February 18, 2009 was our One Year Family Day. We can hardly believe Adelyn has already been here a year. We celebrated with our travel families. Everyone was able to make the trip except for one family. We all decided that Louisville was the most central location for the group. We had a celebration party Saturday with lunch, cake, arts/crafts, music, dancing and just catching up on happenings throughout the past year. We dined at Lynn's Paradise Cafe that evening then came back to the conference room in the hotel for storytime. After breakfast the next morning, we said goodbye to some then swam for a while before checking out. We ate lunch with the Bakers at the North End Cafe before driving home. Adelyn is still talking about her China friends.
We feel so blessed to have such wonderful travel families. It's really interesting that we don't really know alot about each other since we were all so preoccupied with our babies while in China but we feel so close anyway.
All the girls have changed so much and are so happy and expressive now. I tear up when I think about that moment that we all shared with each other as our daughters were handed to us in the large, extremely loud Consulate room. What a frightening day for them. But look at them now.......
Amelie
Cara
Audrey
Grace
Alivia
Emma
Adelyn
Sacha
We had to include this picture 1) because it's so cute and 2) because Audra will be growing up with all these Chinese girls!
1 Year Ago on the Red Couch!
Famous red couch picture (orange in this case) reunited.
Rachel made these awesome photo books of the past year in review for everyone.
Adelyn loved the ladybug hats but decided to skate on them instead. Sorry Tom and Karla!!!
Playing abracadabra with Grace's Mom, Jennifer. Grace gave the girls beautiful handmade bookmarks along with a special book. Thanks, Grace!
Having fun at Lynn's Paradise Cafe!
Daddy having fun too (without the camera).
Brrrrr! Adelyn was shivering but didn't want to get out!
Stretching and bedtime stories
Lil' Buddies huggin' at lunch-getting ready to say bye-bye.
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2 comments:
We had so much fun this weekend - Thanks for all your work planning it. Audrey is talking about Adelyn more than ever since we got home. I think she misses her! The Bakers
Congratulations on your 1 year anniversary!It's absolutely wonderful! Loved the sunglasses!!
Kim W.
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