Happy 1st Birthday Baby Girl!!!

A HUGE thank you to Sarah for putting together a scrapbook card for Sophia's blog! Thank you, you're the best! And a thank you to Miss Judy (Eric's mom) for all of the pictures and videos of Sophia - we played all the video's at her little party this weekend and she was a huge hit! A movie star already. We had a few people over to celebrate Sophia's big day! Although she was not here, having the videos and her pictures everywhere certainly made it feel like she was here in spirit. We kept it very small and invited only those friends and family that had approached us about her birthday as we plan on having a HUGE bash for her 1st in January and didn't want to put pressure on anyone. Lily, Reagan and Vincent came over and they had a blast - I'll post the pics when I can get them downloaded.

It proved to be an emotional weekend, Saturday felt like an out of body experience as I was emotional she was not here but I couldn't stop thinking of her birthmother either and how hard this day must've been for her as well and Sunday, well let's just say the floodgates opened at church the second Pastor George said we will leave a family of 2 and the next time we see the congregation we will be a family of 3 - and yes it would not stop! For veterans day they put on a great tribute to our veterans (there are MANY from our church) and there I am crying my eyes out at America the Beautiful and You're a Grand Ole Flag - Yeah!! I mean I'm patriotic and all but come one, it was a nuts!

We leave in 3 days to start our journey across the world to get Sophia. Next week at this time I will be posting our first picture as a family of 3! I cannot wait!!! Thanks to all for your emails, cards, comments on the blogs, and all the well wishes, we could've have made it through this without each and every one of you!