Kendall and Cooper fly to Ft. Worth!

Yesterday began our journey to China and to Calli! Well, our physical journey - we feel like we've been on this whole journey for over a year now!! The girls were so excited because they were getting to fly to Ft. Worth with us where we dropped them off to stay with all the grandparents for two weeks.

We were pretty much packed and ready to go by Tuesday night. Wednesday when the girls woke up, they had some breakfast and then took baths before their big flight. Kendall drew this picture and I loved it - that's all four of us, then an airplane and then that's Calli on the far left. She said, "We're going to get her!"

Michelle met us because she was taking us to the airport and we all went to Chick fil A one last time before we left.

 Look at all that luggage! Three suitcases going with us, two carry-ons and a stroller, and then one suitcase for the girls and a carry-on apiece. Not too bad for two weeks around the world!

Michelle drove us to the airport and took one more picture of all of us before she left. Thanks Michelle!! We love you!

I wish I could even convey how excited these two were. They were so funny - they were just giddy. Cooper kept screaming with excitement all the way up 288, "We ah-wuh getting CLOSER!!!" They were so excited.

Our flight was delayed two hours! Kind of crazy to have a 2 hour delay on a 1 hour flight. That was just more fun for the girls, because it gave them more time to run around the airport, see all there was to see, watch the airplanes come in and out, and play with all the goodies they brought in their backpacks.

 Mrs. Melissa and Mr. Paul even brought them lots of fun things to do on the plane before we left on Wednesday! They had fun coloring and playing on their Leapster.

Snuggling under Calli's quilt. More on this in a later post - but I was super excited to finish it in time and very thankful for all of the family and friends who helped put it together!!

Finally on the plane! I think this picture pretty much sums up Cooper's excitement.

We started out sitting 3 and 1 but then decided to sit 2 and 2: Cooper by the window with me and then Kendall by the window in front of us with Randy. They did great on the flight! Never got scared, loved looking out the window, loved the tray table, and spent more time coloring. They were really so great the whole day and we had so much fun on our adventure!

 Last night we had dinner at Pops' and Kiki's, Gigi, Granny and Papas came by to see us, and then we put the girls to bed and went to bed ourselves. We had to leave their house at 3:30 this morning, so it was a very short night. Now we are in Chicago on a 4 hour layover, waiting to board our LONG flight to Beijing. Our next post will be from China! Let's do this!!