Baby shower for David's Orphanage

We were very blessed last weekend by all of our friends and family. My awesome friends, Andrea and Loni held a shower for the orphange! We will be able to take over 120 pounds of donations to the them when we travel to get baby David. This will be an incredible blessing for those kiddos. Thank you to everyone!!

Camping in Beuna Vista

We were able to sneak away for a couple of days to go camping. What a great state we live in!! Much to our suprise while we were gone, we got a call from out adoption coordinator, there is a chance we may be able to leave next weekend for ET as originally planned!

Adoption Decree and Delirium??

So we received the adoption decree today:

"Examining the application and detail evidences presented to it in verifying the
law; as the adopting have enough and sufficient capacity to take and grow up the
adopted child and there is no other condition to take and grow up the child, the
court has certified that approving the contract agreement of adoption is the
necessary and the best condition for the better growing up of child _________."

This is all such a God thing. We are so thankful for His guidance and mercy during this process. When I opened the blog today, I noticed our counter says "1 year and 1 week since we started this process". Although it seems like every day of 1 year and 1 week, God worked His patience into our lives through this process.

So...wonder why I titled this post Adoption Decree and Delirium? I am pretty sure Adoption Delirium is setting in. After over a year of this process, I am looking at my life through a totally different frame. Maybe it is through the eyes of Jesus? We bought our plane tickets (see last post) to leave in a couple of weeks, well since everything was postponed, we are probably not going to get an embassy date until two weeks after the date we were going to leave. I keep thinking that since we already have our tickets, why don't I go have two more weeks with baby David? Simon can still join me, but we could get a jump start on our life with our baby. One problem, we still don't have a confirmed embassy date. I could be there for anywhere from two weeks without Simon to four weeks. Crazy you may think, but maybe God is whispering in my ear. None the less, a decision does not need to be made for a week or more so we will be praying about it. I am curious as to what my fellow adoption mommas would do?

Travel Update

I haven't blogged in awhile, mostly because I have been so busy. Anyway, we found out last Tuesday that the Ethiopian government agency that issues the letter we need to confirm our embassy date has closed for 2 weeks. So frustrating!! We were finally so close we could taste it, then this.

We are trying to be patient, please pray for this for us. Also pray that whatever the reason the agency closed down, everything will be back on track when they resume work.