Church Surprise Elia is home!!!

Church Surprise Elia is home!!!
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After a 22 hour round trip to Tijuana in the middle of the week, a Home Church is "Very surprised to find out that this morning's "Special" is much more than just a pretty song about Love.

This church family as well as many other friends and family from around the country prayed for and supported this young couple through their adoption of this baby girl. At times it seemed like an endless journey. There were lots of "pretty difficult long weeks, that seemed to never come to an end".

And suddenly almost out of nowhere, they were to get their baby at an orphanage at 3 am on a Wed morning, and make that dirve to Tijuana and then home on Fri. Saturdaythey still found the time and energy to put together a wonderful moment of praise and celebration for their Church family.

Their prayers and the prayers of many many others had been answered. The man in the video who makes the surprise entrance near the end of the song is someone Elia's family has now named "Uncle Jerry".

The song is by Natalie Grant entitiled ..Held..and is being sung by My daughterBecky... Elia's Mommy , the pianist is my son-in-law ...Elia's Dad.

If you listen all the way through I think you will agree ; this church family is absolutely and very pleasantly surprised at what has unfolded in front of them this Sunday morning.

Elia's Birthday is this Wednesday.

She will be one year old. I will fly into Tucson on Wednesday, and instead of having to go to the orphanage and see her and then have to leave her after just a few hours, I get to spend a little more than 4 days with her. One of the fun things we are going to do is go swimming. Here is a picture of Elia in her swimsuit.


I am told she just loves the water. I am planning on getting wet long before I thought I would!!!LOL

I am so excited!!!

Guess Who's coming to Grandma's house.

July 8th I will meet Elia with her Mom and Dad at the airport. I can hardly believe I will have that beautiful baby with that wonderful smile right here to brighten up every corner of my home. I will be visiting her first to celebrate her Dedication service and her First Birthday, and then a couple of weeks later, she will be here. Several friends and some family also live here in ILlinois, so it will be a sort of whirlwind visit. I shall savor each and every second. I will even try to squeeze in a few comments about Mom and Dad every now and then LOL.

I am typing on a new computer and haven't downloaded any pictures yet. I may try to install the scanner later this weekend and put a picture of Elia at 10 months that I received a beautiful 8 X 10 of in the mail this past week.