Olivia with the first and second place winners!

Close-up of Olivia and Hannah! Hannah won over all this year! Yeah Hannah!!

Full view of the beautiful girls! Don't you love the dresses??? I do!!

Our beautiful little Olivia!!

Here is Olivia with Jessi!! Jessi won 2nd overall!! YEAH Jessi! Aren't they beautiful?? Both of these girls are our youth at church, we have some really pretty ones don't we??? Love you both!! By the way, I didn't realize her head bow was that high up, so NO she didn't wear it like that on stage! :)

Our pageant girl!

Olivia was in her first beauty pageant today. There were 11 little girls ages 0-2 in her age group. She didn't win a trophy, but got a certificate for participating!! We are very proud of her, although she had no idea what she was doing!! HAHAHA Next year she will be walking and have hair!! Maybe we can get a trophy then. Oh well, it was a fun thing. Since I was a little girl I was in pageants, so I guess I will continue the tradition and put her in them too, until she tells me she HATES them!! HAHA! Heather took these pictures and I am so glad she did. I was going to have to count on the boys for that and there's no telling what kind of pictures we would have, but thank goodness Heather did. The stage was dark so some of them are hard to see, but it's the best that could be done, so I hope you like them!! Enjoy!

She heard Anthony talking when we walked out and she was looking at him!

In line at the end. The little girl on the left won! She was a cutie!



The full view!! Wasn't she beautiful???

She is official says George Bush!!!

YEAH!! We got our citizenship certificate in the mail today that says that as of August 30, 2007 (Zack's 14th birthday) Olivia Denae-Li Langley is officially a US citizen!! This is a major thing for us and eventually she will realize it too! To see what she was brought out of by the grace of God and what potential she has now, it's just undescribable! She IS a blessed little girl, some say lucky, we say blessed! George Bush sent a letter to her too saying Welcome and tells her that she has all the rights that someone born in this country has now and that he wants her to be a vital part of this country. Yes, it's generic, but it is a letter from the president...I don't have one of those!! HAHAHAHA Anyway, it's official and although we knew it, it just makes our hearts feel at ease to know that NOBODY can come and take her away from us...she is ours FOREVER!!! Praise the Lord!!

See, she's excited and don't know what about really!! :)

She's showing you her certificate!

The letter from George Bush. Zack had to hold her, she tried to wrinkle it and can't have that!!

She bounced herself to sleep!!

I needed to clean the kitchen today because if I didn't, the bugs were going to do it for me....JUST KIDDING, but it was very messy. I even cleaned cabinets, so I was busy. I decided since she would just look at me and cry from the living room that I would put her in her bouncy. Well, she is on meds for her problem and it was getting nap time, but this was just too funny. I saw her and waited until she was actually asleep to take the picture and just as I was about to take the picture, she would slowly bounce again!! IT WAS SOOO FUNNY!! Finally she stopped and I got these pictures. I love pictures like this!

Silly Olivia

She now has a new laugh! She makes this face and blows through her nose so she makes a sound like she can't breathe!! It's the funniest thing!!

She's so beautiful and I love it when she sucks those fingers when she's tired!1

This is her after her new laugh and she thinks she is sooo funny!! I was trying to get her to do it again, but she just laughed! Silly girl!

Our beautiful little girl just playing!

She looks like she's very mischievious in this one, but oh how beautiful is she???

I THOUGHT we were getting tired after the hyperness of the breathing treatment, but as you can tell later, NOPE!!!

I thought this was cute, sitting in the basket the church sent flowers in for her arrival, but....

THIS is sooo cute. I love it! She got out quickly, but I got the picture!!

Nothing but beautiful!!

Smiley girl

I was washing her hair and thought this would be a cute picture...I was right.

She was trying to get the camera, but finally a decent smile..it's been a long time!

Okay, this is AFTER the breathing treatment!! She is like this for about 20-30 min and it is so funny. She puckers her little lips and sucks through her nose and makes a "stuffed nose" sound and she thinks it's so funny!

