Our Welcome Home

This is a catch up post.  I wanted to show you the wonderful welcome we received when we pulled up to our house.  Special thanks goes out to our community and also to a new community of friends in Indiana, ones we have never met. THANK YOU to Toria and her friends, who supported our adoption fundraising in amazing ways and sent us this HUGE sign to welcome Simon home.  It is still hanging outside our house.  You can see it from a very busy street and I have already had many wonderful comments about it!  It will be sad when we finally have to take it down!

Madi and Ishmael were very excited to see one another!

Daddy, getting Simon out of the car

We were trying to get a good family photo in front of the sign...but we failed!

here is a look at community...everybody came outside, the neighbors came over and we hung out and stared at Simon :)

Daniel was VERY excited to have his photo taken

IT felt good to be home with our peeps, and even better having all our luggage carried in by other people!  I LOVE community!

the entryway was all decorated

community wipe board had our names!

each wall on the way up to our apartment had pictures from our trip.

and sayings for us to celebrate!

Mickie and all the other kids drew Simon and Ishmael and us pictures...I will save those!

Welcome to the BOLIVAR HOUSE!!  Welcome HOME!

we first made this sign for Sam's homecoming, I don't feel it as much as I used to, so that is really good.  

They even framed some photos for us!

and gave us balloons and flowers.  The last thing they did which was not pictured was clean our place and fill our fridge with food.  THANK YOU to our community.  Have I mentioned I LOVE living in community? :)

Madi holds Simon for the first time.  Meet our favorite babysitter!

The boys got cuddly on the couch