In Denver!

Beep Beep....
Ring Ring....
LA LA LA...
BeepRingLaBeepRingLa!!!!!!!!!!!!!

The alarms went off at 4 a.m. this morning. The day has finally arrived for us to go get our girls. Just to make sure that we didn't oversleep. We set both cell phones and the alarm clock. Having them all go off after only 4 hours of sleep was.......amusing?

The first flight was very smooth out of Cody. We are now in the Denver airport waiting for our next flight to DC.

We leave in 1 week!!!!!!!!!!

Need I say more?

"Tentative" Travel Date

We have been given a "Tentative" Travel date to pick up our daughters - Nov. 16. We are just waiting for the green light from the embassy on one last document before we can go...or purchase our tickets for that matter. Here are some pictures that our agency recently shared with us. Please pray for us as we wait!

Fundraiser

We had this beautiful hand crafted gun cabinet donated to us to sell to raise funds for the adoption. It has three doors plus a bottom drawer. Please note that it does not lock. We would deliver in the Big Horn Basin. If you do not live in the basin, you would need to come and pick it up. :) If you have any questions, please call us at 417-718-5597 or post us a note here. Asking Price: $300 OBO

Changing Time Frames

After finding out about the typo in our adoption decree we found ourselves resigning to the fact that it would be sometime in December when we finally travelled back to Ethiopia to pick up our girls. It was the first week of August when we went to meet them. Already it feels like ages ago that we last held our daughters. Anyway we arrived at that conclusion based on our knowledge of "usual" time tables. For instance we expected court to reopen in October, then a week to get in to see a judge to fix the decree. Another week for translating, then there is the average 8 week wait for embassy approval, which would put us well into December.

Then we heard CWA was removed from the pre-screening list meaning: The Embassy wait would only be 2 weeks. Meaning a late Oct/early Nov travel date was not out of the question. However, a phone call told us that since we were already "in progress" this would not apply to us. We would have to go through the full pre-screen. Back to December it is.

Yesterday we talked with our case worker and found that much of the Embassy work is likely already done, and once they get the translated adoption decree we should be cleared to travel. So, Now we are back to thinking November..............

While we are waiting

CWAF opened its new childrens home this week. This is apart of a 3 part process. Part 2 includes a guest house for parents coming for their court and embassy dates. Part 3 includes a medical facility to serve the needs of women in children there. To see pictures, go to: www.cwa.org/blog

While you are there, I would highly recommend the YouTube video in the Sept. 23 post. This is from another family that is adopting from Ethiopia. WARNING: Don't watch unless you have tissues.

Courts Reopening

Good news today. Courts are set to reopen on September 27!!

Originally we were told that they were tentatively scheduled to reopen on September 30. Meaning...it could be the 30th or later.

How you can pray for us:

1. Pray that the rest of the paper work goes through smoothly - there's always a chance for more snags. That's just the way things are.
   
2. Pray for us financially. God has blessed us with some extra jobs to go towards the adoption. We just need a little more......The price of airlines effect these costs.
   
3. Pray for peace -That God will give us and our daughters peace during this time -That we would be anxious for nothing.