Fizzy!

Okay, I think I can function again. I seriously could not put together a cohesive thought this afternoon! I still cannot believe we actually have a date, a solid time when we will have her with us. No more guessing! Let me tell you about our day!

I absolutely intended to take Ian out to do something fun today. We had spent his entire vacation at home, with me stressed out on and off of the computer, or cleaning all week! We were going to meet Greg at work for lunch and then go do something. I really didn't think we would receive our pink today, I fully intended to be waiting all weekend! I checked the computer on and off until about 12:00 when I got a call from the vet to tell us Milo was ready to come home! So Ian and I decided to ask daddy for a rain check, we would pick Milo up and grab some lunch on the way home. I checked the forums one more time before leaving and saw that one person from our group (all those with results that arrived at the Embassy on the 27th) had received their pink! My stomach was in knots, I really wanted to stay by the computer and see if the flood gates of pink were about to open! But Ian was ready and raring to go so off we went. Our vet's office is not more than 15 minutes away, and I was there less than 5 minutes before the receptionist handed me the phone and said, "I think it's your husband." I figured he was calling to talk about how we were going to pay the vet bill (a doozy!), but he instead said "We have a date!" It was all I could do to not run out into the parking lot and scream! I felt like a kid on Christmas Eve. I think Ian explained the feeling best a couple weeks ago he asked if when I got really excited about something if I felt all fizzy inside. I absolutely felt fizzy today! I walked out of that office on clouds (that was one way to take the sting away from the vet bill!)! I got home and seriously could not focus on anything! I opened the e-mail and there it was. I opened up the document and saw on the first line; Ana's name butted right up next to our last name. I think that's when it really hit me that she is ours! Then after I snapped out of that daydream, there was this person to call, that person to write, the blog to update (you should have seen my frenzy to coordinate the pink colors! I finally gave up and went with the gray background! There must have been 5 phases to the "pink" blog change, sorry if you were checking at that time it must have been very confusing!). We had to start calling the travel agent to book tickets, where were we going to stay? You would think we would have thought about this more ahead of time but truthfully, until it was real we just couldn't think about it! Anyways, the afternoon is kind of a blur, lots of phone calls and e-mails, thank you everyone for your well wishes! We have made our plans, we will be leaving on March 11th, and returning on March 17th. We will be either staying at the Westin or the Marriott as we promised Ian there would be a pool (oh and Greg's dying to go swimming too!). I just still can't believe we have reached this point, our daughter is coming home! Then to top it all off, in the mail today, we received a copy of the DNA results and stapled to it was a picture of Ana taken on the day her DNA was taken (which happened to be my mum's birthday!). She looks like quite the chunky little monkey! I just can't wait to get down there and squeeze her cheeks! I will share the picture as soon as I can get it scanned.

Anyways, just wanted to share how the day unfolded. Thank you all for all your support and prayers through these long months. It has meant so much to us to feel you all by our sides helping to hold us up! To everyone who has followed our journey, would you mind leaving a comment for Ana? We plan to get this blog printed in some form and would love for her to know how many people have anxiously awaited her arrival along with us!