Adjusting Back Home

We have now been home just over a week and it has been an adjustment with 2 little girls running around. We have all been sick this week so it has been a slow process getting the house back together after being gone for 3 weeks. We finally got Christmas up yesturday and are starting to get into the spirit of christmas. It should be fun this year because we are home and we are all together.

We had a church christmas party on Friday and we had breakfast for the food so they told the children that they could all come in their pj's. When I heard that I had to rush off get the girls new matching christmas pj's (I got them 2 sets so that they could have one for christmas). This was the first time that people in the ward saw Sofi so when we walked in with girls in the same clothes and their hair pulled back most people had to take a double take. They figured out that one was Sofi because both Lee and I had a girl, but they really had to look to tell the difference. It was actually kind of fun. The picture above was taken before we went and Emma did not want her picture taken.

Both girls love books and are always bringing us books to read to them so of course when we got home from the party they brought dad a book and wanted him to read to them.

Our New Addition

I realize I have neglected to post on the blog for a while, but I will do better. As you know we put in our papers to adopt another child. Once we finished that our prayers were answered. About 19 months ago we found out about child and were trying to adopt a little girl from Oklahoma, but due to legal issues we were told it wasn't possible until late Septemeber when we found out that it was a possibility again. It has been a trial getting to this point but we were finally able to bring Sofia home to become part of our family. We spent 3 weeks in Oklahoma and now I am glad to be home.
Sofi is beautiful and looks like she belongs to our family. It is an adjustment for her in her new home but she is doing great with it. Emma is also doing good having a big sister (only by 3 months). I think this is what it is like having twins. The girls play with each other and they also push each other and fight for the same toys. It is going to be a challenge but it is also going to be a blessing.


This is a picture with Sofi the second time we saw her. We had just finished up with the first court appearence and the state was not sure about releasing her to our adoption agency so we had another court appearence the next day. She was tired and hungry and still not quite sure about what was going on. We were able to make her smile a little bit and she did play with the toys with us.




Once we picked up Sofi we decided to go to the park to help her adjust to us a little better. What kid doesn't love to play outside at the park. It was a bit chilly but the girls loved it. They didn't want to go even though they were really cold by the time we left.

We had to get a car seat for Sofi but we kept the box just incase it didn't work out for some reason. The girls loved to play in the box and play peek a boo. It was so cute watching them.

We are so thankful to receive Sofia into our home and have her become part of our family the day before Thanksgiving.