Adoption Update

To prepare for this update, I thought it would be a good idea to re-read my last update again and see where I left off. Reading again about our first trip was just the encouragement I needed. It still just feels so surreal to me, and I think "Did all of that really happen?". I know it did, but it just seems like it was so long ago! Remembering our goodbyes, brought tears to my eyes. I know that I get to see them on the computer every week, but remembering what it was like to hold them, hug them, kiss them... and now I am crying again!

 

I don't know how to explain how I am feeling, but I will try. I miss those girls SO much that sometimes my heart just aches. But then, in the next moment, I think of how inadequate I am to be a mother, and I am so scared to get them home and mess them up. This all translates into a huge jumble of fear, sadness, doubts, love and many other emotions that settle into the pit of my stomach. Lately though, God has sent me a lot of encouragement! Our church service last week was about waiting, and why God makes us wait. I am not ready! Not, "their room is not ready", or "we don't have all the money yet", but "God is not finished preparing me yet". I have been reminded that I need to focus on my spiritual walk with God, and that is what will prepare me to be a mother. Like I said before, I am inadequate, but my God is more than adequate!! He is all I need! A wonderful new mother in my church has been such an encouragement to me lately too. I look around at moms who "have it all together" and think, how am I ever going to have it all together like them? I have nothing together! But this mom explained to me that everyone feels this way, no one is perfect and we all have doubts. And from the outside, I look like I have it all together too! Oh. God has brought this woman into my life to tell me exactly what I need to hear. I need to stop depending on my own abilities and remember that "I can do all things through Christ, who strengthens me..." Thank you!

Back to the girls. So we still Skype with them every Sunday morning. We only have a translator there every other week, and it's actually more fun when she's not there. We are then forced to communicate and understand each other through motions and facial expressions. And if all else fails, we go to the weekly staple of arguing back and forth about which is better, chocolate or vanilla ice cream! Dad and A like vanilla, mom and E like chocolate. We can go back and forth on this topic for several minutes! :) The girls have always been told about adoption, and that they would have parents one day. So they understand the concept. They even call their foster parents, aunt and uncle. But remember, they are only 7 and have been with this foster family since they were 4, so this is the only family that they remember. They are very attached to this family, which is great, because a lot of orphaned children have trouble attaching to anyone. But it is so hard to think of taking them away from this family who clearly loves them and takes very good care of them. When I thought about "saving an orphan", I thought that we would be taking them from a dirty orphanage where they get no love and attention. But they are in a loving, safe, and stable home. There are two things that are helping me cope with this: 1) Since June of 2007, we have been praying that God would prepare us for adoption one day, and that we would take care of and protect our children, whoever and wherever they may be. This foster family is the answer to that prayer. They are loving and protecting our children until we can bring them home. And 2) They are not learning about Christ in their foster home. I often think, "Can I be as good of a mom to these girls as the foster mom? What makes me think they will be better off with us, than staying where they are?". Our ultimate goal is not to "save" orphans from a dirty, nasty orphanage; but for Christ to "save" them from a dirty, nasty life of sin and separation from Him. I may not understand all these little questions and doubts that have crept into my mind. But I do understand that God has called us to adopt these girls, and I should not question His Will. So I will follow down this road that He has lead us on, and trust Him to show us the way.

So, where are we in the process? Well, all we need is a court date! This court date will be the day that we are legally declared the parents of our girls. We don't have to be there for court, there is lawyer who will be there for us. We were assigned to a judge at the end of July. We knew that the judges all take vacation for the month of August, so we waited patiently for September to come. But we still didn't get a court date. I asked our agency about it, and told me that our Judge has been there for a long time, so she gets EXTRA VACATION! One month isn't enough, let's give her two! Ughhh! So now we have to wait until October for her to come back to the office. And of course, September has been the slowest moving month of this entire year! Best case scenario: We get our court date scheduled as soon as she gets back, and court would be in mid-October, we could then travel in 4 weeks to get them in mid-November. Of course if anyone drags their feet (That doesn't happen in the government, does it?) then it could be later. Our hope is that we can at least have them home for Christmas this year.

Please pray for us as we wait, pray for patience, but also pray that God prepares all 4 of us to be a family for Him. We also still don't have all the money that we will need to finish the process, so pray that God will provide, as He always has. Our wonderful church is throwing us an "Adoption Shower" to help us prepare for the girls, and they have also set up a money tree to help with fees. This is such a huge blessing for us!!! We have heard back from only 1 more of the grants that we applied for, they approved us for a $1,000 grant! Yay! If you would like to help financially to bring these girls home, there a t-shirt fundraiser on the right hand side, at the top of the blog. They are only taking orders until the end of this month, and then they are closing for good. So, hurry and get your shirt. You can also donate to Paypal, also on the right, top of the blog.

