September 2006 Families out of Review!!!

Congratulations to all the September 2006 families who are now out of review!!! you guys made it.. Have a wonderful Holiday Season!!!

That only means we are next!!!!!!!!!!!!!..... yupi!!!! We are still in review so I figure by January we'll be celebrating our graduation to the "Waiting For Referral" room... What a great way to receive the New Year!!! with hope and patience to know our Madison is getting closer to our arms......

Thank you to our Xmas Cybershower buddies...

To Pam and Jeff Campbell, thank you for our beautiful gifts! We loved everything specially the measuring table for the baby where you could point her height as she grows and the best part that you could put a picture of her at that height! awesome! we've never since it before. And thank you for our ladybug, Bellagio had a moment there but we quickly put it away and said "NO" "Not for you" "this one is for Madison" and he just turned his face and laid down, good boy!.. anyway.... I keep going, thank you also for the book, will read it with hubby tonight I promise and also for the bibs, one can not have too many of those. And of course "my" keychain, we quickly drew scissors papers for this one and yes.... I won!!! and the puzzle box... love it! Thank you again and we wish you a wonderful Holiday Season as well...We love Julia too....

HAPPY THANKSGIVINGS DAY!!!

Ok Adam, you could stop now, I need to see what I'm eating.... lol

Steve and Alex are up to something, Amber? any ideas?

Cheers guys, hungry yet?

Grandma looks so pretty, ok. Joey you look handsome too.... love you!

Out of a Home magazine right???

WE ARE THANKFUL TO HAVING SPENT THANKSGIVING WITH FAMILY AND FRIENDS, AFTER ALL THAT'S WHAT'S ALL ABOUT RIGHT??? WE HAD GRANDMA, ADAM, GALIA, DAD FROST, AND OUR VERY GOOD FRIENDS GABY, CARMEN, SUZIE, ALEX, STEVE AND AMBER. WE HAD A REALLY NICE TIME AND THE FOOD, MODESTY APART WAS YUMMY..... Hope everyone else had a great one too.... and yes!!! HAPPY HOLIDAYS TO ALL.....

Love,

Heidy and Joey

We are finally in review!!!

Recibimos el email "Places Everyone" que es "En que lugar estamos" y de acuerdo a este email ahora estamos en el departamento de "Revisiones" ("Review") donde revisas cada documento que hemos enviado en nuestro "dossier"... Es un paso mas que nos acerca a nuestra Madison y un paso menos de espera... Esperemos que para Diciembre ya estemos oficialmente en el departamento de "Referimientos" ("Referrals") donde toman nuestros documentos y buscan a nuestra nina Madison.. Quizas sea el paso mas dificil porque cuando se esta en este nivel no se sabe absolutamente nada hasta el dia que nos llamen a decirnos que nos han encontrado a nuestra bebe.... y la espera se hace mas larga... pero no importa porque sabemos que este ultimo paso nos llevara a nuestra Madison.... Yupi!!!!

We received our "Places Everyone" and according to this latest email we are now in the "REVIEW" room which means our dossier (or adoption documents) are being reviewed by the CCAA officials.... Just one more milestone for us! hopefully they will be done in December and we'll officially be in the "REFERRAL" and final stage. Probably the hardest stage since nothing absolutely nothing happens in between just a very long wait.... but it's ok... we don't mind because we know this is it... Madison will be coming home soon.... YUPI!!!

Happy Halloween!!

Steve and Alex, Joey and I, Justin and Jeannette (Pregnant nun!!!), Lizette and Javi...

Nuestros amigos Lisa y Brian, fue cumpleanos de Brian el mismo dia y le cantamos su Happy Birthday en Ingles y Espanol... el facinado y feliz...
Our friends Lisa and Brian, it was also Brian's bday and we all gave him a little surprise... we all sang to him....in English and Spanish!!! You deserved it Brian, HAPPY BIRTHDAY!

Aqui estamos con Carmen, nuestra "hija de practica", pasamos mucho tiempo con ella y su hermanita Suzie. Son muy especiales para nosotros y las queremos muchisimo. Nos han prometido cuidar a Madison gratis!!!! pero les hare firmar un papel por si acaso se olviden cuando llegue Madison.. jijij.
Here we are with Carmen, our little "practice daughter"...! we spend a lot of time together with her and her sister Suzie our other "practice daughter. They have promised to babysit Madison for FREE!!! But I will get it in writing...

No es que necesitaramos alguna otra razon para celebrar ya que celebrando nuestro LIDversario hubiera sido suficiente pero nunca cae mal reunirse con los amigos para celebrar con mas ganas no?... Este ano nos portamos muy bien por haber sido nuestra primera fiesta de Halloween y se aprende mucho por eso no garantisamos los mismos resultados para el proximo ano...jajajaja... Disfruten las fotos:

MORE PICTURES:

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Not that we needed another excuse to celebrate since the LIDversary should have been enough, we threw a Halloween Party to get together with friends and family.... This year we behaved so the pictures are all g-rated.... But now that we got more trinkets than ever we can't guarantee we'll behave as good next year.... Enjoy...

