to write this post yesterday but we had a fun filled day hanging out with my family and it just didn't happen! 

I am so incredibly excited for the year 2013.  Big and exciting changes for the Jett family! 

This time next week we will have spent an entire day with our sweet baby girl.  We heard from THOGL yesterday and Kenzie's birth mom has been notified of our court appointment and plans to meet us there.  We have so many emotions about that meeting.  Please begin to pray now for us as we meet her BM.  Please pray that she will know our heart and we will be able to communicate our gratitude towards her. 

Nerves are really starting to set in about our trip over....tomorrow I will post more about how we are feeling and how you can specifically pray!  Right now I am going to hang out with my little man....today is his last day of Christmas break and this momma is going to give him my undivided attention!

Kenzie Ann Mei-En Jett

5 months old

Weighs: 16.6 pounds

Length: 23.5 inches long

2 teeth

WAIT

A four letter word that holds so many emotions for me.....hope, frustration, trust, anger, love, worry, faith.....and the list could go on and on. 


WAIT

In life we are required to wait on so many things.  jobs, money, love, ADOPTION.  Waiting is a part of everyone's life.  Some wait patiently....others....like me....wait very unpatiently. 

What kind of "waiter" are you?  What is your attitude in your waiting?  Who or what do you rely on?

It is in your waiting that your true character is revealed. 

When you pray "Lord, let YOUR will be done."  Do you REALLY mean that?  Or are you actually praying with a selfish heart knowing your prayer actually means "Lord, let MY will be done"  If we prayed that prayer with pure motives we would never question God and His timing. 

I get it.....like I said I am someone who does not wait well.  I hate not having control...I hate not being in control....I hate not knowing the outcome.  But you know what I hate even more....not completely allowing God to handle my wait.  I get so frustrated with myself for giving in to satan and his evil plans to still the joy out of my waiting, the prayer out of my waiting, the full reliance on God out of my waiting.   

This has become my daily prayer..
"God, I am going to be faithful in the NOW and trust that when YOU decide to answer my prayer (in your way) you will."

Romans 8:28
"And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him, who have been called according to his purpose."

As Christians we often over look the fact that we will have troubles.  We expect life as a Christian to be easy, for God to answer our prayers exactly how we want them to be answered.  But if there is one thing that I have learned in my 33 years on this earth is that God rarely answers my prayers in the way that I want.  Does He answer them...yes....but rarely in "my timing" or "my plans".  So, yes we will have troubles...we will have waiting, but God promises to overcome.

So I leave you with this....
How are you in your waiting?
Will you still follow HIM even if HIS plan is not your plan....HIS timing is not your timing?

Our sweet Kenzie is 5 months old today!!!  She is growing up SO quickly.  I CANNOT wait to get my hands on her in just a week and a half.  It is going to be so hard to leave her but I know that I will be with her again very soon and she will be in our family forever. 

We have been having so much fun this Christmas break.  We have had tons of family time, relaxing time, and even some cleaning/organizing time (totally not my favorite and the offer still stands if someone wants to come to do that for me.....haha).  God has truly blessed me and I am so in love with every part of my life right now.  This time last year there were some MAJOR uncertainties but over the past year God has performed some amazing miracles and Richard and I will always give him all the glory, honor, and praise.  Some day I will share God's story of redemption, forgiveness, and love....but right now this blog is dedicated to our journey to Kenzie.

10 days....10 days baby girl....mommy and daddy are coming! 

We had an amazing Christmas!!

My parents surprised us with a trip to Dauphin Island this summer as an entire family (my sisters and their families included).  We have to pay for meals and souviners but everything else is taken care of!!  So June 29-July 6 we will be laying (as a family of 4!!!) on the beach!  So excited.

It was so fun to sit around and talk about Kenzie.....knowing she will be with us next year.  At first I thought it was going to be super hard but I actually was very upbeat and excited knowing that our process will all be over very soon and also that she will be in my arms even sooner!

We got an email from Ted this morning that the social worker appointment is on Jan. 10.  The SW appointment is important because this is a report that is submitted to the judge that shows him we are "fit" parents and encourages his approval on our case.  We are still praying for immediate approval!

Now the craziness of getting ready for Taiwan begins!  There is so much to do to prepare to be gone for a week and a half.  I am so thankful I got all of my school stuff done.  That is one less thing I have to worry about.  Now I just have to get us packed, make sure stuff is ready for Kyler, clean my house (anyone wanna come over and do that for me..hah) and finish getting Kenzie's room all ready! 

11 days and we will be on our way!!!  PTL! 

The baking is done.....the presents are wrapped....I am finally ready for Christmas.  This year is different than ever before.  My family is spread acrossed a HUGE pond.  Early on in the adoption of Kenzie we had prayed for a Christmas miracle.  We had prayed that we would have her home by tomorrow.  We quickly realized that, that wasn't going to happen.  Yes, we continued to pray but realistically we knew it wasn't going to happen.  So tomorrow I will wake up with various emotions.  Sad because my prayer was not answered in the way I had hoped, but excited because in 2 weeks I will finally get to hold my precious Kenzie in my arms. 

We found out a little more information about our process today.  Since our BM report is done the judge could actually issue us our first decree on the spot and we could begin the quick wait (about 2 weeks) for our final decree and AIT appointment but we were assured that, that probably will not happen.  We do believe in miracles and it would be amazing to be able to bring her home that quickly...so we will pray for that.  But we also have to remain realistic.  We were told every other couple has had to wait at least 5 weeks from the time the BM report was done and given to the judge before the judge has issued a first decree and then it is typically another 2 weeks after first decree before we can actually bring her home.  So from our court date around 7 weeks is a realistic time frame (end of Feb.).  We will continue to pray for sooner and ask you to join with us!  God knows!  .

We are slowly beginning to prepare for our flight over.  We called the airlines today to check on some baggage issues and I have started to make a "pile" of stuff that we will take.  Richard is working on her room this evening....setting up a shelf that I bought.  It is so exciting to see all this pink, girly stuff in my house!  I NEVER thought this day would happen!!!!  I will post pics of her room as soon as it is done!

God has truly blessed us this holiday season.  Although we wished our sweet Kenzie was home with us....we know we are still blessed to have her and are excited for the memories we will create with her very soon! 

Love you all.....
Thank you for the prayers and PLEASE keep them coming! 

 

Check out this cuteness!!!!

I CANNOT wait to get my hands on this precious baby girl!