How Time Flies!!

Can you believe one year ago today we left for China to pick up Ella.  We have been doing some reminiscing since Ella’s 4 year birthday is coming up and that very same day we signed the adoption  papers in China.  So as we reminisce we will be telling some stories of our china adventure as well as Ella’s first year with us.  

Of course we were very excited but yet we remember back when we left our other kids here with the Grandma’s that we were also very sad to leave them.

Family picture before we left.

As I am typing here we would have been in the airplane 10 hours now and about 3 more hours to go.

At about 3:00 P.M. China time we landed in Beijing and was walking down the row of people in the concourse of the airport looking for the sign that had our names on it.  But we didn’t see it.  We must have missed it, so we looked again, and again, and again, but nothing.  So we sat down to think about what we should do.  Where is Joy our guide?  Do we have a phone number to call?  Is this really how our adventures in China is going to start out?                 View from our hotel in Beijing.

 

So Jeff decided to walk down the concourse again.  Maybe she was late getting here?  Maybe she was stuck in traffic?  Do they even have traffic here?  (ha ha ha ha ha ha ha)  Sorry I just had to laugh at that question.  Compared to China our traffic is a walk in the park.  Then Jeff see’s this little Chinese lady who looks like she is looking for some one.  As her eye’s meet Jeff’s eye’s she quickly holds up the sign with our names on it.  Her name is Joy and it was a joy to see her.

View from our hotel in Beijing.

Our little Glory Girl is 7 years old.

September 17, 2003

 

September 17, 2010

 

 

We love you Gloria,

 

Mommy and Daddy

Has it been 12 Years?

 

On September 12th we celebrated our 12th year of marriage……………. with our girls.  The past couple years we have decided to do something a little bit different to celebrated the beginning of our family.  Instead of making reservations at a restaurant for two it was “reservations for five with a booster seat please”. 

 

 

But of course before we went we all sat down and watched our wedding video.  I do have to confess that we only watched the singing  parts and “THE KISS”.  We fast forward through the minister talking (he was quite long winded).  It was fun watching the girls get dressed up to go to a fancy restaurant by the sea.  They were so excited to go on a date with mommy and daddy for a romantic dinner, where they can order anything they wanted and they can have steamed clams as an appetizer.  I think I only got one clam out of the whole pile, I guess I wasn’t fast enough.

 

 

But I think what was almost as fun as watching our girls is watching all the other people in the restaurant watch us come in.  I knew what they were thinking, actually I should say I knew what the men were thinking.  “Oh great, there goes our quiet dinner.”  But the women will smile and say “now isn’t that adorable?”  And we would have to agree with them.

 

 

 

 

In His Grip,

Jeff and Rebecca