Adapted from my wife’s blog:

Nicole has been taking our kids to Mandarin classes since January. It has been wonderful to see Emma eager to re-learning her native language. In an effort to teach her English and prepare her for kindergarten this year it has been difficult to maintain her Mandarin language. A friend told [...]

April 1st is no longer “April Fools Day” in our family; it is our daughters “Gotcha Day”!
One year ago today, Nicole and I met our daughter for the first time. We had traveled to Taipei, Taiwan to adopt Szu Yu Chen (Emma Szu Yu). I remember pulling up to the orphanage, stepping out of the [...]

Well it finally snowed in Atlanta yesterday. Emma has been wanting to see snow all winter. Spending her first 4 years in Taiwan…she had never seen snow before. It started snowing after church so the whole way home, she kept telling Nicole …”this is my first time to see the snow”. She was so excited! [...]

On April 1, 2008 our family experienced the joy and priviledge of adoption first hand. Our daughter didn’t arrive the natural way with hospitals, doctors, and labor pains. Instead, Emma entered into our family through foster homes, social workers, and long international flights. However, the desire to adopt a child didn’t begin when we first [...]

Here are some comments that Nicole wrote on her blog…“It is so great to be HOME! We are jet lagged and a wee bit tired but we are really enjoying our selves. Our first two days at home with Emma have gone well. I am amazed at how well she is adapting. I know there [...]

After nearly 30 hours of traveling from Taiwan on Sunday, April 6th we made it home safely very late Sunday night. Emma was so ecstatic to get off the plane and meet her brothers. She was so cute..smiling from ear to ear. We didn’t know what to expect. Actually we thought she would be more [...]

Samuel and Wilson made a sign for Emma to welcome her home. They brought it to the Airport to meet thier new sister.

This picture explains it all! We had the longest flight EVER! We began the morning of April 6th in Taipei around 7:00am to fly back to Georgia. Our flight from Taipei to LAX was long but everything went great. Customs in LAX was a breeze. THEN WE DEALT WITH DELTA!They must be the most incompetant [...]

We had a couple of hours layover in Japan.

Emma and Nicole are waiting to board our plane and head back to the states.