Ni Hao, Y'all from Beijing!

Ni Hao, y'all! It's 4:00am Saturday morning here in Beijing. We made it to our hotel around 8:00pm last night. Our sweet guide, Heidi, met us at the airport and took over from there. Boy, was I glad to see her! 

We were all exhausted when we arrived at our hotel and we all took showers and crashed. The rest of my crew is still snoring. 

My observations about China so far...

There are people EVERYWHERE! And traffic laws are actually just a suggestion. It seemed like chaos when we were driving to our hotel yesterday, but somehow, they make it all work. They use their horns, A LOT. The people who ride bikes and mopeds, I'm convinced, are the bravest people on earth! 

As we got to our room, we look out the window and see a lady bathing her daughter on the sidewalk. We looked a little further over and see a lady washing her hair in a parking lot. It doesn't take long to realize how incredibly spoiled we Americans are. The things that we take for granted arereally sad to me.

Today, we will meet our guide, Helen, at 10:00. We will tour The Forbidden City, which is the smack-dab center of town. (Heidi told us that the city is designed in 6 circles. The first circle is Forbidden City). Then we will eat lunch and go on to do a Hutong Tour (I'm looking forward to this...google it :)) 

It is H-O-T here. The temperature and humidity is about the same as in Southeast Alabama, but there is NO air movement and the smog and incessant cigarette smoke just make it feel hotter. 

We had to remind princess EG that we aren't in America and everybody doesn't keep their AC on 68 all year long ;) 

(I do wish I had my little "face fan" here with me, though). 

My prayer for the next two days is that we can learn a lot about Sadie's culture that we can share with her and that we can enjoy and soak up our last days as a family of 4!  Big, big, wonderful changes are coming for our family. 

Here's a few pics from our travels yesterday and one of the view from our hotel room in Beijing. Hopefully many more pics to come soon!

We pulled EG's tooth in the airport in Atlanta :)

On board the "big plane" headed to Beijing. 

Our view from our hotel in Beijing. See the smog? 

4:00am view from our hotel. 

China Bound!

And...we're off! 

All of the paperwork, prayers and preparation have all come down to this day; the day that we have longed for for almost one year! It still seems unreal that we will meet Sadie in just a few days. 

We ask that you continue to pray for her. Everything that she knows is about to change. We pray that her brave little heart would be comforted by the Spirit as her world is turned upside down.

The song lyrics, "who makes the orphan a son and daughter? The KING OF GLORY! The KING OF GLORY!" keeps running through my head. This is AMAZING GRACE! And we are praising Him for all that He has done! 

NOTHING is Impossible with God

It is with OVER THE TOP excitement that I can say that THE MOBLEYS ARE GOING TO CHINA!!!!!

We got the official email this morning confirming our "Gotcha Day" for July 21!!!! This is the day that Sadie will be in our arms forever!!!! 

The little nudge from God to call up another "China Adoption Mom" over a year ago has brought is here! We are overjoyed and still kind of in awe at how The Lord has moved and worked to make this happen. We have been stretched as a family and as individuals throughout this process but it has all been necessary to prepare us for our little princess that God has CHOSEN and placed in our family. We can't wait to meet her. We can't wait to show her what love feels like. We can't wait for her to realize that we are her Baba and Mama FOREVER. 

Thank you seems so inadequate for what so many of you have done to make this happen. It's because of you opening your hearts to this precious baby girl that we are able to do this. You have truly been the hands and feet of Christ and we are truly humbled and forever grateful. 

Now, we shall...