GA and Adopting Brandon

We closed on our house in LA on our 14th wedding anniversary Jan. 11, 2006 and drove to GA.  It was funny to come home on our anniversary.  My how things had changed since our wedding day!  We had 3 kids, 3 dogs and 2 cats in tow!  It was a relief to have been able to sell our house in LA after Katrina.  We settled into our new home.  Unfortunately, Scott was still not retired and he had to commute from New Orleans to finish out his tour of duty there and then he had to finish out 1 last tour of duty in Cherry Pt., NC.  Funny how we came full circle with him commuting to see me in GA from Cherry Pt. just like when we 1st met.  That ended up being 3 years of commuting home on wkds.  Not easy but we were used to being apart after his tour in Iraq.  It was worth it to get settled and out of the chaos in LA before our next beautiful boy came home!  We had begun our adoption for Brandon in LA.  I was sitting in a MOPS group at church when I got the call that he would arrive from S. Korea the next Tues. at Hartsfield International in Atlanta.  He was going to arrive on May 9th!  That is the same Gotcha Day as Kelli Ann in 2004!  Wow!  I was shocked!  There was no way we could have planned that! What a great day that was!  No glitches!  We all put on our special shirts and drove to the airport to greet our new little family member.  He was asleep when the escort handed him to me.  He woke up soon after and never cried at all.  He just looked at all of us with wonder in his eyes.  We were in love once again!  Of course, we were in love from the referral pictures of Brandon already!  We came home and he smiled and laughed and crawled around his new room. Brandon was 7 months old when he arrived. We were once again blessed!

  Atl. Airport after Brandon arrived.

Brandon's 1st few moments in his room.