Let Us Eat Cake!

Thursday marked one year since we picked Bereket up at the Hilawe Center and officially started our life together. We celebrated Gotcha Day with a family lunch at our favorite Chinese restaurant. To be honest, Bereket had already had lunch at daycare and was a little restless to have to sit and watch her parents eat. For her, it wasn't a super fun celebration.

We had a proper party at our home on Saturday. We shared a big, beautiful cake and munchies with some special friends who have shown our family lots of love and support during our first year.

 

 

 

Bereket loved the cake (she got more than one piece since it was her special day!). And she had a lot of fun catching up with great friends. So did we!

 

 

As we celebrated over a piece of marble cake with butter creme frosting, I thought of the cake we enjoyed as a family one year ago with the staff at the Hilawe Center and all of Bereket's little friends there. We were saying good-bye to her old life as we started a new one together. Wow, was that a beautiful and emotional gathering!

Jason cutting Bereket's Good-bye cake

Our first dessert as a family!

We were starting a new life together. A life now one year strong!

Saying farewell to all our friends at the Hilawe Center. October 4, 2011