the day we saw their faces

4:35 pm on May 2, 2011

yes, it's true.
WE GOT OUR REFERRAL!!!


i was gone all morning.
walked in around 11:30 after getting bailey on the bus and checked email for the first time all day.
just "normal" emails.
checked spam...just in case.
i could see there was just 1 in there (i check it pretty often these days)

i clicked it

IT WAS OUR REFERRAL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

only sawyer was home.
i laughed. and cried. and jumped up. and i think i ran around in a couple circles or something.

i couldn't click on it because i knew i wanted pat to be with me.

so, i called him.

he answered.

"we got it!!!" i screeched!!!!

he couldn't believe it.

and then said he had meetings all day followed by a dr appt at 4 pm. he's been pretty sick and getting worse and we need him better to get his shots on wednesday afternoon.

so...here i sit at 4:35 pm...i have yet to see their faces.
i walked around in circles for the 2 hours sawyer napped and before the kids got home from school (sawyer slept GREAT in his big boy bed...by the way...)
helped the kids with homework.
if i hold my hands out, they are shaking. i can not WAIT to see them!!!!
made 2 pans of lasagna...one for this week...one to freeze.

and, now i'm waiting for pat to get home so we can tell the kids.
and open the email together.

AHHHH!!!!!

to be continued....

10:14 pm.

pat got home at 5:21 pm.
i had a headache. the kids were running around the house like banshees. i was DYING to see my boys faces and was ignoring the 4 children running circles around me and i sat on the chair staring out the window willing pat to drive up.

he finally did.

we told the kids.

rebekah took pictures of us opening the email up...

 oh, how i dreamed of this day. even though i had all afternoon to prepare for it, i still had no idea what it would be like. it.was.precious.

THEY are precious!!
we can't show pictures or tell any real details here because they aren't officially OURS...but, let's just say we need to leave the crib up!!!
{and my heart is SO happy about that!!!}
if you see us in person, we will GLADLY show you their faces!

then we brought the kids in and showed THEM their pictures...

i honestly can't remember what they said. or did.
i was just trying to process it all...
i do know they were and are excited!

then we drove around and showed our parents' their next 2 grandsons!

we don't know yet when we will be traveling. we hope to know more by the end of the week!

God is so good.
we are so blessed.