April 29th, 2010

Howdy!!!
Wow life seems to be in fast forward these days, so it has been a while since the last post. We have done alot to prepare emotionally, financially and physically. We are working to line up finances and continuing to look for fundraisers, sacrifices and ways to pay for our little men. We have no worries for God is in control! We have loaded up our library card with as many adoption books and books on Ethiopia that our public library had. We believe education is power and are hoping to read up and prepare our hearts and minds. Last weekend we went to Phoenix for a picnic through Building Arizona Families, our agency. We all met at a precious little park where we visited, played and ate together. There were families just applying, matched, adopted kids, adopted adults, parents, etc. We loved visiting, comparing notes and finding prayer partners for each others journey. There is one family who Lisa had paired us up with and we had been emailing back and forth and we were both able to attend the picnic. For some reason seeing and playing with their children made the fantasy of our boys more a reality. They adopted 2 young children from Ethiopia recently and have been a great source of info, support and prayer even though we had never met. But then on Saturday watching their little ones play made us realize soon enough hat will be us. Not planning, and hoping, but parents of 2 blessings from our Lord. While in PHX we took the opportunity to stop at IKEA and purchase crib #2 and high chair #2. Since we made the decision to keep the boys int he same bedroom at first we needed a matching crib and chair. I will attach a pic or 2 of the new arrangement. We are thrilled and anxious, we keep looking in the others eyes quietly and then both say,"I want our referral". So odd to be in a time great peace, fear, hope and anxiety all at once, thankfully we are not in control and our God has a better plan than we can imagine!!!