remembering

Today we went to the court early this morning so that we could state our case for adoption before the judge. We got that done fairly quickly and all seemed to go well. We hope to have a ruling soon! After court we came back to the hotel and had a few hours so we walked around town and ended up at the soccer stadium. They let us in and we watched the Junior Rwandan Team practice for a while. We made it back to the hotel to eat and then meet up with the other families. We went to the Kigali Genocide Memorial which is very well done. The beautiful gardens show the life that goes on next to the mass graves of over 200,000. Inside we were educated on the history of Rwanda, then events that led up to the genocide and the reconciliation after the genocide. There is also a room of pictures that families have sent in of those who were killed. Upstairs was an area dedicated to remembering other genocides throughout history and then a room dedicated to the children that were killed. Very sobering - but Rwanda is certainly healing and growing as a country.

We look forward to visiting our children again tomorrow!

In Rwanda

We are in Rwanda! It is a beautiful country - green and hilly. We have been here about 48 hours and able to see Crew a couple of times! He is precious and starting to show us his personality. Internet is slow and it has been a little difficult to get online, but a break this afternoon has given us some time. The other families that we are traveling with are wonderful and our in country guides are absolutely incredible.

Hopefully more later!

the intuition of a 3 year old

Have you seen Tangled? Probably not the best movie to watch right before you are getting ready to be apart from you kid for a while, but we had a sweet time together with a family movie night.

Sadie loved the movie and after it was over, in her royal fashion, she proclaimed she was Tanglie Hair and that mom was the Queen and dad was the King. We then rehearsed the end scene where they are re-united and hug.

Just what we needed :) - how does a 3 year old know?

BRINGING CREW HOME

Rwanda Bound

We leave for Rwanda on Saturday!! Please pray for our travels, for our time away from Sadie and our little guy. I hope to update the blog while we are in Africa.

Referral!

We have finally received our referral for our sweet boy! Although we cannot share details yet, we are so very excited.

Hopefully more to come soon!