Catching up!

Well I guess I haven't done a very good job with keeping up with the blogging! It was a hard summer as Josh had to do a bunch of traveling for the Army. But, we are all back together again and are coming along in our adoption journey to Ethiopia!

We received an email from our agency a couple of days ago about a potential referral. The little girl is about 10 months old and awaiting a doctor's visit to get a complete medical check up. We will find out  next week if this is to be our daughter! This Journey has been long and often times frustrating with changing state laws and constant paperwork to be done. We are very anxious to have our daughter home with us and I know God will make that happen in his time! Many things have been revealed to our family throughout the process. We have matured as a married couple and have grown spiritually more than we could have ever imagined. Our children, Rafe and Bryson, are such sweet children. They have remembered every day to pray for "baby sister" to come home soon. It makes me proud to see their own relationship with God grow into something special every day.

We are doing OK on funding the adoption but no millionaires have offered to pay for the adoption yet.;) So, we must continue to fund raise and pray that God will provide. Our t-shirt website will be closed on Monday (10/22/2012) so if you have been thinking about buying a really cool t-shirt, now would be the time! We will leave our "donation" site up which is through paypal if anyone is interested. A link can be found at the top of this page. We also covet prayers that we might have our baby girl home before Dec. 31, 2012 due to the "bush tax cuts" not being extended. We have written our congressman on this issue and are not sure it will be saved. This tax cut would help us out tremendously, financially if it were extended. However, that doesn't look likely. We also need prayers for safety when we do end up traveling to Ethiopia. We will have to go twice and there will be some involvement at the US embassy. With everything going on in the world, it is kind of scary to know we will be surrounded by countries that are not entirely fond of US citizens.  Thank you to everyone that has supported us throughout this journey emotionally and financially. We will never forget this experience and pray that our story can help someone else in some significant way. Updates will follow as we continue to wait for our precious baby girl!