we are home!

everyone home safe and sound, it has been wild and crazy with 7 kiddos, would not trade it for anything, everyone is adjusting to each other and finding their new place, and oh my, i have a baby again, that crawls! and did i say that my wonderful husband brought them both home all by himself, life is full!

Got our embassy date! Next week!

Well the plan was in march or April to pick up the kids, Gods plans..
.. next week! We are so excited! A sweet bloggy friend helped me do all the paperwork, unbelievable, what gift! Got everything notarized today. My kids all helped me move furniture and fix up the girls room, mahlet packed up all the suitcases and filled the diaper bag, she is soooo excited, she has shared her favorite things with her new sister, laid out her outfits she thinks she will like and has snacks packed for all of them, tomorrow, paint the baby room and fill it! Thank you friends

we passed!

we passed court, they are ours, they were both as sweet as i could have imagined, a new journey begins, now we will get rooms ready and prepare for them to come home, how do you really do that? we are now waiting for an embassy date, who knows when that will be, we expext to be traveling in march sometime to bring them home, they really were both all smiles and full of joy, they are amazing,it was very hard to leave them there,i believe she understands we are coming back and what is going on, she wanted to go on the airlplane with us, break my heart... thank you again for all your prayers

update!

a quick update, we leave in just a few days, our court date is Jan 18, praying to pass for 2 kiddos, we have received many updates and photos of our sweet ones waiting in Ethiopia, both are all smiles we hear, amazing! we can't wait to meet them so very soon, Mahlet is such a snuggle bug, loves getting kissed and dishing them out, prays for both of them everyday and reminds me of how i am going to have to change his diaper and carry him, and how she will be twins now with her new sister because they are the same.....and her hair, yes we added extensions to her own hair and it is rather messy, it's starting to all twist together(i untwist it daily), so we will see how long it will last.

can you say sassy?

yes as you can see mahlet has long curly hair now, 5 and a half hours later.... oh geez, she loves it and theoretically we don't have to do anything for 3 months, hmmmm, she looks 15 is that a problem? YES! sending christmas wishes to all our bloggy friends, PEACE JOY and LOVE

merry christmas and all we want for christmas are 2 more kiddos

january 18th is our court date for a little 6 yr old girl and a 1 yr old boy, would love prayer over all the details, clearly looking at these photos we are, shall i say, a bit out of the ordinary, and we love it that way! oh and wondering what name you guys like better, "johnny " or "mac"

Prayer

Thank you bloggy friends, would love prayer for direction! And peace! And wisdom! Will share all the details soon :)))