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This blog began as we documented our adoption of our third child, Caleb. It is now an eclectic journal of our often amusing lifestyle with 4 young children.

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2/6/09

One Year Home! Happy Family Day To Us!

It is so hard to believe, but it has been a full year since Caleb came home. Keith flew back from Guatemala with Caleb on February 6, 2008. We are keeping our celebration today very simple. We are going out to eat and just enjoying the evening together as a family of 6.

Since life got so crazy, so fast a year ago, I thought I would mark today's anniversary by posting some pictures of Keith's pickup trip. A HUGE, HEARTFELT thank you to my mother-in-law, Mary...who took all the pictures and was a huge help for the entire pickup trip. I wasn't able to fly for pickup, but Keith definitely had the best traveling partner ever.

Enjoy these pics. It's amazing to see how small Caleb was. He is such a big boy now!!!

Hanging out at the hotel. Caleb liked to mimic everything Keith did.

That award-winning smile

Caleb was understandably very scared and unhappy at first. But you would never know it from this picture!

Isn't this beautiful?

On the plane home






Warning - pictures of a very large woman!



Homecoming at the airport



Caleb's first carseat experience. As you can tell, he didn't like it!




Looking forward, we are so incredibly blessed to have such a beautiful family. We are looking forward to many, many more Family Day anniversaries!

6 comments:

Sue said...

Happy Family Day to all of you!!!! Isn't it amazing how fast time flies once they are home?!? Enjoy the day! Thanks for sharing the pictures!

Anonymous said...

Kris and Leith, happy family Day. Our MT felt the same when we put her in the car seat at the Chgo airport, her first car ride and she definitely did not like it. Caleb looks so happy on the plane ride, and the whole time, actually! how marvelous. also in the previous post, the pics of caleb and Mariah are adorable. We celebrated family day (low key) recently too. you Sayaxche friend, Ellen

Anonymous said...

ooops. Keith, not Lieth!! Ellen

Faith, Family, Future said...

WOW, I simply can not believe it has already been a year. I remember clicking on your blog to find your announcement that he was home.

I love all the pics. He is such a precious little guy. You are blessed with a beautiful family.

Tammy

Hannah said...

Happy Family day!! I can not believe it has been a year! I never realized until today that Caleb and Sophia came home a month to the day apart. It seemed like he came home SO much earlier than Sophia back then.

I loved seeing all the pictures from his trip with Keith...Love his smile!

veggiemom said...

Happy family day!!! I love the pics (even the "very large woman" with you belly obscured in each and every one). Hope you had a good time celebrating together. :0)


Caleb, 9 1/2 months

Caleb, 9 1/2 months
Here is a great picture of Caleb we took during our visit trip.

Caleb, 4 1/2 months old

Caleb, 4 1/2 months old
This is our favorite picture from the group we received with our referral.