They made it to China!

Hi! This is Diana...online adoption mama friend of Sindy's. They made it to China but do not have access to their blog or Facebook. I offered to post here for them. This is what she posted on her Shutterfly journal, which can be reached at http://katherinesjourneyhome.shutterfly.com/

We've made it to Hangzhou!!!

December 5, 2009

We are very excited to be here in China again. This province is very beautiful they specialize in agriculture in Hangzhou, we saw many acres of Bonsai plants and trees. Very different from Changsha. Our hotel the Lakeview is on the lake. Last night we ventured out a bit and found a huge Walmart like store we liked. We got two bags of food and treats for a total of 10.00non and Sharaleen and Shannon I even found some cute stickers. It's morning time here and we get to go the the buffet. Sounds yummy. We have really just snacked the last few days. I will type more tonight, We do not have access to Blogger or Facebook here.

Love,

Kelly and Sindy

By Sindy O at 4:21pm

On Our Way To Hangzhou!!!

We've spent the day in Seoul Korea at the airport. We managed to find a Starbucks. It's amazing how beautiful and clean this airport is. It puts our US airports to shame. Asiana Airlines was fantastic for flying coach the service was amazing. Kelly and I are really missing you Allison and we love you to pieces. We will try our best to get the photos posted for you all on Monday. Thanks for the comments, we are loving to read them. I will post more from China. I cant believe in just a few days we will have our little girl and Allie's Sister.
Much Love, Kelly and Sindy....
P.S. THANKS TO EVERYONE IN OUR LIFES FOR ALL THE LOVE AND SUPPORT TO GET WHERE WERE AT TODAY!!!

We made it to Los Angeles!!!!

Sorry for being such a lousy blogger!! But the day has finally come and we are sitting as I type in Lax... We are flying Asiana to Seoul Korean and then Hangzhou China..We get in on Saturday and have a day and a half to relax. We will get Katie on Monday in China. I dont know what time that will be. We are very excited about becoming a family of four. Allison knows that she will a big sister to Katie and she cant wait. Thanks for making the last year bearable for our family. We are looking forward to the comments!!! It makes us a feel a bit like home. Please pray that Katie will adjust and not mourn too much.

We will have Shutterfly as a back up...http://katherinesjourneyhome@shutterfly.com

Love, The Ost Family

Were Going To China/ Halloween/ Allie 3rd B-Day Party!

Hello everyone!! I hope this blog post finds everyone happy & healthy! We have had alot going on the last few weeks. Last weekend was Halloween, Allie had two of her friends over to spend

the night, eat dinner and we went out Trick O Treating. What we noticed was there was not too many families opening their doors for candy this year. It's very sad how hard this economy has been hit. But they still managed to get alot of stash. The next morning the girls all woke up, I fixed them pancakes, they played and we got ready to head over to "As You Wish"..it's a pottery place where the kids could pick out a piece of pottery and paint it. Allie had about 15 kids attend her birthday party, they had cupcakes and goodie bags. I think they all had a good time. After the party we took Allie and Grandma to the Cracker Barell for dinner. Allie loves this place..... We had to have Allie's party early this year as her birthday is close to Thanksgiving. And we knew we would be traveling around her birthday. Fast foward to Thursday 11/5/09 It was

about 8:00pm, I got on the computer and saw their was a message from my amazing China Coordinator. " It said that our TRAVEL APPROVAL LEFT CHINA AND WOULD BE AT OUR AGENCY ON MONDAY 11/09/09." I called and spoke with Sue Sorrels and she has placed our seats on hold. We asked for a consulate appointment of 12/15/09. Yesterday I recieved another email with our Tentative dates. We will leave 12/03/09 and will return on 12/19/09 same exact day of the month we returned with Allie. I will try and post on this blog from China but I'm not sure it will work. So I will have another website running as a back up and will put a link up on this blog.

09/12/09 Our Family Shower! Thanks Cuz!!

Bubby Debbie came in from Tuscon

Our friends Chris and Beth Calkins.

Thank you Julie for everything!! I love you very much!!

I cant wait to see the girls in these next yr.

Matching dresses from Hawaii!

They will have a blast on this!!

"I cant believe Allie is a big sister"

The girls will have a blast with this tea set!

These will come in handy!

Another family shot!

Daddy, Mommy, and Sister Allie.

The Potato and spoon game. Kids had alot of fun with this.

Christy, Kathy Jo, Hope, Selina, and I.

My friend Cindy helping with the limbo game.

The kids getting ready to play limbo

Our friends the Pearlman's

Haylee, Allie, and Leah having fun!

Cousin's Rueben and Tonia from California

Our friends Jackie and Jude

This beautiful train was made by Aunt Selina

Cousin Rueben, Allie, Daddy, Debbie, and Cousin Tonia

Me, Debbie and Cousin Tonia, the night before!

Pics from Sept and Oct 2009

"Happy sixth birthday Leah"

"Happy birthday fifth birthday Bryson"

" Calling Doctors Bryson and Allie"

Allie and Rachel after a long day at the mall!

"Maggie caught in the act"

Allie loves to watch Iowa football with Daddy.

Miss Maggie in bed with her BFF Allie.

Bryson and Allie such a cute little pair.

Happy Forever Family Day Allie #2

What number is this Daddy??

Were expecting our TA soon!!!!

Golly Miss Molly, it's been a very long while since my last post and lots been happening. This will be a post about what we've been up to the last 5 weeks or so. We celebrated our birthdays, anniversary,metcha day and our I800 was approved this all took place in the first few weeks of September. My cousin Julie hosted a family shower that was fabulous and about 40-something friends and family were there. Miss Katie recieved some beautiful gifts. Allie has had several play dates in between and so has mommy. I've spent alot of Saturday nights with my friend Shannon and we've scrapped till all hours. We attended a scrapbook convention last week and bought some amazing things. For all you scrappers out there, Cricut came out with a new cartridge called Pagoda it's all asian and a must for us with asian kids :-). This last weekend we went to two birthday parties for a few of Allie's good friends and she had so much fun. Today I will be getting her party invites in the mail for her third birthday. We have chosen a place called " As You Wish" The kids will paint pottery pieces they pick out. Something different. We should be recieving our TA by the end of the month. We cant wait to bring Katie home. I can honestly say that having Allie home has made this wait much more bearable. We've started our flu season around here already, and I was the first to catch it. I hope it goes away by Friday so I can get my flu mist.

Check us out on Rumor Queen we made the front page!! Yippee!!! I said that I wouldn't post there till we were waiting for TA. I hope to stop by all your blogs soon. Sorry it's been so long, but your always in my thoughts and prayers.