Well it has been months since our last post! I can't believe it has been almost 5 months since we brought our Maycee home! Time is going so fast!! What an incredible journey! It has been hard but fun, difficult yet rewarding. It is days like today that make me just laugh. Her and Nate were looking for "Ompwa's?" Witches in the house and getting them with the paper roll! Jase said "wow, can you even imagine how much her life has changed?" She has opened our eyes to so much! She is bright, the teachers love her at school! She is a firecracker that is for sure! She loves the snow! Nate and Jaycee are getting used to another sister around. Jaycee is loving getting more privileges than Maycee gets because she is "older now". It is fun to watch them all grow!

To those of you embarking on this Journey, we wish you the best! Our love and prayers go out to you. One of the funnest parts of this whole thing it to help other people through our experiences. But then we also get to do it all over again with each of them. The emotional trials, financial strain, and the waiting game is all worth it!! I promise!! What an adventure and what an AMAZING JOURNEY!!

Well everyone, it has been a bit since our last post. Things are defiantly busier than I thought, but they are good! We just got home from Disneyland and our family reunion with Jason's family. It was alot of fun!! We spent time at the beach in Huntington (thanks to our friends for the use of the boards!! They were awesome!). We meet up with the Chapple's and got to spend time with them. They are doing well!! It was so good to see them again, and catch up on our adventures with the girls. At the beach Nate was in the water for almost 3 hours!! HE LOVED IT!! We then got to meet up with our good friends Joe and Laura. We went to a great Mexican restaurant and had a great time catching up with them. It is so nice to have such wonderful friends and family to share time with.

We also got to meet Sabrina. She is the facilitator in CA that does all the communicating between us and Chung Yi. She is a doll! And so sweet!

Maycee did great at Disneyland. We were worried, but she went on every ride that she could. And even went on alot of them 3-4 times!! She even went on the Tower of Terror!! But I would have to say her favorite was It's a Small World! She sang the song at the top of her lungs the whole ride! I guess it is the same in any language.

A few of the pictures we took are our first day at Disneyland, the beach, our family pictures in our awesome t-shirts from Gliffik!, Jaycee and Maycee getting ready for school. (I just loved this one and had to put it in.) and our last day there.....that is the sad one, and the one that looks like everyone is ready to go home. Just really tired. But had a wonderful time!

Overall we are doing well, every day gets better, and it is amazing to see how much she has all ready learned. She is a very smart little girl. Nathan and Jaycee are the biggest help!

We love all of you and want to thank you for all of your love and prayers!

Well we are home!! It has been a few days. We are still adjusting, and I am sure that will take lots of time! I will post some more pictures when we get them downloaded. We were meet at the airport by several family and friends. :) When we were in LAX airport waiting for our flight to SLC, my heart wanted to break for Maycee. She was sitting there saying Ni Hao to everyone she could see. It means hello, and nobody would respond to her. I wanted to cry. It was at this point that she knew she wasn't in her country anymore. Nobody looked like her and nobody spoke like her.

She is doing well, we have about one break down a day, but other than that, she LOVES her sister and brother!! She always counts on her little fingers.....mama, papa, brother, sister, and Maycee!! So she understands that she is part of a family now. We went to the mall today with grandma and grandpa Rowland, she did really well. She even behaved for dinner. That is a first!! She usually thinks dinner time is play time. While we were at dinner she had to go Niao Niao (pee pee) of course. But this time I think it was for a reason. Another angel was sent our way. We were washing her hands and she said xie xie (thank you) to me. The worker standing right there fixing her hair net started to speak to her in Chinese!! She was so shocked and taken back that someone could actually speak to her in her language, that she froze. It was so cool!! I asked the girl to ask her if she could see if she is happy here, and she said that she was!! That was nice. The lady actually was from Taiwan came here 3 years ago. As a matter of fact she was from the same city as Maycee Wen is from. What an awesome thing. She gave us her number and said to call her anytime. She can teach us her language and speak it to Maycee anytime. We were so grateful for this angel today!! We needed her. She told us a well, not to feel bad that we took her from her country, she will be much better here. That made me feel better as well. I actually really miss the Taiwanese people!! We didn't want to say goodbye to Jill and Wen. I was so sad!! They are amazing women, and the people of Taiwan are so wonderful! I ache to go back. I have to say I was so disappointed in LAX with the rude US people. Never a smile, never a thank you, never a "can I help you". In Taiwan, it was always good morning, how can I help you, good evening, always with a bow. So polite and nice!! Of course I wasn't driving though. LOL.

