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Kathy and Joel & Dolores and Shawn arrived within minutes of each other on Saturday. It was great to see them all! Kathy and Dolores FINALLY got to meet each other! I really has been a long time coming! We were so happy to host this meet up. I would have LOVED to invite all of our bloggy friends, but our house is simply too small!!
This is the dinner table before we sat down. It is already expanded. We have a great conversation before dinner. I was pretty prepared so I was able to join in most of the conversation. Surprisingly enough, we didn't talk too much about adoption at all before dinner. During dinner, adotption did come up - of course, but it was really not the focus of the night. The 6 of us got along swimmingly!
Mark and I LOVE entertaing - we really do!! We are turning into a well oiled machine at it! It is really quite cool! This was the table at the end of the night - I really should have taken a picture of our kitchen!! Note to self - look into getting a dishwasher!! I say that, but our kitchen is too small.

We had some fun with the self-timers on our cameras to take the pictures. I personally LOVE self timers - they really are quite cool when you think about it!



Kathy surprised us with the BEAUTIFUL blanket she made for Pumpkin!! How great is that!! Thank you so much Kathy for the wonderful and thoughtful gift!!
Mark and I are so lucky to have such wonderful people in our lives. Pumpkin is going to be lucky to have these fantastic and thoughtful people in her life!! She is going to have so many 'aunties'. I can't wait for her to be able to share that.