Or you can donate to:
Lifesong for Orphans
202 N. Ford St. - PO Box 40 

Gridley, IL 61744
write in the memo line: preference Hansen #2821

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Our first family meeting

We are long overdue for a blog update... It seems like it has been go, go, go since we got back in country. But here we go...

We finally had our first trip to Bulgaria at the end of May. We have been talking about this country for almost 3 years and finally got to go there. I (Kathy) was dreading the flights!! In fact, on our very first flight, I actually said that I wished we didn't have to do this. As we were taxiing down the runway, I seriously thought that I wanted to tell them to stop the plane because I couldn't do it. Of course, I couldn't do that, so I just squeezed Justin's hand and prayed that God would keep us safe. We were either in an airplane or airport for 24 hours straight, it was exhausting!! But after 3 planes rides and 2 pat downs (both on me of course, because I look so dangerous), we made it safely to Bulgaria.

We got through customs, got our luggage and found our driver. The first thing she tells us is that there is another family that will be with us. What? Another family? Just riding with us from the airport? Oh no, they will be with us the entire time! We were not told about that. I can't say that we were happy about having to share this experience with a couple that we didn't know. But more about them later.

We packed up all of our stuff and got to see the capital city, Sofia. I would love to say that it was beautiful, but I can't. It is a huge city, but very cramped. There are cars parked everywhere, good luck finding a spot. And every building was covered in graffiti! Thankfully, our much beloved family pastor had gotten us a free hotel, and it was in the business part of Sofia. This part is much nicer, and it was a 5-star hotel!! It was AMAZING, thanks Rich and Barbie! So we got to the hotel, and tried to stay up a little longer so we could sleep through the night. I think I made it until about 8pm, Justin conked out sometime before that.

View from our hotel

 

The next day, we left early to drive to the city where the kids were. {Fun fact: In Bulgaria, they actually drive on the right side of the road.} This city was at least 5 hours away! So both couples, along with 2 translators, and all six of our luggage crammed into one car to make the trip. It was not the most comfortable situation. Now, we had been warned about the driving in Bulgaria, by another couple. So I was prepared for it to be bad, and it was! But even though they all drove too fast and cut each off and followed too closely, I was encouraged by the fact that we didn't see any wrecks at all. Then as we were turning around after a missed turn, a big truck ran into us!! No one was hurt, just shocked, and really there was minimal damage. (The name on the truck was "Speedy", ironic huh?) But the police report took over an hour on our already 5 hour trip. Ugh!! Don't these people realize that we are on our way to meet our children for the first time?!

With our new Bulgarian cop friend.

 

 

Anyways, off we go again... So, the closer we got to the city, the more nervous we got. How do I describe this feeling? It was kind of like the feeling you would get on a first date, you think... I hope they like me, I hope they think I'm pretty, I hope I'm everything they've dreamed I would be... Most parents know their children from the first day they were born, but our children will have a first impression of us, that they will probably remember for the rest of their lives. How nerve-racking is that? We were told that the kids were already there, so as we walk up to the municipal building, my eyes are darting around everywhere to try and catch a glimpse of them. We come up to the office door and I think, they must be inside. So we are psyching each other up, getting excited, and we open the door... and they aren't in there. Just a bunch of social workers who want to talk to us first. Oh, ok. So, do we have any questions for them? Um, yeah, where are my kids? Like I can think of questions at a time like this. So they gave us some good information about the girls and their history and then they move on to the other couple. We sit back and relax, thinking that it will be a while until we were finished and... in walk our girls! Wait, this wasn't the big moment that I dreamed of when we finally get to see our kids face-to-face. I shouldn't be surprised, nothing has happened the way I thought it would so far. We shuffled into another room and gave the girls some presents (coloring books and crayons). As they colored, we just sat next to them and tried to interact as much as we could. We had been told that on the first day they would just tell them that we were friends, and not that we were there to adopt them. Apparently, some people have backed out of the adoption after the first day, so they do this to protect the children. It was a little weird, because there was no chance of us backing out, but we just went along with it. Well, one of the girls, A, asked the social worker if we were going to adopt them and she told them yes. So they got super excited and said "Mom! Daddy!" in their little Bulgarian accents. Talk about your heart just breaking! I wasn't quite prepared for that in the first 10 minutes! I would have thought that them calling me mom would be overwhelming and emotional, but they are my kids and honestly, it felt normal and natural. They told the translator that they thought I was pretty and liked my hair because they had pictured me with long hair. Whew! Thank goodness, their first impression was good. I had been so worried, but they took to me right away. Dad was a different story though, they honestly didn't care much for him at first. The second girl, E, would go to him, but that was just because A was "hogging mommy" (her own words). We had been prepared for something like this to happen, but for some reason, Justin thought it would go the other way and they would take to him first. He was definitely disappointed. We then took the girls out to the playground. They have a lot of energy! They only wanted to come to mom, but then dad started picking them up, spinning them around and putting them on his shoulders. They wanted me to do this too, but I said that only dad does that kind of stuff, so they would want to go to him. So then they wanted daddy because he could do the fun stuff, and they still wanted mom, well, because I'm MOM! :) This definitely helped them to start bonding with dad too. We spent a few hours with them and then left to go to the hotel, it was a long, hot, exhausting day, so we were ready to go. The six of us (both couples and the 2 translators) went to dinner together. In Bulgaria, you better have a couple of hours for a meal, they are in no rush. {Fun fact: They don't bring out every one's food at one time, they bring it out whenever it's ready. Some people might be completely finished before others have any food.}     

