Home!!!!!!!!

We are HOME!!!
All three of us are HOME!!!
All seven of us are HOME!!!!!

I can hardly believe it ... STILL!!!
Someone pinch me please :)
THANK YOU Father!!!!

Things are going surprisingly wonderful!!! Ella is doing amazing ... WOW!!! And all of the kids truly are SO sweet with her!! All day today I had to keep telling Bella that Ella is four and does not need to be carried! Faith told me tonight at dinner time, "I like Ella" ... so SWEET!!! And Matteus ... I've lost track of the amount of kisses and hugs he has given Ella!! Yep, he really is a sweetheart ... our sweetheart :) AND Kody ... she makes him laugh and he makes her laugh! It almost seems like she has always been his sister ...

That is a short synopsis of our first day together as a FAMILY OF SEVEN!!! Crazyness ... five children ... I am a MOTHER of FIVE CHILDREN!! Yikes!

The kids did GREAT with grandma and pappa!! My heart was a bit worried of how Kody would be ... and honestly it felt like I wasn't even gone a day! He was so excited to see both Sam and I, and then acted not in a different way than he did previously! I love it, because even now with a new sister, and four other siblings, he does not miss a beat on moving everyone out of the way and quirming/climbing his way on to my lap :) It is such a GIFT that he is SOOOOO SECURE in who he is - a gift that God gave to him (and us) through Heidi and George (and girls)!!

THANK YOU Father!!!!!!!

Our adoption journeys are DONE!!!!!!
ALL of our children are HOME!!!!!!
THANK YOU FATHER!!!!!!!!!!!!!

We truly had a WONDERFUL time in Ghana!!
THANK YOU Father!!!!!!
In some ways my heart already misses Ghana, or maybe it is knowing that I won't be going back for many more years (to lead a mission trip of women ... this is my dream)!!