Welcome to Jaden's Journal!

Well, it only took me 5 years, but finally I have the story of our trip to adopt Jaden in bloggy format. We didn't bring along a laptop, but I kept a handwritten journal and of course, we took lots of pics. We laugh now looking back because we were so new to the digital camera age that we took a 35mm camera along as well, just to make sure we didn't somehow screw up and lose all the digital pictures. Luckily, we got home with all of them, though they're not quite the quality we're used to these days.

We began our journey to Jaden back in the summer of 2002, submitted our dossier to China on February 21, 2003 and received our spicy girl's referral on November 17, 2003. We left New Year's Day 2004 on our exciting and life-changing trip and made some precious friends along the way. Happy reading and thanks for stopping by!