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Lydia's Dedication....and pictures!
January 22, 2007

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 fr (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.

November 16 - Lydia, your family is on the way!!
November 17 - Celebrity Status!
November 18 - I pity the Fu!
November 18 - Travel Plans & Messages
November 19 - T Minus ONE DAY!!!!
November 20 - Sleepless in Nanjing
November 20 - Here we go!
November 20 - Praise God!!!!
November 21 - Life through Lydia's eyes
November 22 - Happy Thanksgiving!
November 23 - Orphanage visit.....and shopping
November 24 - Day of rest
November 25 - Heading to Guangzhou
November 26 - Walmart & The Heavenly Palace
November 27 - Guangzhou.....and headed for Hong Kong
November 28 - Hookin' you up with pictures!
November 29 - Consulate Appointment
November 29 - Goodbye for now....
November 30 - Arrival in Hong Kong
December 1 - Disneyland Hong Kong
December 2 - One journey ends, another begins
December 3 - And we're home!

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
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