{UPDATE}

We got an update on Makayla this morning!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I am so excited!!!! Here is a LO I created this morning of her new pictures:) I cannot believe how much she has already grown since last month! She is so cute with her little smirk in the first picture!

{WE GOT OUR...}

Log In Date (LID) TODAY and a Lady Bug Letter from our Adoption agency!!!! However, our LID is was actually dated for August 27, 2009 because China releases them in batches. So, it was only 6 days after our Dossier went to China that we got our official LID. Clearly God has a plan and I am freakin' excited to live it!!!!

Now, we are waiting for a SPEEDY Letter Seeking Confirmation (LSC). That states that we do in fact want our Makayla and then when that is returned to CHINA with a big YES, we will then receive our Travel Approval (TA)!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! We are one step closer to our little girl!!!

Also, the family that is taking our photo album and stuffed animal to Makayla, will be there on the 21st of this month. That is only 11 days until she sees US, her FOREVER FAMILY!!!!! I cannot wait to see MORE pictures of absolute sweetness.

In the mean time, I have been working on Makayla's 100 Good Wishes Quilt. I have 48 squares ready to sew and 27 coming in the mail from a Yahoo Group I joined. The 27 squares are from women all over the world who are also adopting from China and making their child a quilt. I just mailed 25 letters with fabric and wishes in it. Some are doing two quilts, so I sent two in an envelope. I am so excited and can't wait to get fabric back!!! There were women from Puerto Rico, Australia, Canada and all over the USA. This is going to be a beautiful quilt!!!! I will post pictures when I get started sewing.

I also finished reading another book...Saving Levi. If you have not read this book, you should!!! It was a fast read and a very touching. It shows God's Hands in one family's entire adoption process. You will be amazed!!!

OK, well there is your update! Keep praying...it's working!!!!!!

Hugs,
The Sweeney's

{Makayla's Room}

I finally had a moment to post a picture of Makayla's room for you all to see. I just LOVE to be in her room right now! I sometimes just lay on the floor and imagine that I am that much closer to her.
My neighbor and friend Christine painted Makayla's wall for me and we love it!!! Then only thing we are waiting for is her actual crib mattress and of course the most important is her!

~NEWS~NEWS~NEWS~NEWS~
We also had some other exciting news...we sent Makayla a small package (8-27-09) with a photo album and a stuffed animal blanket. I had so much fun making the album for her, it made me realize that this very album I am putting together for her will actually be in her tiny hands THIS MONTH!!!! It has pictures of all of us, her Grand parents, our house, her room and her pets. There is another family going to get their little one from the same orphanage that Makayla is at and they were willing to take her a package for us. I am so excited for her to get it, maybe it will put a smile on her little face!
Here area couple of pictures of us with her items...we are actually at the post office because I forgot the camera!!! I had just had a corneal bandage (contact) put on my eye and I was NOT thinking that morning! I had a paper-cut on my eye and it would not heal with out this contact!!! Thank God for contacts, the pain was awful until the bandage! Enough about me...here is the picture taken with my cell phone...Have a wonderful week!!!
The Sweeney's


And now these three remain: Faith, Hope and Love. But the greatest of these is love.
~1 Corinthians 13:13