Today we got together with some people from our local Chinese Adoption Group, we went to the park and let the kids play at the water park and had a picnic lunch. We had such a great time. For those of you that haven't had the pleasure of adopting a child from China you do not understand the bond you form w/ the families that you travel with. It has been a little hard for us living in FL, while our agency is in MA, so most of my closest friends through our travel group are up North, I talk to them often, but it is very hard to not be able to see them all the time (I have formed some fantastic friendships through our adoptions and I love you all!!). So it is such a wonderful feeling to have found such great friends here locally, actually believe it or not, I kind of stalked both of them through their blogs until we met in person and we have been great friends ever since.... So here are some of the photos from today, we were joined by Jodi, Tom and Rachel, Trish, (Ted had to work), Hailey, Hannah and Taylor....the girls got along very nicely together, although Kaylie has been a bit stand-offish lately w/ a lot of people....still we had a good time and can't wait to get together again.
From left to right: Hailey, Hannah, Taylor, Rachel, Amelia and Kaylie
Hannah and Taylor thought it was pretty funny when the water came back on, but Rachel wanted no part of it. (Kaylie could care less as you could tell...she was cold and just wanted to get out)
Hailey
Rachel spent most of her time attached to her mommy, it's quite funny.
This is what the girls do when they are cold, they lay on the warm concrete.
Yeah, Bubbles!!!
Rachel just sat on the blanket playing with the leaves and grass and dirt....
Amelia was telling Daddy there was a bird in the tree
When it was time to leave we all got hugs and kisses from Hannah, Hailey and Taylor
Taylor just came home in March and she is so sweet....very affectionate...I myself even got a big sloppy cantelope kiss!~!!
3 comments:
We had a BLAST yesterday. and I Love this post... I stole 2 of the pictures off your blog... couldn't resist.. they were awesome... and I only got a few of my little buddah on the blanket!
We had fun too Lori, the pictures are so cute esp of the girls giving hugs and kisses good bye. Lets try to get together a little more often. I bought the same outfits your girls have on in the home page in China a couple of months ago when I was there adopting Taylor. I was going to have the girls wear them Christmas Eve this year. Got caught up on your blog and realized I forgot to do my tag thing, shucks, always so busy. Luv ya, Trish
Lori,
I got your blog from Trish's blog. I wish we could've made it, you all definitely need some boys in that mix. :)
The pics are great and lots of fun! We look forward to meeting up next time with the group.
Ohilda
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