Care Package #2

We put a care package for M. in the mail yesterday to a family in Missoula. They are adopting one of M.'s best buddies and will be traveling to Ethiopia soon to pick him up. They will deliver our package to M., and we are looking forward to their return and new photos of our little man. It will be so awesome for M. to have his buddy just a couple hours away in Missoula. These Montana-Ethiopian connections are amazing!!

Thoughts From Elli - Big Sister (8 years old)

"I think it is just awesome that M. came to the orphanage on the same day as my birthday, April 3rd. That is something that we share and that is special to me. I wish I could share a room with him but he is going to room with the boy, Daniel. I'm  excited to teach him English and help him learn to read. I'm learning a lot about Ethiopia and like to check out books in the library about Africa. I want to share with M. facts about where he came from."      Elli

Oops!

Spoke to soon on our celebration of completed paperwork. Our I600A form that was sent to the US Homeland Security Immigration Office was returned in the mail today stating our check was for the wrong amount. GRRR! The fees went up from when I printed the information last. Hopefully just a minor set-back that won't hold anything else up.

"I can hear the least of these - crying out so desparately - and I know we are your hands and feet O God"



Montana - Ethiopia Connections

We are excited for an adoption party tomorrow. A couple in Bigfork is adopting from the same orphanage in Addis. We both just finished our dossier paperwork and will be celebrating. Joining us will be Lacey's brother and sister-in-law and their kiddos, as well as their good friends who also have a little boy from the same orphanage in Addis. Thus...four couples who will all have adopted angels all from the same tiny orphanage!! God is good!!

Care Package

In December Lacey's brother and sister-in-law traveled to Ethiopia to pick up Isaiah. At that point in the process we were officially "linked" to M. That allowed us to send a care package with them to personally deliver to M. Oh I so wish we could show the pictures and the videos of that interaction! We are so thankful for the timing that allowed M. to meet his aunt and uncle, and for them to explain who we were and share our package and family pictures with him. Those pictures and videos of him with our package make it so real and help to make the waiting tolerable.



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