Kate and Joel's Adoption Blog » keepsake http://kateandjoelsadoption.com Our journey to and with Holly Fri, 16 Sep 2011 17:12:09 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Birthday presents for baby and me http://kateandjoelsadoption.com/2007/10/04/birthday-presents-for-baby-and-me/ http://kateandjoelsadoption.com/2007/10/04/birthday-presents-for-baby-and-me/#comments Fri, 05 Oct 2007 05:23:01 +0000 Kate http://kateandjoelsadoption.com/2007/10/04/birthday-presents-for-baby-and-me/ Continue reading →]]> I recently celebrated my 30th birthday. This year we asked our family and friends not to give us gifts for birthdays and Christmas, but to instead give us the money they would have spent on gifts to go in our adoption fund. Everyone has been really great about it, but it sometimes gets boring just writing cards and checks. So, my sister and parents decided to get sneaky. They hid the checks in presents for the baby! My mom bought us a beautiful, handmade baby sling, with a satin Asian print on one side and cotton yellow and pink daisies on the other. And my sister found the cutest little maryjanes in an Asian print. Joel got a great Sandra Boynton board book wrapped around his birthday check from my sister (Oh My Oh My Oh Dinosaurs!). There was one “check carrier” that was just for me, my folks got me a hot pink skin for my Razr phone ;)

Thanks for all the fun stuff, best 30th ever! Here are some pics of the shoes and sling:

Shoes from Kate’s sisterSling from Kate’s mom

]]> http://kateandjoelsadoption.com/2007/10/04/birthday-presents-for-baby-and-me/feed/ 2 Where’s George? Vietnam. http://kateandjoelsadoption.com/2007/09/16/wheres-george-vietnam/ http://kateandjoelsadoption.com/2007/09/16/wheres-george-vietnam/#comments Mon, 17 Sep 2007 00:00:10 +0000 Joel http://kateandjoelsadoption.com/2007/09/10/wheres-george-vietnam/ Continue reading →]]> One of the bills we received during the giant fund-raising garage sale had a www.wheresgeorge.com stamp on it. I thought it would be cool to take it with us to Vietnam and spend/leave it there. Who knows if anyone will ever log it again, but if they do that could be really neat.

The Where’s George Bill

Here’s the specific bill’s entry at wheresgeorge.com

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