Really Rachel!

Thank you most wonderful Popham family for catching this moment! What a priceless gift. We are so thankful for you and our journey together. Huge hugs!

Gotcha Day is certainly a celebration for adoptive families. It's a tradition we chose to include in our family, ensuring to spend the day remembering our China journey as a family. We started our day taking big brothers and sister to school. Rachel and I then went to local photographer to have her "2-year-old" picture taken; figured it a good day every year to have her picture taken for both milestones. In her red polka dot dress, Rachel warmed up for a few smiles and had fun being the star of her own photo session. She's use to a lot of attention albeit she is not sure how to handle it all yet. After that we drove to downtown Dallas to check out The Crow Collection of Asian Art. It was a murky day with lots of low rain clouds and drizzle; exactly like it was this very day in Guanghzhou last year! Exactly. We parked and walked the streets of downtown, which really could have been any major city in the world at that point. The skyscrapers were masked with th...

It's our first mother's day as a family of six; Rachel' first Mother's day! That, alone, is profound. We are forever grateful for those sweet interim mommies who watched over her at Enping SWI. They nurtured this little girl for 14 months awaiting the day she would meet her forever family. And she's here! For us, getting the perfect pictures is, well, impossible, we're happy with what we get; there's always a story in our photos. In this picture, Rachel is shouting "cheese!" with arms open wide as in exclamation. Seems appropriate!