A Birthday tree? Oh, Yes!

"Georgia," you say, "Why are you posting a picture of a Christmas tree?"

It's not a Christmas tree! My sister and her family have made it home from Germany for a month's visit. And because my niece has a birthday this month, and my mother tends to go overboard, we had big blow-out shindig for the neice the moment they got out of the car! This is a picture of the birthday tree!!

Here's the kids and my brother-in-law as they pull up. Notice the wiped out look on my nephew's face. Poor kid. Long trip. But nothing perks kids up like PRESENTS!! It was like a mini-Christmas. I'm posting pictures, but none are really very good. Those kids are faster now and hard to pin down for a good photo.

I'm thrilled my sister is here this month. Adulthood and babies have made us much closer than we ever were as children and that's nice. Hopefully, we'll get a chance to really visit and catch up while she's here. I know they're here for the whole month, but this is one busy family. They'll be going between grandparents, in-laws, church family, friends, and mission work (the real reason they're in the states.)

The comings and goings of my sister's family will keep us on our toes and should make the month go by really quickly. A real distraction from the Adoption wait. They leave in early April and by then, I'll only have 4-5 more months of waiting for Zoe.