We Passed Court!

We learned on May 20th that we passed court.  We waited on pins and needles the entire day before for news.  It was hard to wait and wonder, but now Joy is officially our daughter!  We are so pleased.  Now we wait for an embassy date.  This will be the date that we plan our travel around.  Hopefully we will be able to bring Joy home in June, but I'm still waiting for a refingerprinting appointment.  Once our fingerprints are taken then they have to processed and cabled to Addis.  We are trying to be patient and trust God with the timing.

Blessings

1.  A family from CO who traveled to the orphanage where Joy is took video of her.  We have about 12 precious seconds of her as a 2 month old!

2.  Another family has photos from their visit that they are trying to send to us.  Yea!

3.  Some staff members are bringing donations to school for us to bring with us to Ethiopia.  

God is so good!

Court Date!

Our court date is May 19th.  Only 18 days away!!  We're praying to pass the first time, so all our papers need to be in order by then.  We are also working on updating our fingerprints . . . one of the more annoying hurdles to jump since they haven't changed from a year ago!  It's hard to believe, but Joy might be home some time in June!

Waiting . . .

Still waiting . . . We're hoping for a court date in the next 4 to 6 weeks.  I've been surrounded by encouraging coworkers throughout this process.  They have been a blessing . . . and I can always hope that a seed will be planted in someone's heart to pursue an adoption too!

Testing remote posting

Let's see if this works!

Ethiopia Adoptive Moms

We met at Panera Bread to share stories, information, and pictures!  What a blessing to have others walking along the same road.

Referral!

We learned on April 1st, 2009 about our referral of a one month old baby girl.  She is beautiful!!  She has beautiful big brown eyes and a lot of hair!  We can't wait to go to her and cuddle, kiss, rock and sing.  Praise God!