Friends!

We were able to fly to Maryland last week and surprise my friend Dawn at the airport. She flew home from China Thursday evening with their new daughter Joy.  It was fun watching her walk out and see her family and she looked right at me and did not "see" me.  Then she saw Bill and did a double take. And then RAN to me. It was so much fun to surprise her.  We have known their family for 8 years now. We met when we were adopting Abby.  Abby & their daughter Kya were from the same orphanage in Sichuan. We have remained friends ever since.

We had a great time in MD.  We spent a lot of time with them and all of our kids got along great.  It was so nice to just sit outside and watch them play.  It was hard to say goodbye.

Here are some pictures from our trip.  OH, and while we were there, our adoption agency called with GREAT news. Our LOA's arrived. You can see the story on our adoption blog And the Tampa Bay Rays were also in town playing the Baltimore Orioles.  So Bill & the girls went to the baseball game on Friday evening. They had fun. Unfortunately the Rays lost. But they still had fun.

When our families met, Tiff was the only child. Soon we will have added 10 kids to our families. All through adoption.  

Joy. She never stopped smiling

Can't wait to see Hope & Maggie in this photo

 

Little Man

Sunday afternoon, Bill said to me "You're not going to be happy."  (I don't like sentences that start like that).  Then he showed me this picture.

I went to Ethan's room and he was sleeping, on his train table.  He was obviously exhausted.

April 22, 1995

My life changed forever. I became a mom. Tiffani Alexis was born via c-section at 11:09 AM and weighed 8 lbs 9 oz and was 21 inches long.

Happy Birthday  Tiff. We love you so much.
Love,
Mom & Dad

Our first family photo

She is 16....Going on 17......

This song from The Sound Of Music has been stuck in my head for the past 2 weeks.  :-)  All because our princess is 16 and tomorrow she'll be 17.

Happy Easter!

We had a Great Easter Weekend.  We hope that you did too.  Here are 2 photos of our family.  I'll try to update this blog more in a day or two.  We have lots of great photos that we took at the beach on Saturday.

Vacation Pics-Day 5

Today we packed up and headed home. None of us were ready to go.  But we had to.  On our way home we met my brother & his girlfriend at a park for lunch.  It was fun.  Then we had the LONG drive home.  It took forever.  But we finally made it home around 12:30 AM.  It did feel really good to be home.
I hope you have enjoyed our vacation photos.

Atlanta Traffic

Ethan figured out how to keep the headphones on

The DVD player kept the kids busy

Abby very comfortable

Vacation Pics-Day 4 Cont'd

So we let Abby choose something fun to do (Jadyn chose putt-putt, Tiff had an old time photo taken).  So Abby chose mining for gems. And they all got to help.  It was so much fun.  They got to keep all of the gems they found.