Inspiration for the cake
The cake
Uncle Al
cake at the house
The 2 Grndma's
at dinner
Rachel's godmother Donna
mama & dada
My parents
my brother John & sister in law Michelle
Grandma Rose
The Infante Family
Me & Rach
It's hard to believe that one year ago today Rachel became a U.S. citizen when we landed in Houston. We traveled all day & she was a great traveler.. When we got to the luggage area to meet my mom, aunt & uncle Rachel began to cry uncontrollably & this lasted for about 4 hours. I remember it like it was yesterday... today we calebrated gotcha/homecoming day with dinner & cake at the house. I wanted to keep with the Guatemala theme cake, it isnt what i wanted but it looked good anyway. Dinnner was with Rachel's grandparents & godparents..& them we had cake at the house.. I also had a food basket& dinner sent to Telma, Rach's foster mother on Tuesday, it was a year that she gave Rachel to us forever. Here are some pics.. i realize everything is backwards but oh well...
Saturday, April 25, 2009
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10 comments:
Aaaah! Congrats on one amazing year! She just gets more beautiful every day! Looks like you guys had a great celebration. I LOVE the cake. I have letters just like that.
Congratulations!! It seems time goes by way too fast!
Congratulations on your first Gotcha Day!!! The cake is beautiful and so is Rachel. What a great celebration you had!
Congrats congrats congrats! I remember being with you waiting for you to meet Rachel for the first time...now she has been forever in your arms for a year. AMAZING JOURNEY! She's an amazing little girl, and that cake is too cute! Myla has those letters, too! :)
Congrats !!!Happy gotcha day!!!!
Well, Congrats on your first Gotcha day!!! The cake was great and Rachel was beautiful.. What a beautiful family.. Samuel will fit in just great in about 20 years..LOL..
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Krisit
Happy Gotcha Day! I can't believe it has been a year already!
That is such an adorable cake! I must say that you look beautiful in your pictures :-)
Congrats ! Happy Gotcha Day !! Loved the cake,& the pictures of Rachel,were just beautiful ! It looked like you had a wonderful celebration .
Deb
Hard to believe its already been a year. Remember how long those days were when you were waiting...how we ached to hold these baby girls of ours in our arms...waited for the phone rign...waited for good news on the forums, and here we are a year later and life seems so normal, as if they have been with us all along. Happy you had a wonderful day! She is precious. Susie
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