SHE HATES THE NEBULIZER!!

Just wanted to show you how much she hates her breathing treatments. We have tried every way possible..watching TV, playing with a toy, singing to her, daddy being silly during it...the only way to do this is to hold her down!! We had one WONDERFUL moment today though right after nap...take a look at the last picture!!


I wonder if she will ever like this???

Anthony and I think that she is saying, "NO,NO,NO" during these, it really sounds like that with a Mama in between!

How sweet this is...she slept through the last 2 min or so of the treatment..SOOO nice!

Sick face and pitching a fit!

Aren't those eyes sad?? Her nose is red too from her rubbing it...she hates for snot to run down it!!

Aww so sad.

This is the beginning of a fit because I won't pick her up!! So Ready...

SET.....

GO!! Head back and everything. This has been for 3 days now!!!
For those of you wondering, I did pick her up after I got these pictures!! :) She is getting a little better, but thinks that she's supposed to be with me at all times!!!
Man, it feels good to be loved!!

Update on Olivia

Went to the Dr. and found out that Olivia has Broncholitis. She, like Mary and Molly, is on a nebulizer for a few days. She is also on steriods, antibiotic (because both of her ears are red) and something to dry her up called DAllergy! This morning she is actually talking. We haven't really heard her voice in 2-3 days. She still isn't taking much more than a bottle, but that's okay, she is getting some nutrition and liquids. I laid her down for a nap this morning and she slept IN HER BED for 2 hours!! That's the first time since Sunday night that she slept in her bed. I have been holding her on the couch for the past 2 nights becuase she needs to be propped up. I tried putting the top of her bed up, but she always woke up and she woke up coughing really bad, so I think she felt so bad that she woke up when I wasn't holding her and then got upset so the coughing started. There were a few times I was watching on the monitor and she did wake herself up coughing and it was so sad to see her do that. I guess she knew it was going to hurt becuase she automatically cried BIG alligator tears, made a horrible face and coughed until she was gagging! She hasn't done that so bad this morning. She has had 2 breathing treatments, and oh my goodness it's horrible holding her down...she's is a brut!! I am hoping tomorrow will be even better because she is in a beauty pagent Saturday and her eyes are still kinda "sick" looking. Also, she hasn't smiled much and she HAS to smile...that could make or break us maybe hahaha! Anyway, I think we are getting a little better. Maybe tonight she will sleep in her bed like she has been before she got sick!! PRAY SHE DOES!!

On another note, my youngest Chase, made the basketball team at his middle school. We are so proud of him. He is short, and we all know white men can't jump~ haha, but he made it. He is a GREAT shooter and hustler though. I am glad that he made it because their coach seems to be wonderful, Chase needs to do something like this, and he went to school Monday not feeling good because it was the last day of tryouts!! That's determination.

Oh well. I will post more later. I think she is finished eating her melties and ready to get down now...Until later....

More of FCC campout

Cameron helping Alana make her lantern. He made him and Olivia one too. You paint them and put glow sticks in then and they do glow, it's pretty neat.

This little girl's name is Mae. She is from Olivia's orphanage. IT's really strange because these are the only two from that orphange from around her, that we know of, and there are about 200 in our group, so it's pretty cool!

Alana and Olivia in front of the bonfire. They needed this last year, but this year it was HOT!!!

Julie and Alana on the hayride. Isn't this a great picture?? They look so much alike it's crazy!!

Olivia is tired. It's almost bedtime and we had just gotten off the hayride. Cameron is such a great big brother. This is his favorite thing for her to do with him...lay on his should and be still! It doesn't happen much, her being still I mean, so I had to get a picture of it!! :)

Olivia is sick!

