Luke Tai .........

Well.....here's my little brother! Welcome to the family, Luke!



Yesterday, when we were on only our sixth waiting day for the PA(pre adoption approval), we got an email from the lady at BAAS(our agency) saying that we got our PA early! So, now it's official. Here is a another picture of my new little sibling!


I'm so excited! After all these years, I FINALLY get a little brother! The funny thing is, I've been on all these little websites where you take care of virtual babies, and now I am going to get to take care of one! A REAL ONE! :) I am so excited!

God bless,
Love, Joy

Faithful Fridays

I know it's late, and I'm really sorry. Thank you to all who did posts!

Ok, for this Faithful Fridays I am soo glad I got my physical for the adoption over and it went fine. I had to get three shots though. :( But they went well. I had been stressing over them, and the nurse gave me some advice. She told me not to tense up, and to look the other way. I did, and the shots went great! The last one was a Tetanus, and it hurt a bit more, but it was ok. It feels like a load off my shoulders to get my physical and my shots all done. I'm so happy!

Please pray that our social worker calls us back. We haven't heard from her in about three days. :( We are really getting anxious and we want to continue the process because, well-we have a referral. That's all I can say right now. We are waiting on approval from the Chinese goverment. I can't wait to post pics! Please keep us in your prayers!

If you participated in Faithful Fridays, let me know in a comment, and I'll stop by and check it out.

God bless,
Love, Joy =D

S.A.D.M Convention

I am SO sorry I didn't do a Faithful Friday's post! Thank you to those who did! I am so tired right now. I just got home from the S.A.D.M convention at a local theatre/auditorium. It was fun! I was in the Junior class. Sadly, my friend Christina wasn't in my class. She was in the class above mine. But, I had other friends. We had a really funny guy for Hip hop which we did twice. He was sooo funny! And he kept our energy up, and at the end of class, he let us do freestyle! It was awesome! S.A.D.M stands for Southern Association of Dance Masters. My Ballet/Lyrical teacher was really nice, too. Then came the Tap. She was funny. Then, there was the Jazz teacher, who was CRAZY! LOL :) All in all, it was a fun, AND tiring day. I'm sprawled out in the floor right now with a blanket.




God bless and enjoy! Sorry for the short post!

Love, Joy

Ten Things and some News

Ten things I love about dance......

The passion: There is so much passion! Rather it be the remembrance of a loved one in a lyrical solo, or the sass of your best friend celebrating her birthday, dance just has so much passion!

The beautifulness: Dance is so pretty! I remember one year at this recital the audience had been very disruptive during all the dances. Well, this beautiful ballerina stepped on stage in pointe shoes, and BAM you could have heard a pindrop it was so quiet and intent! That is the magic of the dance slippers. :)

The peacefulness: When I'm dancing, all my worries melt away......I get happy....quiet, but happy.

The FUN: It's fun and totally awesome! I have been taking dance since I was three years old. This is my seventh year in dance. I could never live without it. I chose it over soccer, acting, modeling, and taekwondo. Yes, I did all these things at one time or another, and I gave them all up because they would interfere with dance. That's how much I love dance.

The creativity: With the right mind, you can make it so indivual and creative and imaginative! I love it! I love making what my teacher calls clumps, patterns, and etc.

The challenge: I like that it's your own challenge, and usually you can set your own goals because your teacher doesn't expect you to be picture perfect. And that's good.

The music: I love music! Me and mom sing in the car! We harmonize(well mom actually does the harmonizing), and we just sing, sing, and sing! One time we were singing QUIETLY for my grandmama, and an old lady called me to her table. She said that she heard singing and lifted up her head thinking who is that? And she saw me and mom! She said we were good and thanks for giving her a smile. It was cool! So, as you can imagine, I get every single song I hear at dance stuck in my head for a week, and mom starts singing it too! LOL :)

The atmosphere: I know this might sound weird, but when I'm in ballet tech, I feel like I'm in the Dega` days, when the teachers were strict, the songs had no words, just melodies, and you felt like a princess! In Jazz and Tap class, I feel like I'm in the sixties......funky music time! In production, since the theme is a spanish, I feel like I'm in the cuban nightclub from I love Lucy, and Ricky Ricardo is standing there singing the music!

The performance: I love the excitement and achieving feel of performing! I have learned that as long as you do your best, you have led a wonderful performance. I will be performing my Jazz/Tap in two recitals this year, solo in one, production in three, and ballet play in three. I'm excited! :) I will also be competing this year which I'm excited about now!



The opportunities: There are so many opportunites! Competions....production...solos, duets, trios, quartets, Russian Nutcracker, or as me and mom call it, Nussian Rutcracker....that is where the news comes in. I tried out for the nutcracker! This was my first year to try out, and I GOT A PART! Yeah, in the world touring real MOWCOW'S RUSSIAN NUTCRACKER BALLET! :) I'm a party guest! I'm soooo excited! :) :D And my "big sister", Frankie is in it too! :0 Haha like my smileys?


Well, thanks for stopping by! I'm slowly getting more and more time, so I'll try to get on blogger land more!

God bless, and give someone a hug today,
Love, Joy =D

Faithful Fridays

Well, I meant to get a post done on Wednesday or Tuesday. But, oh well! :) Sorry! How have you been?

For this Faithful Fridays post, I was going to ask a favor. Can you be praying for my brother? He has the flu. We aren't sure which kind, but he went to the doctor, and they did a flu test and it came back negative, so they treated him for a throat infection. Then, the medication wasn't helping, so he went back in, and they swabbed him again and he had the flu! He feels really bad, and he's had from about one hundred and one to one hundred and four fever, so please pray for him. :) And please pray that we don't get it! :)

If you participated in Faithful Fridays, please let me know in a comment, and I'll stop by! Enjoy the weekend! I know I will!

God bless,
Love, Joy =D

Faithful Fridays

Aha! I got you! I'm on time! Yay! Hee hee...:)
So hi, my blogging friends! I hope you had a wonderful week, and that you will have a wonderful weekend.

Ok, for this Faithful Fridays, I'm thankful that we got good money news! We thought the homestudy would be alot, but guess what! It's not nearly as much...half as much as what we thought we would have to pay. That means, all we have to do is save some money up, which mom figures will be about a month, and while we're doing that, we'll be cleaning the house so that when we do save the money, we can just go ahead and start the homestudy! Aren't moms just wonderful? They're soo smart! :) And dads too, though. As I was typing this, my dad made a cool little laptop station, that was made out of a drummer stool! LOL I love my parents! Ok, now back to the story. Wait-that was the story! :)

And another thing I thought I'd let you know....I think my mom has the ability to know what songs I will dance to, because she guessed that the production number in dance this year would be spanish, and sure enough, It's going to be staged like it's in a Cuban nightclub! I'm sooooo excited!

If you participated in Faithful Fridays, let me know in a comment, and I'll come by to visit you!

God bless,
Love, Joy =D