Meet McKaden!!!!!!!

She is beautiful!!!! We just got back from the center of adoption where we met McKaden for the first time. What an amazing, overwhelmingly emotional event. We (the 4 couples) got on a bus and headed to the place where we met the orphanage director and filled out quite a bit of paperwork. Then, came the moment we've been planning towards for what seems forever. They brought the babies in quickly one by one. Xin Hong Yi (McKaden) was called and in she came. She has had a long day. We're told the orphanage is about a 6 hour drive. All the babies seemed very quiet and a bit "out of it". None of them cried; they all just kind of confusingly looked us in the eye. We, of course, had a different response. Lori and I were so moved to see her right away. She still had her beautiful hair!!! We were told that it was shaved, but for whatever reason, McKaden was the only one that wasn't. Most of you know Lori's affinity for the color yellow and my affinity for athletics. We were even moved to see she had on a yellow outfit with baseball on it (wrong sport, but we'll let it slide). She let us hold her and take a bunch of pictures of her. McKaden fell asleep on the bus ride back to the hotel and it still napping right now.
There are SO many people that have cared for us and for her; we wish you could be here to share this moment. . .but, I guess we're happy to have the moment alone together as well. Throughout this whole process, God has been honored and glorified in so many ways. We have been moved and greatly impacted by the power of prayer over our lives from so many of you. God has worked in ways of impossibility to see this through. We like to think that McKaden is already impacting the world for Christ, and she can't even speak a word of English yet. . .