In Process

So I have come to the conclusion that the grand blog post that I am envisioning to chronicle our adventure just isn't going to happen in one shot. It's going to have to come in installments. This is literally the first time in four days that I have had the chance to hit the blog. Our lives have become a time warp of going potty, eating graham crackers, and throwing temper tantrums (them, not us...we've been pretty close though). This transition has been harder for all of us than we anticipated. Our little ladies are doing much better now (the first few days home were ROUGH ROUGH ROUGH) and both are becoming little baskets of giggles. They both love to call for their Daddy all the time ("Abat! Abat!"). They also love to take baths and splash around in the tub. Junia thinks trying to escape from Mommy as she laughs her head off and runs down the hall naked is a blast. Eden pretty much thinks life revolves around graham crackers. We still can't get them to nap - hence the lack of a blog post and the pooped out Mommy. We are hopeful though that that day will come.

Installment #1 is just pictures for those of you who have been stalking us to get us to get something up on the blog. Sorry this has taken so long. I'll follow this with more about the trip in Installment #2. We spent several days seeing Ethiopia prior to picking the girls up. We also travelled to meet Eden's birthmother and siblings. We look pretty exhausted and dirty in most of these pics, primarily because the girls had gastroenteritis from the day we picked them up. We pretty much spent a week trapped in our guest house covered in barf and diarrhea. Seriously. Good times were had by all. But we survived. As you will see, our little girls are settling in to life in California!