Wises3 in AZ!!!!

Talk about 4 years in the making!!! I got to hang with my Steph!! The Wise family made the LONG trek from San Francisco (basically) to Arizona to visit with family and FRIENDS!!! It was so awesome to get to meet all three of them face to face instead of email to email, Skype to Skype, text to text, blog to blog...you get the drift! Stephanie is one of those people I don't think I could have survived "the wait" without. Her friendship and support was, and still is, immeasurable! To see her, with her precious Zoey in her arms, was so heartwarming for me it's hard to describe!

Stephanie made dinner reservations for us in Prescott. Kailhani and I, along with three other families, drove up on Sunday evening for a meeting/reuniting that was really, really special. Little Zoey got to see two of her Yiyang "sisters" (all three girls were born in the same month and waited in the same orphanage) for the first time since leaving China. Mardi and Stephanie got to see one another for the second time....the first time they met (over three years ago), in Prescott as well, they were just starting their amazing journeys toward motherhood....and now, they stood side by side with their daughter's on their hips sharing stories of their new lives as Mommies!!!!! It was so sweet to see and so amazing to look around the dinner table and think of all that has transpired in all of our lives over the past four years, to see the friendships that have developed, to stare into the faces of four of the most amazing little girls in the world, and to think about how blessed we all are to have gotten to experience the miracle of adoption!

Thanks for setting up dinner Steph, thanks for coming to AZ, thanks for the pics, and THANKS for being my friend! I miss you already! Kisses to you, ZOEY, and Andrew!