Thanks to all of you for your love, support, prayers, and help! We couldn't have done it with out you!! Much love. The Taylor's.

We will continue to make posts with updates on how things are going here.

Well family and friends, this is the end of this chapter of our Journey. I would say the end of the Journey, but I think it is just beginning. It is our last day in Taipei. So sad, but yet so happy to get home. We miss our kids, and all of you! We got the visa today, so we are cleared to leave the country with our firecracker!!! and I mean firecracker!! Hope you are all ready to meet her! She is really shy at first, then you better watch out, she will explode!! No holding this one back. The pictures are of yesterday outside AIT when we got our clearance from the Embassy! :) Then today after picking up her visa we went to the Zoo (on our own without our guides, and we survived!! They were with the other family today! They are finally picking up their daughter!) We had a great time at the zoo, Jason even found the "POO ART"!! Can't believe the fascination with it here, wait until I show you the toilets. Very interesting!

The panda bears were AMAZING!! Really awesome! We took the MRT home, Taipei's subway of sorts. It was cool, and Maycee thought is was way cool. We missed Jaycee and Nate though. Can't wait to have us all together. We leave tomorrow afternoon Taipei time, and arrive back on Wednesday night. Not looking forward to the flight, and especially customs, nervous for that. That is our last hurdle to reach in LAX getting her into our country now. :) I know it will be fine, we have defiantly felt all of your prayers, and know that the Lord has guided us through this whole thing. What a miracle. I told Jase though that this child birth was not an easy feet. :) She came kicking and screaming that is for sure, but now when she laughs it will make you laugh even harder!! Thanks again to each and everyone of you for ALL of your help! May you be blessed. We love you all, and we will see you on US soil in less than 40 hours!!!

Love you all!!! And again thanks to all of you for your posts, they have helped us get through this. Made us cry, laugh and enjoy the journey even more.

So Monday was a great day! We made wonderful progress, that is until bed time. :) We got up had breakfast, and she eats so good! The hostesses are great to her in the restaurant here in the hotel. We left for AIT at 8:30 AM. Jase gave Maycee a blessing last night, and she was felling better in the morning, fever had broke, but the cough was still around a little bit. So we decided not to go see the Dr. AIT went so smooth. Couldn't believe it! We were done and out of there by 10:30. It takes a half hour to drive there, and then parking. :)

After AIT we went and visited the Temple. Wow what an amazing feeling, just on the grounds. We didn't get to go in, it was closed, and Jill and Wen needed to get back to the hotel for the other family. But is was great to just walk the grounds for a minute. Such peace. We had lunch at Subway of all places. Ready for a change of pace. Maycee ate a whole turkey sandwich. Well her and Jaycee have something in common!! :) Then we went shopping to a "flawless" Jade shop. Very nice things. While we were there Maycee was on a roll, it was like someone slipped her a bag of sugar.....she was like that at AIT as well???? Not the girl I was used to seeing, she was bouncing off the walls! But we had a great time. We got a lot of shopping done! yeah!! After that we went to the 101!! It was way cool, we went up 91 floors!! It is the tallest building in the world! Amazing experience. We spent 2 hours there, and then went out for Mongolian BBQ with the Chapples, Jill, and Wen! We had a blast!!

When we got back to the room, we started making heads or tails of all the suitcases, stuff, and things of Maycee's to bring home. Maycee actually let Jason get her in the tub, wash her hair, and help her get ready for bed, it was nice. She finally has some trust in him. It was hard at first, they have a hard time relating to males, because all the females do the raising in this culture.

When we were getting ready for bed though, she had a melt down. I think it is finally sinking in that she isn't going back to the orphanage, and that she will never see her friends again. She always pretends like she is talking to them on the cell phone. :)

We are excited to be coming home soon, 1 day left here, then we head home on Wednesday!! Ya! Will miss the people here, Jill, Wen, and everything about Taiwan, except for the Stinky Tofu!! But we are excited to get home, and move on to the next chapter of our book. Again love you all, and thanks for the prayers! They are defiantly being answered!

Have not had a chance to download pictures. Sorry hopefully in the am. We are on our way to bed. Things went so smooth at AIT today!! Usually takes 3 hours, and ours was a little over one hour. So thank you for all of your prayers. They are definatly being answered. Maycee is feeling better, not all the way, but is doing a little better, so thank you! I will do a bigger post in the am with pictures. We had a fun, full day! Love you all!!