Our Adoption Story

Welcome to our adoption story, which officially begins when we jet off to the Ukraine to meet our daughter, Elizabeth Marie, on Oct. 15th 2005. We hope to keep our family and friends up to date with our daily activities through this blog (stands for web log). We are very blessed to have wonderful support systems...our loving family, friends, and our church family. We want to thank everyone for their prayers and concerns since we began this process in August, 2004 and as we continue our journey.

Friday, December 30, 2005

A Visit to Aunt Debbie's house

Today we went with GrandMary, Aunt Holly and Aunt Karen to visit my Aunt Debbie and her kids Jessie and Joe, in Columbia. We had a great visit and enjoyed a wonderful meal :-)

All dressed up and looking so cute!!! This outfit and shoes were given to Elizabeth by (aunt) Traci...too sweet!!!

When the cat got tired of Elizabeth, she knew exactly where to hide so Elizabeth couldn't get her...it's funny because if you look closely at the cat, she is sticking her tongue out at Elizabeth, ha!

This is a cute cat toy that is remote control and Elizabeth loved to play with it...hum...am I going to have to start looking in the pet section when looking for toys for her? LOL!

Karen and Elizabeth playing with the cats' toy, while Jessie and her cat watch :-)

Elizabeth and Jessie with Jessie's cat. Jessie's cat was very tolerant of Elizabeth, while she chased her around the house, lol!

Elizabeth with cousin Joe and their cat...she just loves cats!!

Wednesday, December 28, 2005

For Christmas GrandMary and Papa got Elizabeth a doll that looks like her...the "Elizabeth" doll...isn't that sweet? She just loves her doll! Her head, hands and feet are made of porcelain so we have to be careful with her.

Elizabeth pointing to her new "Elizabeth" dolls' eyes (She can say 'eye' now, :-)

Elizabeth taking care of her doll in the new stroller she got for Christmas from Santa

Elizabeth in the stroller wearing the Elizabeth dolls' hat and blanket

Mama and Papa Joe got Elizabeth a Fisher Price tape recorder and the softest, cutest blanket and pillow set....all of which she loves :-)

Monday, December 26, 2005

Christmas at the Hagan's

Machelle and Dillon try to rock Elizabeth to sleep while PaPa, Grandma, and Seth watch (She was really getting tired by the end of the evening, but she really enjoyed her first American Christmas and is becoming a pro at opening presents :)