Friday, 19 June 2009
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Reunion
We were blessed to have a family that we adopted with come to visit for a few days. We traveled with Alissa to Liberia when she adopted her Liberian cuties, Bo and Mattie. They made the long trip down from Michigan so that we could meet her husband, Scott, and their other three children, Caleb, Ethan and Aryn and Alissa's sister, Aliya. We crammed a whole lot of fun into their Monday through Friday visit and realized last night that it was two years ago to the day that we all landed home from Africa with our new children! The first morning that they were here we swam and played outside. Here is a sample of the slip and slide fun.
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Later in the day we went berry picking; blueberries and raspberries were ready at the farm. Here's Julia cramming them in as fast as she could fill her little hands.
Elijah refused to even try them, but he always enjoys being outside.
On Wednesday, we spent a long day in DC with another family that adopted at the same time. They adopted their tenth child, named Gabriel; so between the three families we had 25 children! Here are just the kids, except for my Gabriel who had to work.
Here are the three Mommies with just our Liberian adoptees; (we had to be in the picture as two of them wouldn't stand on their own!) As we walked away from taking this picture, I observed a lot of staring faces.
Here's our crew at the food court between Smithsonians. Again, we attracted a bit of attention.
Elijah was thrilled with the lit up Exit sign at the Smithsonian. He's still easy to make happy.
Lastly, I snapped this picture of Caleb and Ben as we were walking along the National Mall. I just think it's cute.
I'll continue tomorrow. By the way, my Dad comes into town tomorrow and JD's Mom, sister and brother-in-law show up on Sunday. We are in the midst of our company run and thankful that people are willing to come to our sometimes crazy house!
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Comments (3)
What FUN!! I wish we had contact with big families in person, especially ones who've adopted from Liberia. Unfortunately we only know a few via e-mail, which doesn't do a whole lot sometimes, and doesn't let the kids get to know anyone with a similar background.
I love the picture of just the kids, in our area that not 3 families of kids, that's a couple of classes in school!
Tying not to be jealous, can you tell?! :o)
~Elizabeth
You guys looked like you were having a great time! Makes me wish I could come visit as well! LOL
looks like y'all are having a great time. miss you. call me when you get a free moment!