Life is but a journey

Life is but a journey. From one day to the next, we may never know what to expect. Our journey has taken us from being a loving, happy couple to happily awaiting the creation of our family through adoption. We feel blessed to know that in a few short months that Vo Phuc Nhan will change our lives forever by joining our family as Colin Nhan.

We are making the transition from our former blog to blogspot, so that we are able to upload more pictures of this amazing little boy on the site as we travel to his homeland of Vietnam. We'll also be moving our previous journal entries here, so that we don't lose the history of our adoption process.

As our family moves toward becoming complete, we hope to share our journey of faith, hope, love, and patience with you, our family and extended family.

Thank you for being a part of our lives.

Random Thoughts...

It's amazing and wonderful to realize how supportive you, our family and friends, are as we move through this journey. We appreciate your thoughts and prayers as we move through these final months before we travel to meet our little boy. I remain cautiously optimistic that we will travel sometime between December and January.

I've received some wonderful pictures from Rosie when she traveled to pick up her beautiful daughter (and Colin's best buddy) Miri.

You know, I realize I am VERY biased in my opinion...but our little boy is one handsome guy!

In the picture where our little boy is napping, my friend Wendy says he has the lips of a trumpet player. I can again see his Grandpa exclaiming enthusiastically about another generation of Heberligs will blow that horn!

Thirty days have now passed since the DMOJ received the dossier from Colin's care center. So, I hopeful that we'll have no more than another 30 days to wait before we can take the next step forward. We'll keep you posted with any updates we receive.

Until then, here's wishing to the best Christmas present ever!

Happy Birthday Colin Nhan...

Yesterday (in VN) and today (here in the U.S.), our son had his second birthday. Although he is not physically here with us, we are celebrating another year of his life. I'm so excited to know that he will be home to celebrate his 3rd birthday. How appropriate the balloons are!

Yesterday evening, we received an email update from our adoption coordinator. We received our 1st DIA (Department of International Adoption) notice on July 11th. Additionally, the DMOJ received his dossier from the orphanage on July 24th. So, we're making progress! Our adoption coordinator also told us that Colin Nhan really missed his best buddy, Miri, when she left.

Please keep our family in your thoughts and prayers as we continue to wait for time to pass, so that we can travel to VN and bring our son home!