Friday, February 11, 2011

Ellie Pictures

I've spent many hours scouring the yahoo groups of our girl's orphanages hoping to find photos of them that I don't have. Yesterday I was checking Ellie's orphanage group to see if there were any new posts and there was a mom mentioning a picture she posted of her daughter with another little girl and she wanted to know if anyone knew her or who she was. I don't know why but I just knew it was going to be our daughter. This is especially weird since other than occasional visits with her foster family to the orphanage, she spent only about three weeks there total. Sure enough when I clicked on the picture it was her! If the date and time stamp are correct it was taken between our packing for China and leaving for the airport. I then found some other pictures in one of the other albums of the other girl's birthday party. We e-mailed a bit and I found out that they live in our area!






Thursday, February 3, 2011

Happy New Year!

Welcome the Year of the Rabbit! I don't know what this year will bring but I'm sure there will be at least some twists and turns, some good & bad. We have had a big snowstorm this week and Chris was off work for three days so since I hadn't really planned anything we had Chinese takeout for dinner and I read a book to the girls about Chinese New Year. Elizabeth really enjoys learning about her birth country.