Happy LIDversary, October 26, 2007 to us!!!!

Increiblemente llego el ano!!! un ano de espera pero no el final.... Realmente si contamos los meses de tramites desde el 12 de Mayo de 2006 que fue que dimos el primer paso es 1 ano y 5 meses.... ufff y todavia nos faltan quizas otro ano mas. Tratando aqui de que no nos desmoronemos de los nervios, las ansias y la pena de no poder tener a nuestra angelito en nuestros brazos seguimos llenando nuestros pensamientos y preocupaciones en esta pagina web... Asi que disfruten y cuentenos que les parece hasta ahora... alguna pregunta??? Nuestros amigo Lisa y Brian celebraron su LIDversario el 19 de Octubre asi que hicimos un pequeno intercambio de regalos y aqui estan las fotos del trajecito de "ladybugs" y un juego de te de porcelana, Mili??? te acuerdas??? tambien con el motivo de "ladybugs" realmente una preciosura. Gracias Lisa y Brian!!!

Incredible, it's been a year of wait but not the end... In reality if we count the months previously to our LID,we started our paperwork the week of May 12, 2006 1 year and 5 months ago! and we'll probably have to wait another year or so. So trying to not to fall apart with nerves, anxities and sadness that we still can't hold our little angel in our arms we keep filling up this space with our thoughts and worries, so please enjoy and let us know what you think.. do you have any questions for us? feel free to ask away....Our friends Lisa and Brian celebrated theirs on October 19, 2007 so we exchanged gifts for the celebration....These are pictures of the beautifl one piece outfit full of ladybugs and a "ladybug" tea set they gave us to mark the date... Thank you Lisa and Brian we love our gifts!...

Cybershower for the "Autumn Angels", Fall 2007

We signed up with this new project for the last three months where we get to send a gift to a family whose name we know and we get to receive another gift from another family whose name we also know,,, It's nice to thank someone by name for a change.... so Thank You to James and Sherri for this beautiful gift. Ladybugs books for Madison.

Last CCAA update

In other words, families with LIDs on and before August 31, 2006 have left the "review room" and now are in the "referral room" which means they are done with the process and now are waiting to get their babies referrals.

Also, families with LIDs on or before November 30, 2005 have now received referrals for their little ones. Congratulations to all of these families...

We are still in the "pending rewiew" stage and it looks like we might be in the "review room" in a couple of months....

CCAA September 9, 2007 announcement

Congratulations to all the July, 2006 LIDs!!! what a milestone... at this pace we should be out of review pretty soon ourselves!!! YUPPY!!!

Introducing the new member of our family RICKY

Ricky was found at by the nurses at my doctor's office. He was wet, cold and very very hungry and thirsty. I only took one look at him to melt my heart and welcome him to the Frost household... He is now 3 months and the healthiest, happiest kitten in Broward county...

Our Secret Buddy Revealed....

We finally know! She's come forward, our Angel Secret Buddy has revealed herself. It is a pleasure to finally introduce our Secret Buddy to all our family and friends, Amy Darlington. Dear Amy, although it was short lived, the Secret Buddy exchange has been one of our best adoption experiences and we thank you from the bottom of our hearts all your beautiful gifts for our Madison as well as those gifts you sent for Bellagio and Cleo. Thank you so much. Here are the last gifts we received from you we can't wait to see Madison play with the ducky on the surf board! and can't wait till we could take her to the beach so she could explore it with all the beach tools you sent her. And the dress and shirt sooo cute....and the butterflies... they'll be part of her room...Thank you thank you!... If you have a website, can you email me?? To everyone else enjoy!

More family friends...

These pictures are recent from a get together we had with our friends Alex, Steve, their little girl and our niece "Amber" and our friends Janet, Justin and their little boy "our nephew" Jonathan... We know each other about 3 years and we've gone through a lot together and we consider each other mucho more than friends, like family... We love you guys!

Here are little princess Amber (4) and our adorable Cars specialist Jonathan (2)

Amber posing with the Romanelli's Justin, Janet and Jonathan

And the Neville's "que bonita familia!"

Thank you Lisa and Brian

My friend Lisa and her husband Brian who are anciously waiting for their little girl as well, suprised us yesterday at the FCC lunch with this beautiful Sign "Madison" and a gorgeous outfit for Madison with little ladybugs all over it....
Thank you Lisa and Brian, you are great friends

Our June Secret Buddy gifts

So happy to show our June Cybershower gifts from our dearest Secret Buddy.... Got a piggy stuffed animal wearing a bib, a butterfly glow in the dark book, a Putumayo CD, maracas and a beautiful card. Thank you SB we love you!!!

PLACES EVERYONE!!!

