COURT DATE

We now have a court date for our kids!! I'm soooo excited! It is the 27th of April, please mark this on your calenders and remember to say a prayer or two for all to go well at court. Some thing to pray for on that date are - the guardian needs to show up and sometimes they don't for reasons like - travel is hard, sick or whatever. Also the paperwork all has to be approved by MOWA which is a group that is in charge of orphans in Ethiopia. The agency doesn't know until after court if MOWA approved or even looked at the papers, depends on how busy they are. If we pass court we wait for an embassy date which now they are requiring (this is a recent requirement) that all immigrants to the US have to pass a TB test. This is a skin test for Tuberculosis and if they pass they are free to come to America. If they don't pass the first test they will x-ray their lungs to check for active TB, if that is positive then they do a sputum check if that is positive they are considered contagious and will be required to be treated in Ethiopia for up to 7 months! This would be terrible! Julie's little Samuel had active TB and was on meds here in the US. It is not contagious after they are on med for a certain amount of time. It is easy to treat but if left untreated is very serious. I could go to Ethiopia and pick up whoever is TB free if 1-2 end up with it but it would be so sad to leave the others behind! PRAY that they will be TB free!
We are trying to get ready for our four kids, this is exciting and challenging. I have been trying to slowly get some clothing but that is hard because I'm not real sure what thier sizes are and I'm sure they have been growing a ton since entering the orphanage, once they started getting regular nutrients. Crystal got thier foot size for shoes so that is nice. A lady that lives by us is leaving for Ethiopia to visit her babies and she has offered to get clothing sizes. Anyhow ... say a prayer for us all and actually they will be having court when we are sleeping the night before that would make it April 26th for court.

The sun is shining (literally and otherwise)

We have a court assignment letter! We are letter I, This is the group of us and other parents we will be submitted to court with. We should find out within a few weeks when our court date is, it usually is out a month or so from when you find out..." if " you pass court on that day then a month later we could possibly pick them up. All this is just surmising! I am just thankful that we are moving forward! Pray thing will go smoothly from here!

need some sun...

I've brightened my blog for a sunny day...
hoping and praying to hear some good news on my adoption soon.
We are receiving letters weekly from our kids and its making us want to see them all the more.

more letters and pics arrived

We just got an big envelope from girl A-(11-12years) in the mail with individual envelopes with each kids name and inside was a picture and a bracelet for the girls and a picture, beaded key chain for Buddy and then an envelope for mom with a braided bracelet in the Ethiopian colors red, yellow and green. Dad got a braided bracelet also and pictures. On the outside it said "I had to write to all of you" Of course the kids were thrilled! Boo-Boo thought it was sooo exciting!

Our adoption is still in waiting... the paperwork is still not complete on boy A-14years. Please pray this will be resolved soon. Little girl A-6-7years is always asking when are we coming.

Letters...

We received 3 more letters in the mail yesterday! This time two were from the boys! They seemed excited to be adopted and A-oldest boy said he was happy that we are Christian. The younger S-boy said he wants a bicycle and a car!? He did some cute drawing and stuff in his letter. It is so neat to get these little pieces of personality in the letters. I feel blessed to be able to do this and also blessed that God has brought us together with these specific kids the way that he did, please pray that we will get into a group for court soon!

Christmas

Heres a few pictures of our Christmas

Getting back in routine

Christmas break was very busy and snowy! We had all my family up from Vancouver and some of Jakes family. We stayed busy almost every night! The kids were tired and hard to get up this morning.
As far as our adoption we are kind of at a standstill waiting on some paperwork to get redone. The fun paperwork stuff! Hopefully we can get this resolved shortly so we can get on a group waiting for court! This put us back about three weeks, so what ever we tried to perdict on adoption timeline is not happening,... surprise, lol! Pray we will get this resolved so our kids can come home sooner rather than later. We got a letter in the mail from our youngest girl , A-6-7 year old, so sweet she had alot of question and told us her favorite food -rice, she likes juice, and animals-cats, dogs and camels (we might have a hard time getting this one!) so cute! She said she likes to swim and was wandering if there is swimming in America, LOL! We look forward to their letters-we still have not got any from the boys. The letters come back with traveling families. We sent them Christmas cards that sing, figured they would like that. Can't wait to actually meet them!