Journey to JADE

This is our incredible journey to adopt our daughter You Fu Rong from Youyang China. We call her Jade. She has been living in the Youyang Childrens Welfare Institue with wonderful caregivers. We could not have gone through this journey without all the faith and prayers of family and friends and welcome you to join with us in China as we bring her home to her forever family. "The Lord had one great things for us, and we are filled with joy". Psalm 126:3

Sunday, February 15, 2009

Hey everyone!! Sorry its been so long (my mom has been a LITTLE busy lately)! Well, lets just get you up to speed. Jades transition to our life has been really smooth and her outspoken personality fits in perfectly. WOW! There is so much we haven't written about I don't even know where to start! Ok so I don't remember everything that happened, but I will just start with last summer. Last summer we decided to go up to one of our friends cabins up in Canada for about a week. We had just gotten a new car and we drove the long drive to Alberta. The day after we got there we were having a tour of the property on fourwheelers. It had rained the past couple of days, so it was pretty muddy! We came to a REALLY steep hill and it was really scary to go down. Dan, Marcus, and Libby went down first, then Dad and Kyle, then Heather, Jacob and I (Bailey), then it was Mom and Landon's turn. They were coming down the hill when the fourwheeler tipped over on top of Mom and Landon. Everyone jumped off of their fourwheelers and Dan and Dad rolled it off of Mom and Landon. It was really scary, there were a lot of tears, and we didn't know what to do. Landon seemed to be fine, having only a few scratches. But Mom wasn't looking too good. We had no idea what to do next. We were in the middle of nowhere, an hour away from the nearest town. Then we realized that there was a Mormon camp not to far away, so Dan went to see if they had a doctor. A few minutes later Dan came back with like, 2 doctors dressed like Nephi. My Mom said she thought she was in heaven or something because there were people dressed like Nephi and we were singing Christmas songs to keep the kids calmed down. The doctors gave her some morphine and layed her in a foam filled trailer. Then they took her to the car on fourwheelers, and my dad drove her to the nearest hospital. All of us kids were stuck at the cabin and we didn't know what to do with ourselves. We were worried sick and we couldn't wait for Mom to come home from the hospital. The next day we went to the hospital to pick her up. Since there wasn't a shower at the cabin, we all took quick showers before we left the hospital. The next few days were really rough! Mom had broken her collar bone, and her toe, and had a compound dislocation to her left thumb. It was really hard for her to get around and even painful to move at times. A few days later we found out that one of the men that had helped us had been my Dad's mission companion. So we journeyed out to there home to say hello and planed to go out and have some fun while we were still in the area. After Canada my we were sitting at home when some of the guys in our ward came by with a fourwheeler and asked if Mom wanted a ride. Then Mom went to see one of the doctors in our ward, Dr. Watsom. Two surgeries later, and a lot of down time, Mom is finally back to (almost) new.

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