Ainsley Faith is FOREVER in our arms!

December 18, 2011. Not a very special day to many people, unless you are my family. For today on December 18, 2011 at 4pm in Xi'an China our family was completed. Today, at four pm in the civil affairs office, a little girl named Ting Ting was placed in our arms. a very tiny little girl was carried into the civil affairs office, unaware of what was going on and placed in the arms of our family for forever. to love her and hold her for forever and ever amen. God has moved mountains for our precious girl and HE has HUGE plans for her life. I cannot wait to see them unfold. They will be amazing, we all know. We know now why our adoption process went by so fast. She needed us. We needed her. God is so with us. He has been from the moment we said yes to the moment she was placed in our arms. God is with us. For us. & loves us. What else matters? 

At 3:45pm we loaded the bus and left our hotel to make the very short trip to the affairs office. We pulled up and saw a little bundle being carried in…little did we know that that little bundle was our girl. We went to the elevator and up to the 6th floor, walked down a short hallway, turned left and into a door. as soon as we walked in we saw her. face to face for the first time. it was indescribable. She was very scared when we met her. We all kept our distance and just talked and looked at her while asking the orphanage questions. Her likes, dislikes, favorite things, background, etc. Everything we could possibly know about our girl. We got priceless gifts from the orphanage. Her finding clothes, a disk full of pictures, a scrapbook album of her growing up, and the list continues. It was amazing, wonderful, and breathtaking. My mom finally walked over to her and took her from the Nanny. Sweet girl was terrified {Who wouldn't be?!} but she was so very brave. She soon realized that we were okay and let my mom talk to her and play. No one else held her at the Civil Affairs Office. We went and got the family photo made. I went in with my parents to take pictures of it all. When we got up there Ainsley came right to me, reaching for me. It was an absolutely amazing tear jerking moment. I could not believe it. We snapped a few pictures, headed to the bus, and then to get dinner. We are all smitten with this little girl. She has stolen all of our hearts and has us wrapped around her finger. At dinner she ate, and ate, and then ate a little bit more. She loves food. Especially rice and any kind of sweet. Our guide Jojo did such a good job helping us to soothe her. We came back to the room and attempted a bath…let's just say that girlfriend has a lovely set of lungs on her and we won't be trying that again. :) We skyped some family and friends and just took in how blessed we were.

God is going to work BIG miracles through this little girl. He has already moved mountains to get us this far. 

Please continue to pray for Ainsley's heart as she transitions into our family and learns to trust us. 

God is so good. We are so blessed.

Welcome Ainsley Faith Ting. We love you so very much beautiful girl and cannot wait to spend the rest of our lives with you. I can't imagine it any other way.