Room is Ready!

Na Hui's room is ready for her. Now we just need to get through the rest of the school year and we can go get her.

Airplane Tickets Purchased!!!!!

It is official!!!! We have our consulate appointment and we have purchased our plane tickets. I won't even go into how much plane tickets cost. If we lived in the lower 48 it would have been a third less. We will get NaHui on June 11th and we will be back late on the 22nd.  It really is hard to believe. All is going well with the fundraiser. We have almost sold out the movie and are thinking about having a second showing. If you want Candied Jalapenos, we still have lots of those.

Travel Approval

We received an email today, that a week after our paper work was submitted, we received our travel approval from China. The next step is that our agency requests a consulate point for us at the US consulate in Guangzhou. Hopefully we will have our official travel dates by Monday or Tuesday of next week.

Article 5

I don't know what happened to this post but it disappeared. The post said something about our Article 5 being picked up and then was sent to Beijing to the CCCWA for Travel Approval.

NaHui when she was 4 yrs old.

The Final Push

Last week a couple of Dayna's friends from the neighborhood said they wanted to see the "Little Red Book" and we should show it as a fund raiser.  No this is not the Little Red Book made popular by Mao that has come a live on the screen in all it's splendor, but the one made popular by Lisle Hebert.  Lisle is a guy I used to work with who has been making movies for many years and when he asked if I wanted to be in his next picture I just could not resist. The movie played several weeks ago in town and was received very well. I believe it sold out every showing.  Many people have said they wanted to see it, but were out of town or forgot or what have you.  We spoke with Lisle and he was excited to be able to help us. 

The Little Red Book will be showing at the Gold Town Theatre downtown on Saturday, May 5th at Noon Thirty (12:30pm).  We will have the Candied Jalapenos for sale ($10.00 per pint) and a couple of my pieces of art available in a silent auction.  Admission is by ticket only ($20.00), so make sure you contact Dayna or myself if you are interested in coming to this event.    

We want to thank everyone who has helped in any way.  Some have helped monetarily, while others have helped with words of encouragement from their personal experiences.  We have such a wonderful family and extended family.  Dayna and I truly consider ourselves blessed.

Pepper Prep Pictures

Fred slicing peppers

We started making candied jalapenos at 9 am. This was after cutting the first few pounds. We prepped 71 pounds of peppers.

Cutting complete

Another look at all the peppers. It sure doesn't look like 71 pounds.

We have 191 pints of Candied Jalapenos that will be ready to sell in a couple of weeks.

Candied Jalapenos

Almost forget. We have Candied Jalapenos again so if you are interested in getting a jar, phone, email, or just come by. We made them in larger jars this time so they are $10. We will also be doing a fund raiser at the Goldtown Nickelodeon on April 28th. If you didn't know Fred was in a movie. The fund raiser will be the showing of the movie "Little Red Book"as well as including a silent auction. Candied Jalapenos will also be available. So anyway this is the "Little Red Fund Raiser" I will post more info as things become finalized. Hope to see many of you there.

They are wonderful!

Quick Update

Okay time for a quick update. We are waiting on our Article 5 which should be picked up from the US consulate in Guangzhou sometime next week. This is the last step before China will issue our travel approval. We also received our Chinese visas today, so we are ready to go on that end.

 We received an update on Na Hui last week. She has been receiving our letters and is happy about being adopted. We will get one more update on her before we travel. We are still hoping to be in the June 8th group, meaning we will be leaving Juneau on May 31st. We are planning on stopping in Portland on our way to Beijing. Believe it or not it is on the way. We are also hoping to fly back in to Portland so if you are in that area and want to meet Na Hui, we will allow enough time to come out of the secure area for folks to meet her before we continue on home.
The boys are starting to get excited about having a sister. They have been doing a little shopping.

Never fear, we didn't buy them, but it sure was fun playing with them in the store. Okay I will report more when we get our Article 5.