Lydia's Dedication....and pictures!

So, here are the pictures you have all been waiting for! Doug surprised me last Friday with a new computer! A computer that lets us actually access our website! So, we can now put up pictures.

The ones that you see here to the left are pictures from Lydia's dedication. Saturday, January 20th, we met at the church with a group of family and frie (more)...

Welcome To Our Journal

Welcome! We have started to post almost exclusively at our own site, One Blessed Family.

Our journey to Lydia is over. Our lives with her have just begun!

We recently broke the news to our friends and family that we are "expecting" again. Our dossier is waiting for INS approval, and Lord-willing, we will be receiving Samuel into our family early Summer, 2007.

Following are the links to our adoption trip. We traveled from St Louis to Beijing on November 16 and returned home with our Lydia on December 2, 2006.

I hope our experience will be encouraging to anyone considering older child adoption. Lydia is a beautiful person with a wonderful spirit and our lives would truly be incomplete without her.

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If you want more information about our family or about China adoption you can visit us at our website, One Blessed Family.

Thank you,

Doug, Mary, Lydia & Gwen Morris

Our Son Samuel Justice YiShan

Native Name: Chang Yi Shan Birth Date: Sep 18, 04 Birth Place: Changzhou, Jiangsu Referral: Feb 15, 07 Agency: IAAP You can read more about Chang Yi Shan (soon to be Samuel Justice Yi Shan) here at our website.

Personal Information
Doug and Mary Morris
Richland, Missouri
Email: ourblessedfamily@gmail.com