day 1

It's amazing to me that sometimes the world can spin exactly as it should- the axis is aligned as are the people that are aligned on its path.  For me, the best of who those are come together in moments that are both uplifting and grounded.  Thus begins our journey...
After months of "chat", we met Sam and Emily today.
I am often (well, more than often) told that I have a one of a kind voice. That, once again, proved true as we shopped in our local Walley World only to be "found out" by our guests!  
For the next hour Lara, Gabe and I shopped with out two Brit friends.  They had never been in a Walmart and seemed amazed at the vastness and over-abundance found within the walls of the famous box giant.
Because of Warsaw's small (did I say small?  I meant tinnnny) community of shoppers, it is literally impossible to get though the store without visiting with at least 3 or 4 friends or passers by.  Today was no exception.  I must have introduced Sam and Emily at least 7 or 8 times from the diaper aisle to the checkout.  From there we went to Subway (which, BTW the DO have in England!), met Bret there for lunch and had our first of many pre-filming meetings.  Once finished we headed directly home.  I was so excited to finally share our home and our lives with our producer and assistant and to have the kids finally meet the crew!
AT 3:20 LJ and Helena barreled in the door just as excited to see Sam as I was to see the meeting happen.  At 4:00 p.m. the rest of the clan ran in and Sam and Emily were, for the first time since their arrival, fully enthralled in our world.
The kids could not wait to show Sam and Emily their rooms and to hear more about the UK and Lara, who fell madly in love with Emily from the moment they met, quickly dragged Emily to the fairy garden for a peek at the Autumn fairies.
Once everyone settled in we treated out new Brits to the first of many family dinners at which time they too had to share two things about their day (not to include PE or lunch).  It became, in days to come, the dinner table joke.  We also included them (once we fought over teams) in our after-dinner trivia.  It was clear to us that we needed some new "intercontinental" trivia as almost all of the stuff we had was America specific.  They lost miserably but I have no doubt that once on the other side of the pond visiting them we will share the same dastardly fate!
Day one came to a close and we all were so excited to meet Rupert and Tim on day two.  We were not disappointed!

BTW- this is Emily with her Gucci shades.  ADOPTION PENDING