Some of our amazingly delicious Bulgarian food! Yum!!

 

The next day, we got to go to the girls school and watch them do their "repetition". We really had no idea what this meant. It was basically what we would call a rehearsal for their kindergarten graduation. We were told that they needed the girls to come because they had big parts in the program, but we had no idea how big! They were involved in every song and dance, and they each had their own speaking parts! There were about 50 kids, and our girls were picked out to do 2 of the 3 speaking parts. They were also picked to be 2 of the 4 dancers in what we call the "Umbrella dance". We were pleasantly surprised at how well they did. The are so smart and talented, we are so blessed! I am so glad that we were allowed to go watch them, and of course I video taped it, but I can't post it yet. The girls also got to introduce us to some of their friends and teachers while we were there. It almost makes us sad to be taking them away from the school where they are thriving. But we have to remember that their future as orphans in Bulgaria isn't good. God had a plan to bring us all together, and we should just be thankful that they are in a good situation while we can't be with them.

 

The next couple of days were pretty much the same. We would meet the girls in the morning at the park, play for a few hours, go eat lunch, play for several more hours and then send them to their foster home. We basically spent the entire days in the park outside where it was very hot. We were exhausted everyday! {Fun fact: In Bulgaria, they nod their head up and down for "no" and side to side for "yes", the opposite of us. This is very confusing in conversations!}

 

On the last day with the girls, we only got until lunch to be with them because we had to drive the 5 hours back to Sofia that night. I had been fine emotionally for the whole trip so far, I hadn't cried once. But as we walked up to the foster mom, I knew that this was the last time I would see them for several months. Our adoption coordinator had told us not to cry in front of the girls, so I tried my hardest to hold it in until they were walking away. We gave our hugs and kisses and said our "I love yous" (Justin taught them how to say it in English). I did it, they were walking away and so I let the tears fall. Well, after they had only gone a few steps, they turned around to wave and I could see the concerned looks on their faces because mom and daddy were crying. We tried to smile through the tears so they wouldn't worry or get upset. For the next 50 yards or so, they practically walked backwards so they could wave and blow kisses to us. It was very sweet, but torture at the same time. I just needed to break down, but had to keep it together. They weren't supposed to see us walk away, so we had to stand there until they went around the corner. We then went into the office to do an exit interview. I wasn't able to say anything but "thank you" to the social workers as I was bawling my eyes out. I knew our goodbyes would be hard, but you just can't prepare yourself for a moment like that. We had waited almost 3 years to meet our children. Then after only a few days with them, we had to say goodbye not knowing when we would see them again. It's heartbreaking!

 

All in all, we had a wonderful time. We got to know our kids personalities, their likes and dislikes, their faults and strengths... the list goes on and on. This was an experience that the 4 of us will never forget! We have tons of stories about the girls and the trip, but there isn't enough time or space to write them all now.

 

Back in Sofia, we didn't have anywhere to stay, because we came back a day earlier than we thought we would. This is where that other couple comes in... We had not been happy at all to have another couple with us at first, nothing against them personally, we just didn't want to share our experience with people we didn't know. But after the first day, I realized how great it was to have them... someone else who was American and spoke fluent English that we could talk to... another first time mother meeting her kids and knowing exactly how I was feeling... we definitely bonded! So, when we had no where to stay in Sofia, they offered to share their "apartment" with us. It was 2 bedrooms, and we were able to split the cost so we each saved money. It also gave us the opportunity to spend more time together and talk about everything. God knew what we needed and what would be best for us, even though we didn't agree at first. God is so good!

