I think I forgot to introduce myself personally!

I am Barbie, near York, PA. I fell into this after attending a birthday party that had a painter who took 12-15 minutes to paint a simple spider on my daughter's cheek (using acrylic paint pots LOL). The spider was so badly done and you know what? We LOVED it! That is when I realized that my girls are so easy to please, and we went right away to the craft store to buy paints and a book (Snazaroo brand, thankfully). When we got home I researched Amazon and got the Klutz book. A week later I was in love, and found this forum and then it took off. This all happened less than 3 weeks ago!

Just a personal note because folks always love our story: my two girls are adopted. My oldest Ava is from Louisiana and my younger one is from near Hershey/Harrisburg. We kinda fell into an open adoption with my Ava (she was born 3 mos premature and was very sick and so birth mommy and I *both* pumped to make breast milk for her - yes even I did, and so our love for her brought us together). My Keira was supposed to be a boy and dark-skinned too - but she is more Irish looking and super fair-skinned, and a girl - ha ha! We are just so happy, and feel so blessed and SO undeserving. We just got back from a May week at the Outer Banks with both birth families - our first vacation all together and the first of many to come. Anyway, I just love sharing our story, I hope it puts a smile on your faces

Here are pics of my girls (my hubby Tad is awesome too, just not as into face painting as we are!):
Regards, Barbie

Silly Firefox will only let me upload one photo per post... here is me (not a great photo):

Nice to have you here! Good luck, Barbie!

Lyn

What a story, and yes, it made me smile

And welcome to this forum...

Nice to finally "meet" you Barbie! What a lovely family! We have 5 kids(1 adult daughter, 3 teens & an 8 yr old). My husband is adopted, so we love adoption stories!

Hey girl and welcome to our Familia, lol...I'm not sure how far away you'd be to Kerri Ann Smith, but check her out http://www.aboutface-2.com/ She teaches at conventions and stuff and You can check her out while she works at football games, restaurants, hockey games, etc... She is SUPER nice!

hello and welcome

Welcome.

Hello and welcome.

Welcome Barbie, oooooh your story is heart warming & the pic of the girls is so sweet. What a wonderful experience to have close contact with the birth families

welcome!...

I too love your story. Sweet little babies =)

Welcome!

Welcome!!

Hi, Barbie! Nice to meet you. Thanks for sharing your story - you brought a smile to my day.