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    Hi, my name is Jonni and I am Mommy to Sofia (5 years old) and Samantha (5 years old) and wife to John. We reside in upstate NY. Our daughters are 5 mos. apart in age and a whole lot of fun. Sofia is from Jinchang City, Gansu and she turned 11 mos. during our trip to bring her home from China in 2007. Samantha is 5 mos. older but was our 2nd adoption. She was 3 years, 4 mos. when we brought her home from China in 2009. She is from Yangzhou City, Jiangsu.

    I love blogging about our girls, photography, fonts, printables & crafts and I also have a slightly obsessive John Mayer addiction. Thank you for stopping by. :)

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A New Look

I have been experimenting with some different looks on my blog. I decided to mix it up a little with a “fortune cookie” background. I’m always very conservative when it comes to colors, so hopefully the change will be good…that is at least until I change it again (lol). A girl just can’t change her…

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Lisa. - Jonni-I love the new look! I want to change mine, but so afraid of messing everything up. How do I change my background without throwing everything off? Is it hard?

G & G Hadden - OK, I’ve been a slacker….but…..Holy Cow Batman! I love your blog!
Hugs girly
Gina

Beth and Shayna - What a cute new look to the blog. I always change my mind too and say the same thing, a woman can always change her mind!

a&mg - I just tagged you on my blog…

PromiseKeepersDaughter - Awsome job! I wish I knew how to do that cause I’d be changing mine all the time too.

Mike, Hayley & Piper - You are a blog goddess, I lament often that I am stranded in basic- blog-template-land.

did I miss the ‘how to create a cool blog’ class.

Typical!

Hayley
http://www.thehappyhoppes.blogspot.com/

kerri - Love the look, did one of those cookies’s fortunes say that referral timelines are going to get shorter. My wish for you and all the waiting families.

Ann - Hey you wonderful people…long time no chat…but love ya and love this page!!! You two are awesome!!! Thank goodness for patience huh?!

Take care and think you of lots!!

muahhhhhhh

Ann {Parody}, Tim & kids…

Stacy - GREAT look!! I love it!

Leslie - My vote is yours is the Best Blog out there in Blog Land. You are very bloggy savey. Thank you so much for helping me.

Leslie

T & R McGrath - I love it Jonni, very creative. I wish I had the energy to do that with mine.

Tracy

nikki - Jonni, lovin’ the new look!
I would probably change mine quite often too, just to keep things interesting…if I only knew how!

momladybird - Hi Jonni,

I love the new look! You sound like me i love experimenting with my blog as well!
Have enjoyed my visit please do come and say hello at our Blog

a&mg - I love the new look!! I am so with you on changing it–I get bored with the look of mine so quickly!

Shelly - whoops, that was “free time” not “ree time.” Told you I was still waking up…

Shelly - whew! Your blog woke me right up! I love, love, love it. Our LID is right with yours, and I have a lot of ree time too — soon we’ll be too busy to fuss with our blogs, so I say have at it! Thumbs-up.

Cyndi and Dean James - I love your new blog and it looks great.
Cyndi James
Waiting for Alicyn Shea
LID 10/24/06
http://www.cd2alicyn.com

Maureen - Love the new blog and design!

Dannye - now this is an amazing look!!!

10 Childhood Memories

My friend “A” from The Jade Road tagged me with a meme about 10 childhood memories. Here are 10 of my most vivid memories from being a child. 1. I remember being a child and climbing behind the Christmas tree every year as soon as it was put up. The room would be dark except…

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Look What I Found

I found this adorable video from You Tube on Jenny’s Waiting for Abby blog. How adorable! It is sure to put a smile on your face.

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Roy and Lori - So cute!

Take care guys and have a great night!

a&mg - You are tagged on my blog.

redmaryjanes - My 2 year old is busting up watching that little girl laugh.

T & R McGrath - That is so CUTE!!!! Isn’t it great when babies laugh out loud like that. It makes this whole thing so worth it.

Thanks for sharing.

Tracy

a&mg - That is so awesome. I love when babies laugh like that:)

12 Months Down!

We have been logged in with the CCAA for 1 year as of today. I do not know how much longer the wait is going to stretch, but I am hoping that things pick up soon so we all can leave for China soon and bring our children home.

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Roy and Lori - Congrats on your 1 year anniversary!

That’s terrific guys!

Beth and Shayna - Happy one year to you both sweetie! And great news about the 171H. Enjoy your weekend.

Mindy - please do!! Thanks!

Beckyb - Congrats on one year!!! You should have waited longer now than you have yet to wait – if that makes any sense at all!!! :)

Mindy - Jonni,
Hi! Thanks for your comments, I hope this is the right place. To get my signature in Photoshop I changed the background color to match the background color of my blog. Does that make sense? You can’t do png, cause you’ll get a white background for some reason. Let me know if that helps! Happy scrappin!

redmaryjanes - Fantastic!! Happy 1 Year LIDiversary!

a&mg - Happy One Year, my friend! Hopefully our two year mark will find us very close, if not home, with our little ones!!

nikki - Hey Jonni,
Just gettin’ caught up.
Love the new comforter — you are lucky John lets you have a girlie bedroom — Jay would never go for it! But, it is beautiful!
Congrats on saving money with one freebie!
And, Happy 1 year logged in! YAY!!
That is awesome!

Sandy - Happy one year behind you! Your both that much closer to precious Sofia!

Michele - I hope things speed up for you very soon, I know you are going to be a great mommy :) I can’t wait ot see those 1st pics!

Shelly - You’re on the downhill now, hang in there! Great news about your I-171H renewal.

Maureen - Happy 1 Year!!! So great to share this incredible journey with you!

Dannye - congrats on the 1 yr mark!! such an accomplishment, now if only the referrals would come and quickly!!!

Great News About Renewing Expiring I-171H

I was checking the May 2006 Yahoo DTC board today and noticed that someone posted about not having to pay a fee to renew the I-600A (this is the form you file before you can receive the I-171H). There was a link to the information, so I checked it out and guess what? They were…

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Mark and Rebecca - This was great news!

Stacy - I am so relieved that they did this. Every little bit helps!

Jonni & John - Redmaryjanes,

Yes, I agree. I feel very bad for the people who had to pay while others will not have to.

Hugs,
Jonni

redmaryjanes - That is good news, but a lot of people just sent their money in and I feel bad for them!

Mariah - Spectacular!!!

a&mg - Such great news, I am loving it!!

Melissa O - Good news indeed! Love the new site – looks great!

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