Surprise!

So as most of you know by now, Baby Thomas decided that an "adults only" weekend was not about to happen without her.

On July 2nd, our family arrived from out of state for a fun-filled weekend complete with a couples baby shower, shopping, and the first course of a dinner out. I say "first course" because no sooner had we sat down at Anthony's Italian restaurant with our family and a fine bottle of wine that my phone rang. Our birthmother said her water had broken and she was headed to the hospital!!! Within 30 minutes our wonderful family had italian food "to go" and we were back at the house literally throwing stuff into our car to quickly head to Texas. We headed out and were still filling our car with gas when we heard the words we've long-waited to here. BABY HAD ARRIVED!

In less than 2.5 hours, our birthmother went into labor and delivered a beautiful 6.6 pound baby girl and on July 4th we arrived in Fort Worth to meet our new little firecracker.

Since that time, Bryon and I have spent two wonderful (and extremely emotional) days with our daughter's birth parents. I will never be able to explain how special the time spent with them was and it is a relationship that we will cherish always.