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Monday, June 6, 2011

Together at Last (photos of the airport)

All of these photos were taken by a dear old friend who is not just a fantastic photographer and amazing with kids, she's a fantastic person. Thanks a million Jen! Here's her website if you want to check her out. I highly recommend her both personally and professionally. The lighting in the airport was not too favorable and we were moving around like crazy with her trying to get shots. But she still managed to capture this day for us well and we are so grateful.

Seeing each other for the first time.
Hana is so affectionate! She will hug and kiss anyone who gives her the time of day. She's happy and easy going. She loves her new baby sister so much and has kissed her so many times that Charity is starting to get annoyed.
Her other sisters and her have hit it off incredibly well.
This was my first order of business when we saw these guys. I missed Steve terribly.
Andy has a very calm, quiet personality. But after being home a couple of days, it's obvious to me that yes, he is calm and quiet most of the time, but when we're alone as a family and no cameras are around, he's much more playful and happy than I thought. He just really doesn't seem to like getting his picture taken. At all. And as far as his new brother goes...these boys hit it off on the car ride home from the airport and have been attached at the hip ever since. Jonah finally has his brother and he is in brother heaven. To make it even sweeter, Andy seems genuinely obsessed with Jonah.
I like this one. Someone gave Andy a giant ball of candy to chew on and he quickly got to work on it.
Had to throw in one of our mini-est one. Sucking her fingers just like her mom used to do.
First family photo of the 9 of us. (10 if you count the baby in utero. Had to mention that little guy so you remember why I look so fat in these photos.)
The group that came to welcome them home. Thanks guys!
This was the best day!

6 comments:

Cristin said...

awww, I'm all teary eyed. Those are gorgeous pictures and I'm so happy for all of you!!!!

Alysa . . . . and Reed said...

So so happy for you all! Love all the pictures, ALMOST as good as being there in person! What a big happy family!

Anonymous said...

You are NOT fat!!! I LOVE how this is working out for you all.

Remember how you stopped sucking those two fingers?

Love,
Jeanna

Jen said...

I love the pictures and I love you Amanda!!! ----Jen Tate

Brian and Kamber said...

We're so glad everything worked out well and that Andy and Hana are now with the rest of the family! Love from New York - Brian, Kamber, and the kids.

Emily said...

Great pictures!! It makes me so excited for our big day.