One Year Adoption Date and a priceless surprise!

On Valentine's Day, Februrary 14th was one year since the Taiwan Courts declared Min Hsuan Chen, our gorgeous daughter. I can not believe a year has gone by since and we could not imagine a second of our lives without her! Well, we also received a priceless cd in the mail, which was great timing for our special day! The cd, which was sent by St. Lucy Center, the baby home where Mya stayed for over 7 months, contained about 200 pictures of Mya from the day she came to the orphanage at 1 month old, till the day she left at 8 1/2 months old. Also, by our surpise, there were a few videos, and one of the 38 second videos contained Mya on a couch and sitting next to her was her Birth Grandmother. We were shocked and emotional! An amazing piece of Mya's heritage to tuck away until the perfect time to share with her! You could not help but see the love they shared, and the obvious emotions she felt. We watched the video over and over again. We looked at the pictures over and over again! They were taken on March 30, 2007 two days before I got to take Mya. So her Grandmother went to say goodbye, which breaks my heart! And on the video, which I didn't notice until the 100th time I watched it, Mya's Grandmother was holding our family photo album. I just can't imagine the feeling that she must have felt. For those of you who don't know, Mya's Grandmother cared for her for her first month of life, until she went to St. Lucy's! That lady loved her! I just hope she knows how thankful we are and how much we love Mya too! What an amazing gift to recieve! I think I have more pictures of Mya her first 8 months of life than I have of Ryan and Marissa. That is so rare in the "adoption" world!