Bringing Ellyana Home

Its been several weeks since I posted & LOTS has happened...

#1 best news, we got our date to pick up Ellyana, unfortunately it is the 1 week this summer that Brian is unavailable to go due to lots of work commitments, we knew this date wouldn't work & God knew this too & though we spent the weekend "coming to terms" with this...we do feel very peaceful...my Dad has graciously offered to go with me. And with a 17 hour minimum flight, and being totally out of our time zones in a 3rd world country...this is a very gracious offer! So the plan is to leave August 9 & return August 14, only 4 nights in Ethiopia...the rest is travel time! Our boys are looking forward to their "vacation" with both sides of the family!

And though everyday they ask, "is this the day Ellyana is coming home?"...we will make it...the end is in sight & God has given us unspeakable joy & peace (and lots of projects to work on)!

About 1 1/2 weeks ago the boys & I were severely rear-ended on the way home from BJ's speech therapy appt. Though bruised, sore & shaken up...we were fine. Our faithful car was not, it was totalled. But thanks to help from the insurance payout, we were able to get a minivan (we had intended to try to cram the 3 kiddos in the back seat of the Camry) and "just in time" for me to get a little practice driving before adding a baby to the backseat.

There have been a lot of "little" things that have added up to know that God is alive & at work in our family! & faithfully leading to bring Ellyana home!!!

We just got more pictures today...it looks like she is teething, starting to try to sit & starting to try to crawl...she is growing up so fast, we can't wait to get her!!!

Thank you for your prayers, we believe God is answering!!