Embassy date...

We received an email today saying our embassy date (pickup trip) could be as soon as Oct. 29 or as late as Dec. 23. That's providing everything goes well with the judge at Jerusalem's birth father's court date (Sept 30) and our court date (Oct 12).

We received a new video of Jerusalem today. She's crawling around, smiling and laughing. She is walking with assistance as well. Her hair is starting to grow in very nicely. I am concerned about her belly being so big. It will go down, but it's just hard to see a baby like that.

Please pray for our court hearings to go smoothly and our judge to recognize Jerusalem's birth families decision and our decision on her adoption. Please also pray for a quick embassy date and I also ask for prayers for financial wisdom as we will need to have our agency paid in full by pickup. I know God will provide as he always does!!

I will update more when we get some new information. Again we are not allowed to post pictures of Jerusalem, but if you would like to see I will be more than happy to email you some!

BTW we are still duking it out for who goes for court travel! I think I should go for court and pickup... :-)

Blessings.

Given Ethiopia's guidelines we are not able to share a picture of Jerusalem (Eyerusalem) on the Internet unless it's a secure password protected site. Many people have had problems obtaining access to our blog when we have a password on it. So if you do want to see some pictures (BTW she's gorgeous!!) send me an email and I'll be MORE than happy to send you some!!

We did get official word that only ONE of us needs to travel for court...now we'll just duke out who goes!

Court Date!!!

Our adoption process is moving along....we have our court date...October 12!! YAY!! We are waiting on confirmation from our agency to see if we both have to travel for court. Our plan was for one of us to travel for court and the other for pickup...BUT if we both have to go for, we'll probably flip a coin to see who goes for pickup :-) BTW if I go for pickup anyone want to go with????

We are so thankful for all the wonderful prayers and support! Our garage sale was a huge success, we made almost $1000!!! WOW off of a garage sale! Everyone was so generous! We are applying for grants as we have tapped out our second mortgage on Dominick and Marissa's adoption expenses. We still owe the agency about 5K which doesn't include our airfare, meals and lodging. We know God will provide as he always does.

Blessings!!!