Our Adoption: It's a Boy ... x 2!

Last week we got a call from our adoption agency ... a call we have been waiting on since we began this process one year ago.  The call was our "official referral" to adopt two orphaned brothers from Ethiopia!!

We have spent the past week looking at pictures and reviewing all the information provided to us about these children.  We have prayed, asked follow-up questions, talked to our families, and prayed some more.  AND today, we mailed our official acceptance, signifying our desire to adopt these brothers and bring them legally, emotionally, relationally, and spiritually into our family.

The oldest brother is 3 years old; his younger brother is 4 months old.  We can hardly stop looking at their pictures, thinking about them, and praying for them ... BY NAME!  We can't wait to travel and bring them home :)

We cannot share much more (pictures, names, locations, etc.) at this time about them because of privacy and confidentiality agreements designed to protect children.

What happens now?

1. We get a court date.  In court an Ethiopian judge must legally make these children ours.  As of now, we do not have a court date but expect one sometime in February.  {Nothing is guaranteed until we pass court.}


2. Once we pass court, then we arrange travel to Ethiopia to pick them up.  The trip is about a week long and involves meeting the children, their caretakers, visiting birth relatives (if possible), and obtaining visas at the American Embassy.


3. PLEASE PRAY FOR THESE 2 BOYS and FOR US!!!