new family traditions

Christmas day 2010 marked some monstrous milestones in our lives starting with a pancake breakfast at Brad's request. It was huge, people, and will likely become a family Christmas morning tradition - gourmet pancakes and all the trimmings. 

More importantly (and even more exciting than that divine stack of pancakes), today we began the first steps to building our family through the miracle of adoption. We realize its going to be a long process, so we were excited to get started.

We hunkered down on the couch while we recovered from the great pancake massacre, propped up our slipper-girded feet and submitted our online application for the China Child of Promise program through Holt International. 

It was by far the B-E-S-T Christmas ever!