A birthday and anniversary... ON THE SAME DAY..

Imagine leaving everything you've ever known going with someone you have only spent 15 hours with, who doesnt speak your language then traveling half way around the world where NOTHING is familiar, the sights, sounds, smells none of it...
Well this is what happened to Alina on her 8th birthday... four years ago.. She became my daughter, she walked out of the orphanage and her world was totally transformed. SO we celebrate her birhtday and we celebrate her GOTCHA daty this week, and today is 4 years ago we flew from Moscow to Atlanta to Tampa and she became an American Citizen.
GOD has blessed us with the addition of her to our family. The changes in her have been so amazing to see. She came home at eight years old, 44 inches and 40 pounds, now shes 4 10 and weights 65 pounds, she could not read or write in any language she now will sit down with a chapter book and be done with in a few hours, GOD has been so good to us, THANK YOU LORD.
This was then..

And NOW...