Has it really been a YEAR?

Yep - this time last July, we were all 4 sitting on a HUGE plane on our way to China. It is amazing to think back to that day when Randi picked us up at 4'ish AM and we headed to the airport... only to find that our flight to NJ had been cancelled! What a wonderful experience we were about to have -- getting our little Ally. If you want to take a glance back (I have been re-reading Ally's blog for a while now), here is a LINK. Once you get to the "old" blog, you can go to the July link to read more about our trip, if you like!

We have been running as usual. We had a great July 4th with our buddies, the Millers, in Indy. We stayed in a cool hotel that literally had old train cars converted into rooms. The kids thought that was really neat! They were able to run from car to car to "visit". We enjoyed lots of eating and just spending time together and laughing a lot (we always do that well). It is pretty amazing how long we have known one another (since the 1990, when we met at FBC in Conyers -- they weren't even married yet!). Now we have 7 kids between us. Chad said it best when he wrote on their blog... "Who would have ever thought years ago when it was just the four of us that we would be asking for a reservation for 11 in 2008?!?" We did chuckle a few times at some of the looks we got -- as if to say, "those people have too many kids"! Luckily ALL of our kids get along so well and have fun together! What a blessing it was to celebrate our country's freedom with such great friends! And especially nice with our new little Americans!