After such a trying week last week it was so nice to go to the airport on Friday night to see my friend Anne come home from Ukraine with her 3 new kids. Anne and I live quite close to each other and she was actually who got me into this in the first place. I didn't know her at the time. She was just a name on a Yahoo group that posted about a hosting program they were planning on participating in, but it has been such a privilege to get to know her. I can't believe I forgot to get one of my traditional pictures of someone's digital camera though! Bummer!
Ira was quite excited to see these three. Every other time we've gone she wants to go, but then just stands there and won't talk to any of them. Anne and Tony also hosted another girl that was from Ira's orphanage so she got to know these three kids a little last fall. Then, as Anne went back to finish up all the paperwork for them, we all Skyped a few times. She was much more chatty with them and, as you can tell from the pictures, was following them around everywhere!
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| Ira giving Heather a hug |
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| Jonathon, Anne, Hyrum and Ira. Heather is behind Hyrum |
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| Shaking Grandpa's hand |
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| More Grandpa handshakes |
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| Jonathon |
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| Hyrum |
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| Heather |
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| Anne and Tony |
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| Faber family (minus 3 of their boys) |
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| There were some better smiles in this one. :) |
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| With Grandma and Grandpa |
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| Again, with the smile thing. |
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| Visiting |
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| Everyone there! |
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| Hyrum was pulling the funniest faces so I had to put all of these on here. |
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| Not sure why the "sad" face. LOL |
As we were waiting for them to come out I happened to look over at some families waiting for missionaries to come home and see my friend, Eleena. That was very cool! She was there waiting to meet her brother-in-law that was already on his mission when she got married last summer. Guess where he was coming from? Russia. Talk about a small world! Eleena and I took turns taking pictures of "the group" so I actually got to be in the group pictures this time. :)
Actually, come to think of it, the group pictures didn't have everyone there because a couple of people showed up not too long after we took this. Including my friend, Nan. The funny thing is that neither Nan, Kerry or I wanted to go home at all. We've all been struggling with our girls and were quite enjoying the time away. We stood there talking for awhile, even after everyone else had left. Nan offered to take me home since I live on the way for her and so Husband took the girls home to get them to bed and the three of us kept chatting away. Before we knew it, it was 2:30 am! It was a good thing I was with Nan because we had a bit of trouble on the way home with the back of her van being open, but we couldn't get it to open ALL the way so we could shut it. With the two of us it was fine, but being on the side of the freeway at 2:30 in the morning by herself wouldn't have been so good. LOL It was a wonderful night/morning though and I really enjoyed it!
Welcome home, Faber's!
