Pictures from the airport

Coming Home

There are no words to express the relief and excitement that my family is feeling after these last few weeks of ups and downs! The kids are finally home! Trevor and Lindsay put so much blood, sweat, and tears into getting them home and never gave up! They even traveled to Haiti after the earthquake and fought to not only get their kids home, but so many others adoptive parents children too! I am so proud of them! They arrived at the airport with all 5 of them on Monday and we were all there to meet them. It was such a humbling and amazing experience to see them and although tired and overwhelmed, you could see how happy they were to be 'home." Madalyn is 16, Sofie is 6, Sawyer and Gracie are 4, and Kenyon is 14 months and they are all beautiful! I cannot wait to see them again and hug and squeeze them. But for now Trevor and Lindsay have a lot of work to do to get them used to a new life here with them and we will patiently be here waiting! They are so lucky to have parents like Trevor and Lindsay! We love you guys!!!




Here is all of the kids at home on the couch. I think they have already bonded! :)

Christmas

I have to admit that I wasn't too excited about Christmas this last year because Steve had to work on Christmas Eve and it was going to be the first Christmas that we didn't spend it with family. But, it actually turned out to be an awesome Christmas! I decided that we also needed to start some of our own traditions so I did just that. This past Christmas I thought it would be fun to have Nana and Papa Kay over to celebrate with us. It was also the first year that I made a bunch of goodies. They all actually tasted delicious! I was quite proud of my self! I am going to have to make goodies every year. Another tradition we started was reading the Christmas story, (which we also did at my home growing up). I think it is very important that my kids understand the true meaning of Christmas. A few other things we did was read, "Twas the night before Christmas", watch a Christmas movie, and I described the symbolism's we use on Christmas and what they each represent. It was fun for all of us, but we did miss daddy! After we set out the cookies and the water for the reindeer's I tucked the kids into bed and "Santa" got to work! Christmas morning came and daddy got home from work and woke us up and we opened our presents! It was so much fun seeing the looks on the kids faces. Even though Jace didn't know what was going on he was still excited to tear open the wrapping paper and Kennedy was ecstatic about all her presents! All in all it was a great Christmas with just "us"!