"Places Everyone" is an email we get every month from our agency GWCA and attaches a list that shows where we stand in comparison to other LIDs. These are all the "Places Everyone" by month that we've received since we got LID Oct. 26, 2006. .... oh yes!!! we became Paper Pregnant on October 26, 2006...

Nov. 7, 2006:

• 73 referrals for dossiers with LID August 24, 2005
• Matching process for dossiers registered through August 25, 2005
• Review process completed for dossiers registered through January 31, 2006.
• Experienced a little over 14 months wait.

Dec. 4, 2006:

• 39 referrals for dossiers with LID August 30 and August 31, 2005. All girls including one set of twins
• Matching process completed for dossiers registered through Sept. 8, 2005
• Review process completed for dossiers registered through January 31, 2006
• Experienced a 15 month wait.

Jan. 5, 2007:

• 24 referrals with LID Sept. 12, 2005.
• Matching process for LID before Sept. 27, 2005
• Review process completed for dossiers before Feb. 2006
• Experienced 16 month referral wait.

Feb. 6, 2007:

• 39 referrals for LID Oct. 10 and Oct 11, 2005. 36 girls and 3 boys
• Matching process completed for dossiers registered before Oct. 13, 2005.
• Review process completed for dossiers registered through March 22, 2006
• Experienced 16 month referral time.

March 8, 2007:

• 33 referrals for LID Oct. 19 and Oct 24, 2005. 32 girls and 1 boy!
• Matching process completed for dossiers registered before Oct. 24, 2005
• Review process completed for dossiers registered through March 31, 2006
• Experienced over 16 months referral time

April 13, 2007:

• 30 referrals for LID on October 26, 2005 (that's the same as ours, minus the one year buuuuuu)... ALL GIRLS!!!!
• Matching process completed for up to Oct. 26, 2005
• Review process completed for dossiers registered through March 31, 2006
• Experienced over 17 month referral time

A video that will touch our hearts forever....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4yHTaxn_aDM

Our Secret Buddy is the best

Our May 2007 SB gifts....

This time we received the most thoughtful gifts ever... A spinner with butterflies and ladybugs (you know us already!), we also got two panda bears, (one of them has music) and then you did no leave out our two babies, "Bellagio" (our yellow lab" and "Cleo" (our cat)... they both got a gift each. Bellagio got a tug of war w/a ladybug which I can't seem to bring myself to give it to him!!! and probably never will, it's just too adorable and a crunchy toy for Cleo which I hide only for her because if Bellagio sees it it will become his.... Just so happy for all our beautiful gifts, thank you our bestest SB... we love you,
Heidy and Joey Frost

Our April 2007 SB gifts

We so appreciate every detail and all the love you put into our gifts!

Thank you much
Heidy and Joey Frost

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As you could see we are greatly enjoying our paper pregnancy looking forward every month to the mail delivery of one more thing to our baby Madison.... These are in order... starting with our March 2007 back to our December 2006 gifts....... eveything we get from our SB is so well thought and the wrapping? what can I tell you we are the luckiest secret buddy buddies!...

De tu hija Milita, Feliz Cumpleanos!

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HAPPY BIRTHDAY... FELIZ CUMPLEANOS MADRE MIA

Estas son las mananitas que cantaba el rey David a las muchachas bonitas se las cantamos aqui... despierta mi bien despierta, mira que ya amanecio... ya los pajarillos cantan la luna ya se metio...
Que linda esta la manana en que vengo a saludarte.....
Feliz cumpleanos Madre Mia en el cielo los angeles cantan....


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HAPPY NEW YEAR 4705!!!

新 年 快 樂

YEAR OF THE PIG...
February 18, 2007 thru March 7, 2007





Chinese New Year starts with the New Moon on the first day of the new year and ends on the full moon 15 days later. The 15th day of the new year is called the Lantern Festival, which is celebrated at night with lantern displays and children carrying lanterns in a parade.
The Chinese calendar is based on a combination of lunar and solar movements. The lunar cycle is about 29.5 days. In order to "catch up" with the solar calendar the Chinese insert an extra month once every few years (seven years out of a 19-yearcycle). This is the same as adding an extra day on leap year. This is why, according to the solar calendar, the Chinese New Year falls on a different date each year.
New Year's Eve and New Year's Day are celebrated as a family affair, a time of reunion and thanksgiving. The celebration was traditionally highlighted with a religious ceremony given in honor of Heaven and Earth, the gods of the household and the family ancestors.
The sacrifice to the ancestors, the most vital of all the rituals, united the living members with those who had passed away. Departed relatives are remembered with great respect because they were responsible for laying the foundations for the fortune and glory of the family.
The presence of the ancestors is acknowledged on New Year's Eve with a dinner arranged for them at the family banquet table. The spirits of the ancestors, together with the living, celebrate the onset of the New Year as one great community. The communal feast called "surrounding the stove" or weilu. It symbolizes family unity and honors the past and present generations. To find out more follow these links:

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