Wedding bells

Wonderful news!
My brother, Rich just got engaged! He and Emily will be getting married at the end of next summer. Emily is a bright and beautiful young woman.
She is easy-going yet deeply-grounded. She comes from a large and loving family where she is the 4th oldest of 9 children. My brother has waited a long time to find the right person and we couldn't be more thrilled for the two of them!

I have never seen him so happy and my heart is truly overjoyed that he has found the one he wants to spend the rest of his life with. Rich is a high school teacher and a phenomenal basketball coach. He has a passion for sports, coaching and children. Emily is studying to be a teacher herself. We can't wait for him to experience all the richness and love that marriage brings. We will have lots to celebrate next year!
Congratulations, bro!

7 months old

Our girls turned 7 months old this week. We have received some more pictures and they are just too adorable. We can't wait to kiss those cheeks! The program directors from our agency were visiting Korea last week and they got a chance to see our girls and visit the foster family. Their exact words were... "They are absolutely darling! I am warning you... they will be the chicks of California!" Apparently the foster mother and father are very involved in the care of our girls. They are a couple in their late 60's with grown children of their own. The foster mother said that the girls' personalities are almost identical. Our program directors also mentioned that they hope I've been working out because they are about 20 pounds each! We are so happy that our girls are being well taken care of :)
This week, we should get some video footage that they took while in Korea and also some more updated pictures. We can't wait!

Oh, yeah... Faith is on the left of all the pictures and Grace is on the right. Faith is 2 minutes older than Grace. It's easy for us to tell them apart but I guess that's because we've stared at them for so long and of course, because we're their parents!