24 hours ago

24 hours ago we woke up and left the hotel to board our plane for the airport. We made it through the many check in and security lines. Thankfully, we had a pretty uneventful flight. Grace and Jon Jon napped alot of the trip. Ethan was awake the ENTIRE 15 hours watching his tv and playing games while enjoying his sodas. He is going to need detox from the amount of television he has watched on both the airplanes and in the hotels and from the incredible amount of soda he has been able to consume during this trip!! Jon Jon enjoyed the meals and snacks on the plane ride home. He grabbed the menu from the seat pocket as soon as we got on board so he could plan his selections! Grace did not get sick at all!!!!!!! Thank you Lord! We are so very grateful for your prayers. She was able to just relax and fly without getting sick!! We made it from Hong Kong to Detroit on a smooth flight. We were able to go through immigration and the adoption paperwork line pretty quickly and easily. We then picked up our luggage and made it through security quite quickly. We were at the airport in the immigration /security area at a very slow time. Thankfully no big crowds and lines to deal with. The TSA/ Border Patrol people were very nice and kept congratulating us. It was quite nice after all of the airline staff on the international flight had been rather rude. We were able to recheck our bags and make it to our connecting gate very quickly. We even had about 45 minutes to spare!! Nothing like our experience with Jon Jon where we had to run the entire way , got stopped at every point and barely made our flight to Memphis! We landed in Memphis around 4:40pm. Again, we had a smooth, uneventful flight. Both boys and Grace slept about 2 hours on the flight. We were blessed by friends and family at the airport to welcome us home. We were so excited to see all of you there. Thank you so much for taking the time to greet us at the airport! It was so kind of you to bless us by being there. We cannot tell you how sweet it was to see your faces after such a long journey! It really made the boys feel special to see people waiting for us. They have been excitedly talking about since we got back to the house. :) Thank you so much for bringing us and all of our stuff home from the airport. Thank you for taking care of everything while we were gone. We appreciate your help so very much. We arrived home to find our kitchen full of groceries!!!!!!!!! Oh my goodness!!!! Words cannot express!!!!! I cannot tell
you how much that made my day!!! I had already gottn my grocery list written while I was on the plane. I will admit I was dreading getting out after we got home to go pick up a few necessary things at the grocery. It was so incredible to come home and find those things already in my house!!! Thank you does not even seem adequate enough to express my gratitude to you guys who put all of that together!! I am so thankful and blessed beyond words!!!!!!
We are now home. It has been 24 hours since we woke up and started our trip home! It is SO GREAT to be back home!! I am thankful beyond measure for God watching over us and bringing us home safely. It was a great trip and I am glad it is behind us. We are so thankful to begin our new life as a family of five with our baby girl finally home with us!!!