Today is the day!

Please say a prayer for Sandy and I because today begins our physical journey to see our beautiful little daughters in Ethiopia! Pray that we will have safe travels and that all paperwork will be in place for a smooth court appointment.

We will update our blog when possible.

Mike

Donations for new orphanage

The adoption agency we are going is in the process of starting a new orphanage in Ethiopia and are in need of donations. If you have any clothing, shoes, etc. that might be needed in an orphanage, we will be glad to take them with us next week. Whatever can cannot transport this trip can be taken on our return trip to bring our girls home.

Please pray for us as we finalize things this week in preparation for our departure.

Getting Ready for Court!

It is hard to believe that we are just a little over a week away from making our first trip to Ethiopia. This trip will be for our court hearing but during our stay, we will get to spend some time with our two precious little girls over there. We are praying that we will be able to go back before Christmas to bring them home for good!

Please keep our family in your prayers as we prepare to travel. Pray for safe travel for us, that we will get everything ready for the trip and that everything goes smoothly over there.

We will update our blog while in Ethiopia if at all possible.

Thanks for your continued prayers....we are in the home stretch now!

Revised travel plans

We found out a slight change of our plans today. The good news is that we will definitely get to see the girls when we go over for the court date on October 22nd. The not so good news is that the November 25 date we were given was not when we get to bring them home. It is the date when the Ethiopian government will issue the necessary paperwork to get the girls' passports, etc. We will then get to go bring them home either in late December or early January.

Please pray that we will have no more delays and that we will get to bring them home in December.

Finally a court date!

We finally received our court date. It is not nearly as soon as we would like it but our court date is October 22nd. We also found out that we will have to make 2 trips. Our second trip to actually bring home the girls will be the week of Thanksgiving. Obviously we were hoping to have them much sooner than this but we will just have to adjust our plans and start making preparations for 2 trips this Fall. Please keep us in your prayers as we enter this last stage of waiting!

Taking Flight

Please continue to pray that our court date will happen soon! We know other people who started the process much later than we did are having their court dates so that is very discouraging. A representative from our adoption agency flew to Ethiopia yesterday and is trying to get to the bottom of why we have faced so many obstacles and why the delays in getting our girls home. Please pray that they will get answers and will be able to get our adoptions expedited.

Paperwork completed but more prayers needed!

Leah's paperwork has been corrected and submitted to the court for approval. We do not know what the verdict is on it because our international contact has had difficulty getting a good phone connection with the attorney.

Please pray that we will be given a court date this week before the courts over there break for recess and that all the paperwork will finally be correct so we can bring our girls home soon!