Hi Everone,
We are happy to introduce our new daughter Ruby (Jin Ru) to you! Ruby will be 7 in November, and we hope to bring her home in December, but as always that depends on how quickly China processes our paperwork! Below are a couple of pictures of Ruby as well as a bunch of pictures of our summer so far. We hope this finds everyone well and enjoying the summer!
Warmly,
Mike and Jennifer

Ruby (Jin Ru) 7/30/07. This is our sweet girl at the orphanage in Nanjing. She's now sporting the typical orphanage hair cut which is a bummer b/c she had the loveliest long hair until last month. Ah well, her hair will grow :) Her smile is just wonderful to see though! The picture was taken by another Mom who just adopted Ruby's best friend Emily.

Ruby (Jin Ru) and her best friend Emily (Yong Xi) at the orphanage in Nanjing

We've had a fun but busy summer so far. We started the summer at Spruce Meadows in Calgary which was difficult competition as always, but most of the horses had a very positive competition series there. It's such a fun place for the kids to be too, which I'm thankful for as we're there for almost a month. While we were there one of our mares, Lady, had her second baby. There is a picture below that we took the day after he was born, he looks like a promising baby. After Spruce, we headed back east to Princeton to have a weeks vacation at Granny O's house. It was a very much needed break from the competition circuit and we had a wonderful week there! I was lucky enough to get to spend a lot of time with some of my oldest and best friends as well as my brother and both of my parents. Mike and I got to really relax and unwind which after Spruce was a life saver. Thank you Granny O! You'll see from the pictures that a wonderful time was had by all!