Friends from Georgia!

Before we left on our "vacation" we had our friends over!

They used to live in MN (before we even knew them) but moved to Georgia.
They come up every winter to visit friends and get their fill of snow!
We certainly can accommodate their need for snow since this was a record year for snowfall here in the upper midwest!

We met in Guangzhou China when we adopted Mia, Melissa and Madeline.

They adopted Caitlin at the same time!

We missed you Vickie, Pheobe and Chloe.
(http://wwwourchinagirl.blogspot.com)
The children and the parents hit it off and we had an instant support group!

Caitlin still speaks Chinese so Joey was thrilled to talk to her!
She was also used to helping with the younger children in the orphanage but in her family she is the youngest.
Caitlin loved helping Joey and he loved the TLC!

Claire and Sarah became good friends while we were in China!

Claire has been good about calling Sarah so the girls could still keep in touch!

It was wonderful to get them back together!

Just the bigger girls- 10 and over!

We did talk about the different characteristics of our children and how some of them don't exactly look like they 100% Chinese.

Susan's daughter Camilla(3rd from the right) reminds me of our daughter Ava. There hair texture is different from the other girls and same with some of their facial features.

My friend from Vietnam said that woman from many of the other Asian countries go to China to work in the factories.

This was good for both of them!

Joey got teary when she left.

My friend thinks Madeline is part Thai and Mia is part Filipino?

Someday we will do "23 and me" to find out our children's heritage!