It's been a long time coming...

This weekend will definitely be one that I will never forget. And I wouldn't want to forget it, ever! Saturday morning was spent in such anticipation to meet my BROTHER and his family.

Well, it didn't come soon enough for us, we were incredibly excited. So we were all waiting in my parents living room (except for my dad and Chris, they were at work sadly) But when we did finally get that knock on the door, we were all too nervous to answer it! Leave it to Isabella and Elayna who ran to door and opened it. It was such an amazing thing to have witnessed.

Scott, his wife Char (possibly the sweetest woman you'll ever meet and beautiful too) his adorable daughters,Shelby and Sierra showed up with the warmest smiles and a gorgeous bouquet of flowers for my mom. To see a son that has been searching for his birth mom for such a long time, and a mother who has longed to see the child that she didn't want to part with, reunite, is something that I will hold dearly forever.

Almost immediately, all of the fears that have been wreaking havoc on my mind since I found out, disappeared almost as fast as they first developed. We got out all of the photos and they brought theirs and we just sat and talked and compared pictures. It was incredible to see that Scott has so many of the same traits that run in our family. Even his children have these traits! They are such an amazing family. His adoptive parents did such an amazing job taking care of him.

Later on that night Scott, Char and their adorable girls took my mom to see Scott's oldest two children Mercedes and Stefan ( I hope I spelled those right!?!?) at his son's wrestling match. I hope that I will get to meet them someday too! But I was able to see pictures of them and they are so cute!

After they got back from that, my dad and Chris had come home from work and Scott and Char very kindly took all of us out to dinner. We had such a good time! ( well, I know I did and I hope they did as well )I got to sit next to Shelby and we pretty much talked the whole time. I just love those two girls already. They are just too sweet and cute for words. They are so close in age to Izzy and Elayna, the whole time they were here, they were inseparable. I was so afraid that it would be awkward and tense, but it felt so natural talking to them and hearing all about their lives. One of my favorite parts of their visit was when Scott asked Angie and I if we minded that he call our mom, well, mom. Heck no we didn't mind at all!

It really made me ridiculously happy that he wanted to call her that. He has two amazing, unselfish mom's. I cannot express the joy that their visit has brought us. We were so happy to be able to pretty much spend the whole weekend with them. We love them so much already! We were so sad that they had to leave. I wish that we lived closer to them so we could visit often. We got such a kick watching Scott talk and seeing the resemblances in Scott and my mom. And trust me, there are many.

I still cannot believe that one week ago, I thought that I had only one brother, and his life was tragically cut short. And now I have a brother who is alive and well and has a great family of his own. I hope and pray that we will be able to see each other often and keep in touch forever. Thank you so much Scott, Char, Shelby, Sierra ( Mercedes and Stefan, I hope to meet you soon!) for allowing us to be a part of your lives. Ours is even better because of the simple fact that you didn't give up, even when it got tough and you hit dead end after dead end. Because of that, we now have you guys in our lives. And we couldn't be happier about it. Thank you for everything!






Isabella and Shelby
Elayna and Sierra