Court Date!

Our Court Date is May 8th!  

We have been waiting and waiting for this court assignment and now that it has come, my head is spinning. 

We had to take a quick trip to Rapid City yesterday to renew our fingerprints for the 2nd time, so we took advantage of the drive to call Golden Rule Travel on the east coast and make flight arrangements.  By the end of today we had secured our flight, bought a lap top computer (ours died a couple years ago and don't ask me why we didn't purchase one a couple years ago), and had cancelled all appointments for our week of travel.

God's timing is soo perfect.  I am so grateful that Olivia will not have to miss her beloved HS Choir Concert (we are leaving after it) or her first HS Prom or her A.C.T. test or her AP Psychology test.  Although she would have gladly given them up to travel to Addis to meet her new sisters, I am thankful that she doesn't have to.   Logan takes Algebra I and Science at the Middle School and his teachers have been so accomodating as well.  The only event the kids will miss is Band Day.  We have all decided that no matter what events would have had to be missed, this trip was more important.  All other activities deemed important by our world, definitely pale in comparison to life changing moments such as these. 

We will find out the rest of our travel plans by the end of the week and on Monday we have a travel conference call with America World to answer any questions.  In the meantime, I will be praying, packing, and praying some more.  We are so excited to meet our sweet girls.  Soon I will be able to show you their beautiful faces.


Summary of our journey:

DTE:  5-6-11 (time our paperwork made it to Ethiopia)
RR:  12-17-12 (date of our referral for two sweet girls)
MOWCYA:  4-17-13 (date for approval of adoption by Ethiopian Gov't)
CD:  5-8-13 (date of personal court date)

Recommendation letter

Praise God!  We received a positive recommendation letter today from MOWCYA.  This brings us one step closer to receiving the personal court date where we will travel to Ethiopia to meet our girls.  We are so ready to go. (Well, actually not really.  I am in alittle bit of a panic now that it is becoming real.  You know what I will be doing this weekend.) 

Within the next day or two we will receive our personal court date and will be making plans to travel. I will keep you posted.