A few pics of yesterday

Here are a few more shots of our time yesterday hanging out at the orphanage. Such beautiful children it breaks our heart that we cannot adopt more!

Check out her dimple! This is our beautiful Eliana.... we are enjoying spending this week with her and lots of her little friends!



Zac teaches Scott how to play ball in the courtyard of the orphanage. They have a nice grassy yard to play in, and the weather is beautiful here! We've been enjoying the sunshine and fresh air! Zac is friends with anyone who has food to share. :) He loves his caretakers, and follows them around and jabbers at them like only a one year old can. They give him lots of tender attention. We are really impressed with the ladies who care for these kids! (14 ladies for 24 kids)



So, I complain all the time to Scott about how skinny Aubrey is... so you know how blessed I felt to show up and find little Eliana in this healthy chunky condition!! She is a super sweet and contented baby! Her caretakers and the older kids at the orphanage all love her and hold her a lot. I haven't seen her cry, but she can definitely smile!

Our internet connection is spotty here, but we will try to post a little more when we can! Thanks to all of you who are keeping all this in your prayers!

Leaving in the morning

Well, we are taking off in the morning heading to Dubai to spend the night and then to Addis Ababa on Sunday morning. Carey's mom arrived today jet-lagged, but ready to hang out with her granddaughters for the week, and they were ready to have her. We are sure they will have a good time together after leaving a list of instructions! Living in a foreign country is even more difficult when you cannot read or understand! But Emily can help with the translation if Nana needs a translator.

We were not sure what to pack, so it feels like we are not taking anything with us. But I guess it is just for court, so as long as we show up, that is the most important thing. The next trip we will probably have to take more. We got everything into one suitcase this time, so we should be traveling light!

Hopefully we will post from Ethiopia . . .

Aubrey waving bye. Ha!

November cruising by

Well, we continue to have great weather these days. Here's Em playing out and about this week.


Hard to believe that it is already November 15. And in just 12 more days we will head off to Ethiopia for our upcoming court date, getting to visit Bangladesh and Dubai along the way to Addis Ababa. We will have like an 8 hour lay over in Dubai, but apparently cannot exit the airport due to an Israeli stamp in our passport from a trip 5 years ago. Go figure. So, from 9:00 PM to 5:00 AM we will have to try and sleep in the airport. We have only seen that they have a 5 star hotel in the airport for like $240 at the cheapest. So, I guess we will try and sleep in an airport seat if at all possible. Yuck!

But, we are looking forward to getting to meet our newest additions to the family, and see how much they have changed since we received their referral pictures several months ago! I am sure that they have changed quite a bit over the last 4 months. It will be such a blessing to begin to get to know them, even though they probably will not remember us when we go back to pick them up in a couple months. So many changes coming in their little lives. We are grateful the Lord has picked them out to be a part of our family.

Our little girls have been having fun playing together and I am sure they will enjoy having more friends to play with too once their little brother and sister arrive!



And then here are a couple more pics from last week's photo shoot.

a few hours of our Saturday....

These were all taken today... enjoying one of the last nice days we'll have for awhile I think.