Well, it's been a crazy weekend in our house. It really started last Monday when Cameron called and asked me to come and check him out of school because he had a HORRIBLE cold. His chest, stomach, head, and throat hurt and it burned his nose to breathe, well really he could only breathe through his mouth. He sounded horrible and when he got home he had a 99.7 temp, so...I kept him home Tuesday and took him to the Dr. because I was already taking Chase for a physical for the basketball team. She gave him some meds that cleared him up so fast, he went back to school on Wednesday and I took him off the meds on Sat because it was making his throat so dry that he couldn't get enough of any drink...so now he's better.

Well, Saturday Olivia seemed fine, but Chase started feeling bad. He then started running a 99.7 temp and felt horrible, so I tended to him and started giving him the meds that the Dr. gave Cameron because it was the same symptoms. He stayed home from Church Sunday, which is a BIG deal, all three of my kids hate missing church, but he felt horrible. Well, Sat night Olivia started feeling warm, but I didn't check her temp. She was irritable, but I didn't think anything of it, well Sunday it started. She started with a 100.7 temp, and that is the lowest it has been. I think it got o 99.7 once, but didn't stay there long. Since Sunday night, we have dealt with almost a steady 102 sometimes 102.4. I am alternating Tylenol and Motrin, giving her baths, giving her the meds the Dr. told me to over the counter, I just put a humidifier in her room! She is NOT feeling well. She cries or whimpers all day long, and last night, Sunday night, we were awake every hour on the hour from 1:30-7:00, well, Olivia and I were. Chase went to school and is feeling alot better, thank you God for that! Olivia on the other hand, I am just now able to lay her down for the night and it's 1:32. I propped the head of her bed up and I hope that helps her sleep. She is rattling pretty bad and I heard it in her lungs today. I have no idea what is going on, but I am taking her to the Dr. as soon as they can get me in tomorrow morning. They said they will probably give me a nebulizer for her, but I hope they take an X-Ray of her chest to make sure it's not pneumonia or something. Her mucous is really thick and she is constantly gaging on it. It's really gross, but that's what is going on.

Keep us in your prayers and pray that this household gets better. It's hard on me when more than one is sick, but I am the mommy so I guess I can handle it!! :) I really just hate it when they are like this, I can't fix it on my own and I don't like it. I know they are going to get sick and that's okay, I just hate it when it's in the middle of the night, which is when it always happens, and I have to wait until morning to try to take them somewhere to help them!! Oh well, I have prayed over them so I will just have to let God do what He's best at!! I will try to post what the Dr. says tomorrow!

Here are a few more pics of her NOT sick!! We went to a FCC (Families with Children from China) picnic and here are some pics from there. They loved her, esp the little girls, and she was the youngest there!! Everyone was so pleased at all she is doing and they all thought she was just gorgeous, although some do think that she is mixed, with what they didn't know, but they thinks it's pretty obvious. That's okay, she still my gorgeous little Chinese daughter and we are extremely blessed and honored to have her.

Here are some pics from an FCC (Families with Chinese Children) campout that we went to Saturday. I don't know how many were there, but it was over 100. There were beautiful Chinese girls and boys all over the place! Alana, Sam and Julie were there and some of the friends of Alana's that were in her orphanage! It's really neat to see them all. Johna and her husband are waiting for their second one, but they are contemplating dropping out because they are LATE in 2006 and don't know if they should/can wait that long. That is a prayer concern. God, please show them clearly what they need to do in this situation!! They, along with the other parents, are wonderful parents and it's so good to have a group that we can get together and see all the other little girls where Olivia knows that she's not alone, well her and Alana, and that there are other families blessed with little girls from China too!
Until tomorrow....

Johna had to put her on the ground so that the girls could get as close as possible to her. HAHA

They all wanted to see her.

She stayed in her stroller for a good bit, maybe because it was sooo hot and she could still see everything.

Cameron, Olivia and me on a hayride, with Julie on the side hahaha

Tati and Rose finally get to hold her hands!! They were so excited! Can you believe that Tati is only 4?? She is so big!! All the girls were so beautiful. These are two of Alana's friends!!