2 Years Together-today!!!

2 years ago today, we FINALLY became a family of four.

Tonight's celebratory supper-

Guatemalan food,

start to finish!!!

Happy "Gotcha Day," Ruthie!

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I remember vividly all the emotion surrounding that time.

Searching frantically for airline tickets to Guatemala City

to get there before our foster family went on vacation.

Getting THE LAST AVAILABLE ticket on United before Christmas,

one week before Christmas.

(& wouldn’t you know-God got us a First Class ticket, too!)

For those who don’t know the story,

I went down a week before Christmas hoping I could get our US Embassy appointment moved up to right before the Holiday

-since Ana & Dave were still at home.

Ana & Dave flying in &

Ana meeting her new sister as she walked out of the airport in Guatemala City-

Christmas Eve night, while fireworks lit the night sky!

Only God could arrange something so amazing!!!!

Here are a few pictures from that week I was by myself……

& then-“the fulfillment of all our dreams picture!”-

the one in front of the Christmas Tree in the Guatemala City Marriott.

Taken Christmas Day, 2006.

& because it's my blog.....& I like to tell you more than you probably want to know (Haa! Ha!!!).....................



I went through my old journals today & looked for the date we discovered I was pregnant with Ana. That will be her "Gotcha Day" celebration! August 23. I know the minute I found out she was on her way-I felt she was MINE-so that is a "Gotcha Day," right?

(for more FFF, head over to Sarah's blog. She just got back from a mission trip to Guatemala.)