Home at Last!

Hello friends, family, and followers of our blog,

Yay! We made it home safely after a long, long journey home. We are so grateful for the good health and safe travel that we have had. Thank you all so much for covering our family during this incredible, instense trip to adopt our precious Riley! We loved seeing all of you who were able to come to the airport so late on Wednesday evening. It was wonderful to see all your smiling faces, tears, signs, and waves as we headed down that concourse. It was the most emotional I have been, second to our Gotcha Day experience with Riley. We were overwhelmed with the love you poured out on us. It was wonderful to see our parents, family, friends, all the wonderful teenagers, and our church friends. Thank you Pat Hood for your prayer over our little one! You all revived our weary bodies with your welcome! We love you all and are so blessed by each of you! I wish I had a picture to post of the airport but we didn't get any. There is lots of video, thanks to Jordan Prewitt, so maybe that will be up soon.

Our welcome continued once we arrived home. We were told there were many visitors to our home throughout the day and we could see the evidence of their visits through their signs, decorations, gifts, cards, and yummy food found in our fridge. Every room that we went in had a special gift or card welcoming us home. It was incredible, and once again, we were overwhelmed. Friends and family stayed with us for a couple of hours as we ate and tried to unwind. I bathed Riley and put her to bed around 1:30 am, and the rest of us finally crashed around 3:30 am. It was a wonderful end to a very long day!