where we are...

Words cannot describe our thanks & how completely humbled we are by all the words of encouragement, thanks, love, & prayers from everyone! We covet the prayers most of all..

so thanks thanks thanks!

Felt like I needed to do a quick update to let everyone know where we are exactly in the process. (since I got several calls asking all about our baby & I had to say "well we don't know our baby yet." then long pause from caller. "oh we thought y'all had one") So, sorry for the confusion I caused. We were just really excited to tell everyone what was going on, & there will be a baby... soon!

This is what we have left to do:

• Home study- 5 visits with social worker, tons of paperwork, lots of education courses, Doctor visit for a well check-up (complete body screen & lots of bloodwork/tests)
• Fingerprints (done twice)
• I-600A Application- immigration approval form
• Wait for our immigration approval
• Dossier- everything from home study & all new birth certificates, marriage license, etc.
• Then Dossier is sent to Ethiopia.
• Wait
• Wait
• Wait
• Wait
• Get a referral (A BABY!)
• Wait some more for court date
• Get court date. GO meet our baby & have first court appearance.
• Come home. without baby :( & wait some more for everything to be finalized.
• GO GET OUR BABY.

We are at bullet point number 1.. We have finished our first & second home study visits, finished our super long autobiographies (we are learning a lot about ourselves & our past) & gathering several documents, & reading a book on adoption. (which is fabulous!!)

Seems easy when I type it all out, but it's a lot, & that's ok.

Knowing there will be one less orphan, one less baby to starve to death, one less to grow up on streets or in an orphanage, one less to not know the love of Jesus, ONE that could possible change a nation makes every single thing we have to do or write in vain! Not that we are anyone special by no means, we are truly in awe that the King of Kings would choose us to be this baby's parents. So please continue to pray for our family, our baby, & the birth mother!
We love you all so much!! Blessings in Jesus' name!