We're going to Taiwan!

We got the call on Monday, January 7th. We will be picking up our baby girl on Tuesday, January 22nd - the day she turns 11 months! We fly out Saturday, January 19th. That gives us 12 days to get everything in order, baby proof, pack and get ourselves to Tawain. It took two days to get flights out (a flight back home was not a problem). We go through LAX and change planes so it's going to be a long day! The flight home is direct so we're happy about that! All three of us are going and we are all excited and nervous. Jeremy and I are nervous about the pick up and transition. Sierra is not and is confident that will all go well. She is nervous that she'll be air sick. Hopefully she'll be ok. She's been on International flights before and she's had some problems but she's decided it will be worth it. We also had to cancel Sierra's birthday party but we will reschedule it for after we get home. We are all so excited that after all of this time Samantha will be coming home!!!!

Here are some photos of Samantha's room, which we just finished last weekend - just before the call came!

This is Samantha's bedroom - finally!! I should add that I did do a few finishing touches after these photos were taken - like cutting the tags off of baskets and hanging stuff! It took forever because I couldn't bring myself to put it together until we knew she was really coming home. Once we got our first decree in December we started really working on the room. You may notice that the curtains do not match the rest of the theme - the blue Noah's ark theme is from when Sierra was a baby. The bright new curtains were chosen by Sierra. She chose the same curtains for her room! She still has the blue curtains that match her Noah's ark theme so these bright curtains are quite a change for her. Their rooms are next to each other so when the doors are open there is a lot of bright cheery color visible! These sister t-shirts were a gift from Kimi's mom, Megan, who will be picking up Kimi the same day we pick up Samantha!

This is the only photo I could find of the "before" photo of Samantha's room. This was taken 1-1/2 years ago when we moved here. Sierra liked the fuzzy wallpaper but still agreed to help us take it down! None of us liked the orange/gold carpet!