Busy, Busy, Busy

Well the arrangements have all been made. We leave on June 27th at 6 am and will be staying at the Hilton in Addis. We got a king suite room which I am jazzed about. We hear the Hilton has a kids playground and a pool and a small shopping outlet so we are psyched for the convienence at least. And we were blessed with a travel voucher to use for the room so it is basically free for us. Thanks Lord for that blessing. We are getting excited. Soon to have Abel in our arms.

Count down

Yeah in 5 weeks and 2 days we will be on our way to get our precious Abel. Yeah.

A Court Date!!!!!!!!

Yeah, I just got the email this morning. It will be June 6th 2008. That is the day we will oficially become the mommy and daddy of little Abel. Only 19 days to go. We will then travel about 3 weeks after that when we will have an embassy date assigned to us. we will only need to be in Ethiopia for a week to finalize his adoption. Our hearts are singing.

Happy Endings

Very excited today we just got back into town from going to an indoor waterpark and we recieved a call from the little dog we found. He has an owner. Yeah. They were just sooo happy to get him back . I guess his name is Brody and he was sooo happy to find them again. Apparently his owners are in the process of moving to a new neighborhood when he escaped with their other dog. They found the one dog and just found him, so Happy Story.
On another note we have not heard about our court date yet, but we are still feeling positive that it has been assigned just not communicated to us yet. We heard from our agency that emails are just too difficult to get through. Hopefully on Monday we will get an update and a court date. Apparently our agency is trying a new thing to get bimonthly updates on all the referred kids to the waiting parents with a couple pics. But I guess its just way too hard with the internet situation as it is right now. Please pray that we hear some news soon as well.
Also I am so happy to say that my arthritis seems to be going into a remission . Praise God. I couldn't take feeling that bad anymore. Its amazing how well the steroids worked and allow me to become pain free. Now just praying the relief lasts a looooong time. (like years). I wil need to be in my tip top shape to keep up with my two, 2 year olds.

I swear the medicine made me do it.

So for this past week I have been on a very heavy dose of corticosteroids to get my arthritis back under control. It is working wonderfully, i haven't felt this great in months but these drugs make me CRAZY. I shouldn't be made accountable for anything I say or do for this week. And I certainly should not sign any legal documentation HAHA. So last night I found a home for the little highway dog. He went to my Brothers house . I think this will work out great. My brother has a very unruly Beagle named Jack. Jack is an insane dog. He has anxiety and will chew up a couch if my Brother leaves him alone for any length of time. This has caused some despair between my brother and his live in girlfriend. So I brought this older male dog over who quickly dominated my brothers dog and now they are best buds. They played till midnight last night then curled up together on the couch and fell asleep together. Jack has never slept on the couch he is always on the bed with my brother. Looks like Jack is going to learn to be a dog and have a best bud too. Happy ending, except as we were leaving my 2 year old caught a glimpse of kittens as we were leaving , She promptly picked one up and with her precious little face said "kitty mama". How do you say No to that. So my Brother said we could work out a deal 1 dog for 1 kitten. Frank needless to say is just shaking his head at me right now. I'm not even a cat person. What the hell am I thinking. Lord help me. But it is a really cute fluffy calico type. I'll post some pics later.

More News and a new visitor to our family

So we heard from Ethiopia today that Abels paperwork has been accepted by the courts and we are awaiting to hear of the court date that will be issued. YEAH. They told us the power will be out on Thurs so don't expect to hear that day but Friday is a real possibility. At this point I 'm not so anxious over it. I'm just relieved to know we are moving forward. Yeah. In other news, my dear bleeding heart husband was driving to work this morning and on the highway on a suspension bridge was a very frightened soon to be ran over dog. The dog was paralyzed with fear. My husband in his large construction truck promptly diverted traffic and got the little dog in his truck. Afterwhich he had me drive downtown to get the dog. Very cute Looks to be an older Brussels Griffon/terrier mix. I think he has a home thugh. he's housetrained, knows the sit command and loves people. We have ads in the paper, called the shelters, and are putting up flyers tonight. Please pray we find an owner or new home. I can't have 3 dogs, 1 litter trained rabbit and 4 kids in the house. My God I'm not Superwoman. On the side note is my husband is kindof liking the dog Ughhh.

Some news

OK so our agency spoke with Ethiopia today and our papers are going to our version of the " Clerk of Courts" tomorrow Friday. It will take 3 business days to stamp Abels and our paperwork there , then it will be presented to the Judge perhaps by Wed. when we will be given our court date. From what I understand its given usually 4 weeks later on a Monday so that puts us June 16th. Then we will need to be there 4 weeks later for our embassy appointment to get our son. It looks like mid July for us. Praise God. What was really cute is that in an email from Ethiopia they refer to Abel as Abel Sereika already. That really touched Frank and I alot. We are getting ecstatic to bring him home and his bed is ready already for him. The dresser is full of clothes as well. All we need is a little boy to put in the bed and clothes .