An unforgettable welcome!

Thank you to our family represented by Adam, Joe's brother, our FCC family and our friends the Nevilles, and Kathy, Fred and Eric... all of you are awesome! thank you for being there for us as we touched down at home!!! finally! thought we would never make it after a very very very long trip of close to 24 hours between four cities (Guangzhou, Hong Kong, Newark and Ft. Lauderdale) and their corresponding lay overs grrrr... Thankfully, Madison did great in all the flights except for the Ft. Lauderdale one when she finally realized that enough was enough... but we made it home and that's all it matters now....

THANK YOU CHINA... IN OUR HEARTS FOREVER

It's time to say, see you later. We are leaving in about an hour with mixed emotions, happy to be going back home and start our new life with our little angel but at the same time leaving an amazing county, with amazing people and same amazing culture. The country who saw our baby be born and who selflessly let us take her home with ous and care for her... We will never be thankful enough for this. We had our last dinner at, where else but "Lucy's", there we got together with other couples who felt the same way about our departure. We all agreed on how hard it was to say goodbye for now... Special thanks to Veronica, our guide, now our dear friend who did everything possible to make us feel at home... and thank you to all the families who were with us who were willing to help out with just a kind word of encouragement or a good funny remark.. (Mari, Dawn, Robbie, Ina just to name a few...). Safe trip everyone!!!

China's history in pictures

Found this on the web, China's history in short....

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/11112443/displaymode/1107/s/2/framenumber/1/

More amazing days and more in the future...

It has been a roller coaster of emotions but we have accomplished so much in such a small period of time... from a frightened little girl to a happy (most of the time now) funny incredible little angel... We feel the mutual love constantly, her trust on us is evident she does what she's told and if she doesn't do it she'll think about it and then she'll do it. Tonight we went on a night cruise of Guangzhou which Veronica arranged for us, again Veronica is amazing and will never stop thanking her for everything she's done and is still doing for us. Maddy seemed to enjoy the fresh air on the cruise plus there two other kids who played with her most of the time, there were Brynn and Davis brother and sister to Alexandra and brand new baby brother Henry. Just some of the many wonderful people we've met on this trip and I really really hope we keep in touch with them. I believe our group rocked, we all got along great and spent lots of time together... Ok, it's 11:30PM and my eyes are closing... Enjoy the pictures and videos in our dropshots...

www.dropshots.com/heidy52801

Love

Heidy, Joey and Madison.