Hurry up and wait

Well on the most important topic, Jon-Michael, we seem to be in the dreaded hurry up and wait scenario. On Wednesday, May 27 we went with our birthmother to her doctor's appointment. Her doctor checked her and told us she was dialated 2 cm and she was 50% effaced. So things are moving and we are getting anxious, we just wish they would move a little faster now that we are in Michigan waiting. We did get to listen to the baby's heartbeat, that was exciting. So for now we are just waiting. Keep us in your prayers.

More Pictures from the Red Wings Game

Stanley Cup Playoffs

Last night we traveled to Detroit and attended the Detroit Red Wings hockey game. As you can imagine hockey is very big in this area. Last year the Detroit Red Wings won the Stanley Cup which it the "Hockey Super Bowl". The Red Wings have been in Detroit for over 80 years and the people here love them.

Last night the Red Wings played the Chicago Blackhawks for game 5 of the Western Conference Championship. Detroit and Chicago are huge rivals because they are so close to each other. Detroit won the game in overtime and it was pandemonium. This was by far the most exciting professional sports game we have ever been to. It was loud; very loud, very high energy and non stop action. The Red Wings will now play the Pittsburg Penquins in a 7 game series for the Stanley Cup Championship. Coincidentally the Red Wings defeated the Penguins to win the Cup last season.

We made it!!

Well, we made it to Michigan. We pulled in to our campsite around 9:00pm Saturday night. We are at Haas Lake Park in New Hudson, Michigan. The RV Park is nice, it has 4 large lakes, several beach areas where we can swim in the lake (the water is still freezing cold here) and a 2 hole golf course which I will be checking out soon. This is a very large RV park and about 85% of the sites are rented out yearround to people who leave their campers here and use it for a getaway. Hopefully we will get our rental car on Tuesday, everthing is closed until then due to the holiday weekend. We are trying to relocate our motorhome to a site on one of the lakes. Well it looks like this is where we will be for the next month so we are getting settled in.

No new information on Jon-Michael. Now that we are here we are really ready for our new baby boy to be born. We are not very far from the hospital so we should have no problems rushing over to the hospital when we need to.

We do have good cell phone signal here and good internet signal so feel free to call us or email us. Right now we are just spending time at the campground waiting for Jon-Michael to be born.

If anyone has visited the Michigan area please give us some suggestions of places we should go. We will be looking for some ideas for day trips while we are waiting.

Made it to Nashville, TN

Hi everyone,
We made the first half of our drive today. We have arrived in Nashville, TN and are staying at the Yogi Bear Jellystone Campground. It has been a long day but it has been good to finally begin this phase of our journey. Tomorrow we will be leaving out early and we anticipate completing our drive to Michigan. We will be traveling through part of the US that we have never been to before so we are excited about seeing all the new terrain. We appreciate the phone calls, emails and words of encouragement. Keep us in your prayers and we will give you another update soon.
Mike, Shellie and Katelyn

Waiting to leave

Journey for Jon-Michael

We’ll be leaving late Friday or early Saturday on our trip to Michigan to adopt our second child! We’re very excited at the opportunity to add a son to our family. Katelyn is especially excited to be a big sister! It’s about 1,100 miles and 16 hours to Michigan, so we’ll spend a lot of time on the road. We’ll travel through Mississippi, Alabama, Tennessee, Kentucky, Indiana and Ohio before we reach our destination outside of Detroit. On our first day, we plan on finding a campground near Nashville and spending the night there in our motorhome. The next day we should arrive in Michigan about eight hours later. Once Jon-Michael is born, we’ll be there for about three weeks before we can head back home. There are a lot of paperwork and court proceedings to go through before we can leave the state. We’re looking forward to getting back with our new addition to our family! Follow this blog for updates on our trip. We’ll try to keep it updated as much as possible!

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