Gotcha Day! - A Year in Review

Time certainly does fly. I sit here tonight, reflecting on this past year.

Exactly 365 days ago, around this time, we were just exiting immigration at Boston International airport. We had left Florida that morning as a family of 2...

 ...and arrived home from Haiti as a family of 5, with our 3 little men in tow.

Here we are one year later celebrating our first "Gotcha Day!" 

The boys have all grown about 3 inches.  They continue to amaze us with their intelligence, crack us up with their goofiness and drive us insane (as all kids are required to do to their parents).  

We've certainly had happy moments of celebration, but joy cannot fully be appreciated without the moments of sorrow.  In January, we said goodbye to our dear Piper.  Our "little monster" will always be remembered for her never-ending love for all baby creatures and her immense love of food.  She died holding her bone in her mouth, a feat our vet said she's never seen in her 20+ years of work. It was beautiful to witness her companions loving her, even after she passed.  

Amidst the loss, we've continued expanding the farm with lots of new life.  We now host our 6 laying hens, 30 meat birds, 2 cows (Oakley and Acorn), 11 goats (5 bucklings and 1 doeling born within the past month - whom the boys all named after Star Wars characters), 17 rabbits (Clover, Bluebell and Hazel along with 14 babies - our new meat rabbit adventure), and a tank full of tadpoles the boys collected at a river.

This journey will certainly never get boring!