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!

Approval!

We finally received our approval! It came last week and we are pumped. The average length from this time until travel is 3-4 months. Not quite sure if those timelines will hold for us. Several families received approvals about 1 month before us, so their timing may give us a better idea.

It is very exciting to be able to write this post!

spring posting

It has been a while since we have posted... probably because we haven't heard much. That is okay, it is certainly all God's timing, and we will trust in that. Four families have recently heard news- 3 received referrals and 1 family is still waiting on a referral. Hopefully that means that things are moving along, we have been waiting almost 6 months and that means that we are getting closer!

We had a garage sale last weekend that went very well- the weather cooperated and we sold most of what we had collected. Thank you to all our friends who generously donated!

It is raining hard here today. We need the rain :)

Enjoying this Saturday.

christmas pics

We are at 2.5 months waiting with our Dossier in Rwanda. There are several families in Rwanda now! No adoption news for us so here are some christmas pictures!

smith, parker, sadie

smith, parker, sadie, elliott at the christmas lights

sadie with UB

poppy and sadie

christmas gift: guitar with mic

practicing yoga

snow?

sledding with Bama

our family in snow people