We Made It Home!!

OK...first of all let me apologize to all our faithful Adiah followers. I'm one of those people! I left you hanging!! So this will probably be a 2 post catch up so you all know whats been going on around here. I will have to say that jet lag has kicked our tails! So there is my excuse. Anyway, I'm going to begin with our final day in Guangzhou. Before we left for the Consulate appointment we got everyone together for a final group picture. It was bitter sweet though because I will miss these guys! We then went to our swearing ceremony(had to get one more of those in!!) and it was awesome! Very moving and special for all of us. After that we immediately left for the airport to fly out for Beijing. We stayed at an "interesting" airport hotel that sold....ahem....."supplies" right there in the room. Not good. Seeing as how we didn't get to the hotel until midnight we just turned off the lights and pretended we were back in our nice hotel in Guangzhou! Our flight for San Francisco left at 12:40 on Wednesday. Let me say it was a very long flight! Adiah was pretty good the entire time. Didn't really sleep much but tolerated the flight okay. The bad part was our terribly rude flight attendants. But we made it and got through customs and security about 20 minutes before our flight to Dallas took off. The three of us tried to catch some sleep on the last leg of our flight but you know how that goes! Anyway, we arrived at DFW to a crowd of family and friends. I was in awe! I missed my kids so much and tears of joy streamed down my face as we embraced them for the first time in 2 weeks. I loved seeing all of the signs and big hair bows in honor of Adiah! I will never forget that moment!! Thank you to all who came out. Life at home has been crazy! Adiah is having such a hard time adjusting to the time change. I had heard people talk about jet lag but never really knew. Now I know. Its been tough but we're making it. The older kids stayed home from school on Thursday and Friday to hang out with their new sister. They have been so helpful to me! Adiah is warming up to them and to Brian. Which is good!! The night time is the hardest. So if you could pray for some sleep for all of us we would truly appreciate it! I believe that once she trusts us more she will rest. The Lord is faithful and will lead us through this. So here are some pictures and I'll do another post in a second with some other pictures from this week. Once again...sorry for the delay



The night before we left we went to a Thai restaurant in Guangzhou called the Banana Leaf. It was SO good! The guys all got up an joined in with the entertainment.


We went to Lily Harrell's birthday party. Ms. Elissa let Adiah celebrate too!


Our entire group in the lobby of Asia International Hotel.


This is our group that went to Hefei to pick up our daughters. From left to right: us, Amorisa, Bill, XuXu, and Zion Denzel, Eric, Jennifer, and Noelle Johnson



These are our friends Kyle, Elissa, and Lily Harrell. We love you guys!!