Happy New Year Everyone!

I hope you all had a wonderful year and I hope that 2008 will be a great one! I doubt that it could be any better than this year though! I can't wait to see what the Lord has in store for us. Hopefully another trip to Ethiopia! I will post some pictures and video of the babies soon.

Psalm 68:6

God sets the lonely in families ~ Psalm 68:6

Day 2 ( Finally!! )

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Today we met the girls and they are absolutely gorgeous!! I love them to pieces! We told Josiah that we were going to go get Selam and Fikir and he jumped and said in his squeaky little voice " Selam-Fikir???" (one word to him :) He then ran to get his little backpack and tried to open the hotel door to go get them. It was precious. We drove up to the foster house and they made us wait about 15 minutes to meet them because they were still eating upstairs. Josiah had fallen asleep on the sofa in the 'waiting room' and was very excited to see his sisters when he woke up. Keren acted as if she'd known us forever but Keziah, sheesh. It was pretty funny because we thought she was smiling at us. Turns out it was a 'pre-cry smile' followed by a wail. The caregiver took her back for a minute and calmed her down for us, ever since then she has been the happiest, smiliest little girl you ever did see. After the meeting, we got to go upstairs and see all of the precious babies!! Oh my goodness, they are all soooooo cute!! I wish I could move to Ethiopia and just work in the baby house, or in any of the orphanages for that matter... in fact, maybe I will :) It was awesome and I got to hold tons of precious little ones that I hope will be referred to you all soon! Afterwards, we went to this Italian place and had some weird pizza (pita bread with salami) and headed back to the hotel to rest and hang out with the new babies! A few hours later we went to the older kids foster house and what an emotional time that was! Josiah best friend, Nati, came running up to us and hugged Josiah and they walked around with their arms around each other. After a few minutes of being there, Josiah decide he did not want to be there anymore. I think he thought we were going to leave him so he burst into tears. Poor baby! If only you knew how much we went through to get you! There is NO way we are gonna leave you anywhere :) We then went to Layla House to see the Falchooks kids! It was an amazing time. We were absolutely exhausted so we ate at he Hilton and went to bed early...or late for us. I actually adjusted to the time really well going there and coming home. I just got really sick. I think my immune system freaked. My first time out of the country except Canada AND Texas :) which don't exactly count, I go to Africa. It definitely freaked. We are all healthy now though, for a while hopefully. That is one of the pains of big families. You start the cold and get healthy while it goes around to everyone and then you get it again!! The never ending circle of sickness. Ahh, oh well, there are more joys than pains so we shall continue to be sick... its worth it! Merry CHRISTmas to all!

Congrats to the Falchooks!!

Go over and congratulate our friends at injera hot dog. They FINALLY passed court and will soon be able to bring home their 3 precious new children!!

Referrals Galore!!!!

Congrats to the Breedlove family , The Rooney family and Fairy Good Baby and The Beelers on their referrals!! Day 2 really is coming soon, we've just been a little busy around here for some odd reason :)

Whose baby?

We received an email from someone asking for pictures of their little boy but we lost the email somehow. I think your last name was Hinojosa, so, if you are reading this, please email me so I can send you those pictures! We tried sending them from Ethiopia but we don't think it went through. Thanks! (elliemestas@gmail.com) Here is one.

Kolfe video

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Hooray for the Martins!!

They got a referral for a little girl!!! Felicity Yehualeshet Martin is soon to be the twinettes best friend! I am so excited that they will have a friend from the same little room, in the same little house in Ethiopia and come across the world together and live in the same little town in NC!! We were saying, "How cool it would be if they got 'the dancing baby' that we met in Ethiopia"...and guess what! It was her!! We are so excited for you guys and can not wait for you to bring her home!!! It was so neat to be able to share this experience with you guys, thanks for letting me tag along with Mel!

Hooray for Jocelyn!!

Jocelyn got her referral for a precious baby girl!! We are all so excited for you Jocelyn and can not wait until Pacey is in your arms!

Just for laughs :)

Ok, I just had to post this. Day 2 coming soon! Was that hilarious? Yes.