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!

http://www.yahoo.americangreetings.com/view.pd?i=260980078&m=6956&rr=y&source=yahoo999

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....


http://www.yahoo.americangreetings.com/view.pd?i=261057925&m=3899&rr=y&source=yahoo999

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:

http://www.msnbc.com/modules/interactive.aspx?type=ss&launch=17187083,17184306&pg=1

Our immediate family

Our Big Day
May 28, 2001

Mom, I know you are with us always....

Our niece Brianna, nephew Jared and their pup "Chayanne"

Mr. Sherlock Frost

Mr. Bellagio Frost













Ms. Cleopatra Frost

Four Generations... Grandma Nannette (Great grandma to Madison), Mom Rhoda (grandma to Madison), Daughter Felicia (Auntie to Madison) and Grandaughter Brianna (big cousin to Madison).. Need to update Brianna's pic though, she's now a young lady....

Chachita y Betito, future abuelitos to Madison

Can I get more love please?? That would be my Joey and my dad Eduardo (Grandpa to Madison)....

Yes, loved by Frost. Here's dad Michael (grandpa to Madison and my Joey....

My sister Milly and brother Willy in their homeland, Barcelona, Spain

My loving nephews made in Barcelona, Spain, Sergi on the left and Willito

My Sister Milly and I in Barcelona

Our niece "Amber" who just turned 3 in January

My two other sisters, Clarita & Charito in NYC

California girl... My cousin Gaby

Part of the Frost/Strong gang.. Jared, dad Michael, Bill, Felicia, Adam, Grandma. Bottom Joey, myself and Brianna...

Mom Rhoda's bday in NYC. Jared, Joey, Felicia, Bill, Adam and Galia engaged to be married, I, Brianna, Mom Rhoda and Grandma (very bottom)... Happy times with the Zweigenbaum/Frost/Strong gang....

TIMELINE

• May 1st, 2006 - We made the most important decision of our lives. We are to welcome a little angel into our lives. We will go as far as possible or reach out our arms to find her. We will adopt from China...
• May 9th, 2006 - We sent our Adoption Application to GWCA.
• May 10th, 2006 - We were approved by GWCA to adopt. Yeah!!!
• May 12th, 2006 - Sent in GWCA contract.
• May 12th, 2006 - My birthday!, we had our homestudy done in our home. Had to leave work rush home and make sure the house was cleaned, Bellagion had not done one of his infamous destructions and that Cleo had not been seating on the chair where Bonnie, our Social Worker, will be seating. Yikes!
• May 17th, 2006 - We mailed in all the documentation requested by our Social Worker, Bonnie, for our Home Study
• June 16th, 2006 - Our Home Study was finalized and sent to Pam, our wonderful Dossier specialist.
• June 19th, 2006 - Sent all dossier documentation to Pam.
• June 21st, 2006 - Sent our I600A to Kathy of our Miami USCIS office
• June 28th, 2006 - Received our fingerprinting appointment for July 5th.
• July 5th, 2006 - Fingerprinting done in Davie, Broward county.
• Aug. 29th, 2006 - Miami USCIS office requested passport copies and changes in the HomeStudy.
• Sept. 8th, 2006 - Got the revised Home Study.
• Sept. 14th, 2006 - Sent revised Home Study and copies of passports to Miami USCIS office.
• Sept. 19th, 2006 - Received our I171H, our authorization by the United States Government to adopt our angel from China... Major milestone in the process...
• Sept. 20th, 2006 - Our dossier was finalized by Pam and sent to GWCA.
• Sept. 29th, 2006 - DTC!!! (Dossier To China) Our dossier was sent to China!!!
• Oct. 26th, 2006 - LID!!! (Logged in Dossier) Our dossier was logged in. Let the countdown begin.... We are officially Paper Pregnant!!! we are done with all the paperwork and now we just have to wait and wait and wait....
• Wait time as per the latest rumors is about 16 to 18 months!!! by calculation, since we were LID Oct 26 then we are to get our referral February or March 2008!!! yikes!!! we are hoping for the best

How it all started... In one of the Wonders of the World!!!

Joey and I met online at love@aol on January 2000 believe it or not but most of you already know that and for the first time in person March 2000 at a Italian restaurant called "Portofino's in Forest Hills, NY (where we are both from). We dated for about six months and in September 2000 we went to Lima, Peru, where I'm originally from, so that he could meet my family. We decided to go to Macchu Picchu the city of the Incas for a couple of days and it's there, to my surprise and joy that he proposed to me. We got married in May 2001 and in July 2002 moved to Pembroke Pines, Florida where we've settled in quiet nicely.

First posting!!! so happy

Well, today we finally decided to start our Blog. Can't lie but from the very first time I heard the word "blog" was intimitated. Here we are.... Will post dates and all the goodies later.