Let's Wait a Little Longer:)

As you all know, we went on deck two weeks ago and had to finalize our request. After much prayer and counsel, we both felt that instead of one OR two, we should wait for two:) Surprise:) For us also. For those of you who really know my personality, patience is not my strong suit. Who would have thought that the day we went #1 for infant boy, God would tell us to wait:) And that I would have such a peace about it:) Caitlin, our adoption coordinator, told us that if the wait got too long, we could always change it back to one, and we would be at the front of the list, so right now, we don't know FOR SURE if it will be two, we just know God is calling us to wait a bit longer. We could get a call any day, or it could be several months. They also emailed and asked if we would be willing to get two unrelated children. Our home study just HAPPENS to say we could accept two children (it's usually worded "two siblings") ages 0-4. So... we didn't have to change anything to change our request. We officially changed our request to two children, siblings or unrelated, 0-12 months and 0-4 years, with at least one girl. We'll have to get a new van now, we can't even hold that many. I'm still a little in shock, I always thought I'd have one child, now I'm so excited to think I could have SIX children, wow, it sounds like a lot when you type that, is that right?? :) Seriously though, we are so excited to think about God blessing us with two, just please pray my patience holds out. Even if we got a referral this week, it looks like our first court date wouldn't be until at least January, then it would be Feb or March before we would bring the children home. So exciting!!

We're On Deck!

We finally got our "on deck" email today!! This means we are suppose to finalize our request and get ready for a referral soon, usually in the next month! I'm so excited, it seems like I have been reading about everyone else going on deck for so long, it doesn't seem real:) Please pray for us as we finalize our request, one or two, boy or girl, ages, etc. Right now, we are requesting 0-12 month boy or girl, and IF their is a sibling/twin avail ages 0-3, we would adopt them also. We could choose to wait for two, or expand our ages. Please pray that God makes that clear to us!

NEW TSHIRT AND GROCERY BAG FUNDRAISER!!

We finally have our adoption tshirts and reusable grocery bag fundraiser up and running! We are taking preorders for our tshirts for the next 3 weeks, and we have the bags in stock, so we already have those. I'll attach pictures of the shirts and bag so you can see what they really look like. The adult t's are $20 each, you can get regular cut or the women's cut. The women's cut shirts run smaller, so order one size larger than you normally would, and I ordered the longer length also. The children's sizes run a little big and they are $15 each. The reuseable grocery bags are $5 each. The tshirts have the scripture on the back of each of them, the design on the front. The bags just have the design.

You can order directly from us, or go through paypal, by clicking the "donate" button on the right. If you order through paypal, please make sure you write regular cut, women's cut, or children's and the size in the message field, or how many bags you would like! After we turn the order in, it should be about 2 more weeks until we have the shirts.

Let me know if you guys have any questions. I'm so excited to finally get this underway!! Thank you guys so much for your support, we feel so blessed to have such wonderful friends and family to go through this journey with us!

Courts Reopen

Well, the Ethiopian courts officially reopened on Monday. We're hoping things will start moving again with referrals and court dates now:) Someone got a referral for one month old twin boys yesterday- how fun!! We are unofficially 11th in line for a boy and 14th for a girl:) We are also going to be starting a tshirt fundraiser in the next few weeks, I'll post pictures and take preorders when we get it all together! Thanks everyone for all your support!!!