The Baby Shower!

How can we express our THANKS to everyone that came to the baby shower yesterday? It is impossible to let everyone know how much we appreciate their time, thoughtfullness, and genuine excitement that they are all sharing with us as we get ready to finally fly to China to get Olivia. All we can say is THANK YOU for sharing this journey with us and THANK YOU for the wonderful gifts we received yesterday. We need and will use everything and got such a nice variety of things....from the car seat, stroller, beautiful soft blankets, clothes, and everything in-between. We are so blessed to have such wonderful caring families, friends and neighbors. Is was great to see family that we are not able to get together with very often.

A special THANK YOU goes out to my Mom and my sisters and their families. They took a lot of time and work to put this shower together. They took care of everything and went ALL OUT on the invitations, gifts, decorating and food. My three neices, Michelle, Kendra and Kaitlyn also helped get things set up yesterday, decorate and help during the shower. I think they had fun too. The boys also helped put the stroller together. It turned out to be a perfect day and so much fun for us. We know they are very busy with their own lives, kids, homes, etc. but they went out of their way to really make this a special day for us. The cake was a great surprise with Olivia's referral picture frosted right in the middle. Thank you so much.

We are still waiting to hear when we will actually be travelling but should find out early this week. Now I really need to organize everything we have, shop for the final touches and start packing for the trip.

Thank you again to my parents, Lynn and Nancy and their families for the baby shower and everyone that came and enjoyed this wonderful day with us. I hope everyone knows how much we really appreciate everything and will remember the kind wishes and prayers from everyone as we make this life-changing journey!!

Stay tuned....Dawn