Luke's Shower

Lovely Hostesses - Tana and Jody, wonderful friends and amazing moms I admire.  You completely outdid yourselves girls.  You know I'm emotional, but seriously...this morning meant so much to me!

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We got to have a shower!!! I never expected that we would be so lucky!  There was an amazing group of ladies and daughters there to celebrate with us.  New friends and old, family and neighbors....it was SO FUN!  Here are some of the special people who joined us for the morning:

Tricia and Lauren - Tricia and I have been friends since childhood and we are Lauren's Godparents.

Cheryl and Malea - Cheryl's husband, Chris, and Ron were classmates at SPC.  Cheryl and I became FAST friends.  She's awesome...and so is their daughter Malea, also our Goddaughter.

Betsy, Debbie, and Luke - Betsy and Debbie are Group 91 Moms.  We love them and their families!

Some of the girls from the BW Class of 1993 

Jen and Claire - Jen and I go waaaaay back to the hospital nursery.  Her beautiful daughter, Claire, is the same age as Hope.

Mom and Pastor Carrie - We are loving getting to know our new friend and Pastor! 

Wendy and Hannah - Wendy and I met in a sign language class at SPC in 1996(?).  We've been close friends ever since, have taken family vacations together, and we are also Hannah's Godparents.

Keri is one of my oldest and dearest girlfriends.  We grew up across the street from each other. 

One of my favorite pictures of Hope and Olivia

We'll leave this picture larger because you MUST see all this cuteness.  :)  These are some of the young ladies who were there.

Some of the Group 91 Girls

~ added the moms ~ 

Even though this is blurry, I love the way Hope and Malea are looking at each other.  (God-daughter-sisters)

Perry Girls - Mom and Andria - Love my Mom, and Love my Sister-in-law!

Article 5

Our Article 5 came today. What does that mean, you ask? Well, it is kind of the final piece of the puzzle. The Article 5 relstes to Luke's immigrant visa and is the last piece of approved paperwork we need before the China Center sill issue our travel approval (TA). TA is essentially China's invitation to us to finally go meet our little boy.

"The Adopted Children's Immigrant Visa Unit (ACIVU) at U.S. Consulate General Guangzhou has finished processing your child's Article 5, and your file is ready to be returned to your adoption agency's facilitator today."

Happy 6th Birthday Hope!!!

Guess what beautiful young lady is having a birthday today! I cannot believe at all that our little girl is already celebrating her 6th birthday!  This is the picture Ron sent to me today.  He took the day off to spend it with his special birthday girl.  They went to Madagascar II 3D so I got to see a picture of the glasses.  Hope said she took them off when the cat came off the screen because she was afraid she'd be allergic.  :)

Sad to miss this day with my girl, but we'll celebrate when Mom get's home.  Glad Hope and Daddy had such a special day!!!