Lily's visit with birth family

We had our annual visit with Lily's birth Dad and Grandma T. We spent 5 hrs at Riverfront Park and had a lot of fun and made some good memories! This is the 2nd time we've met this side of her birth family. Her Grandma T drove up from California to attend the visit. They invited a friend to take pics of the visit. We did approve upon meeting her and it actually is a pretty neat idea. She took over 300 pics and put them on a disk for us to take home! For once it was nice to NOT be the one taking all the pics.
Lily greeted them with open arms! She was a little apprehensive with her birth Dad at first, but it didn't take long to warm up to him. She had no reserves with her Gma T! It was really cute! They got her a Tinkerbell lunchbox, 4 headbands and barrettes! She loved them ALL! Her birth Dad has been saving a musical snow globe of Mary, Joseph and baby Jesus since last Christmas. This was a special gift :)
I loved watching how they took in every smile or frown or jump or skip or whatever Lily was doing. There were some really tender moments captured :) They loved the photo books and albums I made for them.
So, we had a great time getting to know them better and watching our kids having a good time!
Here are some of my favorite pics that were taken!



An emotional greeting!









Gift time!





Pretties for her hair!


Lily's birth Dad looked everywhere for a snow globe that had a music box and he found this one last Christmas. It's Mary, Joseph and baby Jesus. What a beautiful gift!


Time to ride the carrousel!




Holding hands with Grandma T!


Weeeee!!!


Time to go down the BIG RED WAGON slide!


WEEEEEE!!!


What a handsome guy!


Pretty girl :)


"Let's do it again" says Lily!


STUNNING PIC! I think we might frame this one?


Watching the ducks!






WATER TIME!




Hmmmm...wonder how this tastes?


"Check me out"!


It tastes pretty good in this hot weather!


Someone's getting sleepy...





This is such a tender picture :) She was sooooo tired!






LOVE THIS!


I LOVE this pic! The facial expressions are almost identical!


Enjoying some snow cones!


A great family picture!


Two peas in a pod :)


Three generation photo!


Someone loves her Grandma T!


One last ride!