Did you hear?

June 7, 2010 

We received our Letter of Acceptance 

from China!

Since then, we've held it in our hands...

it's been signed...

it's been copied, 

it's been loved and celebrated...

Oh, I feel so fortunate!

June 16, 2010

Financial matters fell into place unexpectedly today...

Visa applications were lovingly completed for our new daughter....

and on the way home

from eating a celebratory dinner...

I realized what today was.

Four years ago today, we lost our baby Anna.

Oh, I just cried and cried the whole way home....

But in the end, 

I feel so blessed.  

I feel I've been given a huge gift.

A gift of a little girl who needs a mommy and a daddy...

and a mommy and a daddy 

who need this little girl. ~

Vacation Situation...

We just came back from another lovely stay at Emerald Isle.  

Oh, it's good to be home, but good gracious that's a beautiful place!  

Add in some friends... old and new.... and a sweet 10 year anniversary re-nup, 

and it was perfect.  

Why do vacations have to fly by?

I'll try to add more pictures throughout the week..... I'm just soooo sleepy.  

But it's a good sleepiness.

A good.... I get to sleep in my own bed with crisp, clean, sand-free sheets complete with kitty cats all around kind of sleepiness.  

But where's the ocean sounds?

~Wonky~ Wednesday!

~GlaSs PiE~

If at first you don't succeed....

Pie...

Pie....

 

Again!!!

Blame it on the antibiotics....

Ok.  Still sick, but ALL this weekend, I've been watching this girl.

You're going to think I'm crazy, and I'm sorry, but she's so funny to me!

Do we all know that I'm a beauty school drop-out?  Yeah.
I used to love makeup.  Oh.  Well.  I still kinda do, but I've semi forgotten how to use it.

Lately, I've been showing up at work with W.A.Y. too much blush on.
Hey Clown-ey!
I attribute this to pour ...nope.... pore..... well, it's on the subject.... poor.... THAT'S IT!... lighting.
eh hem.

Anyway, so this weekend, I was watching my usual crafty stuff, when I saw a video of this girl.  I thought, "Ok, she's a ditz and has to be all of sixteen years old.  What does she know?"  I suffered through the first video, and then watched another and another and another.  Is it the sickness?  I don't know, but she's an actual make-up artist (and she's not sixteen) and I just love her sense of humor!

So just to put it out there.....
This is one of my favorite videos so far.

In other news.... 

I was telling my coworker where I am going on vacation soon, and I said Emerald City..... instead of Emerald Isle.   

WEEEEE'RE Off the see the WIzarD the wonderful wizard of OZ!!!!