Good News

With a little encouragement from Wendi who adopted three of the most beautiful children ever I am going to try and share a few of the amazing things God has done for us as it relates to our adoption. Hope it serves as encouragement. To her amazing boys thank you for singing the alphabet to me!

I love Hope and her venting blogs. She is amazing. She is helping me work on my Spanish. It is not going well. I don't know why I can't seem to remember anything.

We recieved a picture and information on the children Julie told us about. After a wonderful week of thinking things over we are faxing an official request tomorrow. Of course I will not post much until it is official. I am very excited and can't wait to have them home. The first night we had the picture Barry was so weepy. Hope said "these are my kids no matter what two governments say" and Beau was so smiley. Barry definitely had the "those are my kids" moment. I did not. I wish I had but I opened the email and closed it and thought, "AM I CRAZY?". Then I went ouside and was so ansy. I kept going back to look again and again. Now I am in love! I will share more later when things are official.....

Also our contractor is going ahead with the addition on our home anyway. He is just going to absorb the cost. I hope you can all be blessed with how big and amazing this is. He is literally donating thousands of dollars of skill and labor. We are paying for materials. He is a Godly man who knows why we where adopting and why we wanted to add some space to our home. When our financing options looked undesireable due to the housing market we decided to wait a year and bring the kids home ASAP anyway. But God knows the desires of my heart as I am a very organized person and would function better with a little room. Anyway.....the contractor told us "some things are bigger than financial profit and I know God is in this and I want to help". We have been BLOWN away by his determination. Our pastor has offered wonderful counsel to all of us on how to go about things. It is so neat to see the body of Christ come together and say let us together do what we can for these kids. We can be the parents and our church body is helping to provide us with the resources we need to care for our family. We had totally set our minds to make our house work so this is just like icing on the cake! I know some of you can understand..... WE WANT these children. WE LOVE them but we also feel we are just walking out what God has called US to be.

I am following the blogs of the wonderful families in Colombia. Yeah for the Boyachecks and the Hollis family and those beautiful little babies! It is so fun to follow along and I am gathering so many tips from these families.

Pictures next time. And I just promised Hope that she could post the on the big announcement day.
Jan