Day at the Beauty Salon

Well, we’ve been home a month and it was time for Tigist to finally make her first trip to the beauty salon!  I needed some help and she needed a trim.  We had fun, and she quickly became the sweet heart of the entire salon and her hair was admired by all the stylists!  Major [...]

Some fun Singing

Also be sure to check out Fikadu’s face when he opens the freezer!  ha ha ha

Milk. . . . . . does the body good!

In light of our children’s initial aversion to milk we instituted the idea of milk (and everything else they don’t like but we want them to eat) giving you big muscles.  So far its been widely effective! =)

Overwhelmed. . .

When we began the process of adoption we had to wait until after Christmas 2007 so that we’d have the $250 in hand to send in our application.  We started completely on faith that if we were supposed to adopt that God would provide the funds we needed at each step along the way.  
Today, [...]

Adoption is Hard part 3

Before we left for Ethiopia I wrote about how difficut adoption can be, for both parents and children.  We have experienced so much grace so far in bring Fikadu and Tigist home.  There has been so much fun, laughter, silliness, and joy brought into our lives through these two kiddos!  Sometimes I just stop and [...]

Family fun

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Thoughts. . .

I don’t like night lights
I used to run my dishwasher every other day, now I run it everyday, sometimes twice
A family of four has a lots more shoes and tracks in a lot more mud
I now make coffee in the morning, AND a pot in the afternoon
Children who wake up at 4:00AM are whiny all [...]

We’re Home

WOW!  What an adventure of a lifetime!  We are home safe and sound and slowly but surely recouping from the 17 hours plane ride home.  Everyone is fairly healthy and adjusting to the time change.  We all napped yesterday from 3-8:00PM and then woke up for 3.5 hours gave the kids baths and went back [...]

Heading Home

Well, it’s 5:00PM here and we are eating some pizza and then heading to the airport.  What a week this has been!  Please pray for us as we traveling home.  Pray that the flights go smoothly and that Fekadu and Tigist will be at peace.  They seem to be doing so very well, but have also begun [...]

Daddy’s View (A Brief Update)

Nothing in the world could prepare me to hear the word “daddy” as it
was addressed to me.  Nothing, nothing, nothing, nothing, nothing.  It
is a beautiful word.  I have longed to hear that word.  What a joy it
has been to hear over and over again during the past week two sweet
little ones turn and say with [...]