 

The next day, we signed the papers to officially accept the girls for adoption and to change their names!! {Not-so-Fun fact: We are not allowed to post the girls names, pictures, location, or any personal information until the adoption is finalized.}

 

 

We then had 2 days to explore the country before we came back home. I got in contact with a missionary to Macedonia, which is right next to Bulgaria, through  a co-worker. She happened to be in Sofia that same weekend, so we were able to get together. She could understand the language and she was able to drive. It's amazing how God works things out. She took us to the top of the mountain, the one in the picture above. And accidentally (because we got lost) to the historic Boyana church.

 

       

We got to hear all about how she became a missionary and why in Macedonia. Justin said he knew that he had just met her, but felt like he'd known her for years. She was such a blessing.

On Sunday, our missionary friend Betty, took us to the International Baptist Church in Sofia. It was wonderful to be in a room full of people speaking English. Many of the missionaries there were from America and one was actually from Virginia! But the best part was being able to sing praises to our Lord and Savior after the most amazing adventure that He brought us on. We spent the rest of that day exploring more of Sofia and preparing for our trip back home.

 

 

 Since we have been back, we have been able to Skype with the girls every Sunday morning. It lasts about an hour. It is a little frustrating because they don't speak much English, but we wave, smile, blow kisses and make faces at each other. We do have an English tutor who is teaching them a couple of lessons a week. We were told that they won't be fluent from these lessons, but it is good mental preparation for the transition. They are very smart, and very excited to learn English so we think and hope that they will catch on quickly.

 

There are 4 steps that need to happen for us to go back and bring the girls home. It is all government and court stuff that I will not bore you with. We have passed the first 2 steps and hope to reach the third one by the end of July. However, the Bulgarian government shuts down for the month of August, so nothing will happen during that month. They will pick it back up in early September, and we are told that there is a 4-6 week time frame to reach that last step. Which means that if everything goes well, we should be planning our second trip in October!!!

 

We still have 2 fees left to pay, the first one is covered by a grant that we received a while back, the second is the largest international fee, $8,900. But after that fee, all that's left is travelling expenses. For the second trip, we will have to be in country for 10 days, this is to take care of all legal, visa, and medical stuff that needs to be done before the girls can leave the country. But we will have the girls with us the entire time, and will be there legal parents. We estimate the remaining cost to be about $15,000 (includes the last fee, travel and in-country costs). That sounds like a lot of money, but somehow God will provide. He has seen us through the entire process so far, and we trust that He will see us through to the end! We have applied for 5 additional grants and have only heard back from 1 (we didn't get that one). Please pray that we hear back soon from the other 4, with good news. Also, pray that we would have peace and patience through the next several months and that God would be preparing all 4 of us to be one family! 

 

Thank you to all of our friends and family!! We would not have gotten this far if it wasn't for your love, encouragement, prayer support and financial support. We can't begin to explain how much it means to us! We have been amazed at how our God works, and our faith and trust in Him continues to grow daily.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Light at the end of the tunnel...

    Well, we got our answer about the 3 kids that I wrote about previously. We are not getting them! We found out about a month ago, but I was in no place to write about it. We had fallen in love with those children, we had started making plans and choosing names for those children. The day we were told "no" to them was by far the lowest day of the adoption process for us. We really felt that God had worked everything out perfectly for these kids, so getting a "no" was very confusing for us. I still don't really know what God was doing through that whole situation, and I may never know. But we have to trust that God knows what is best and that His Will is better than ours. We found out at the same time, that we had gotten our official referral. This is what we have been waiting on for almost 3 years. Of course, we were so sad about losing the 3 kids that we weren't able to even look at our referral. This should have been a wonderful day, but it was horrible. This wasn't how it was supposed to happen. But we had to grieve those 3 kids. When Justin came home that day, he cried like I have never seen him cry, and we just held each other. I cry now just thinking about how hurt we were. The pain was unbearable, I begged God to take it away. And by the end of that next day, He had just turned my heart around and helped me to get past all of that hurt. Justin had a little harder time with it, it took him a bit longer. He had gotten himself a little more invested into those kids, where I had guarded myself more. It was great to see how excited he was getting, but then it hurt him even more when we didn't get them.

    The only thing that we had gotten from our official referral was pictures, we didn't have any other information. The pictures were so sad, not good pictures at all. So going from 3 happy smiling children to these sad, scared looking children was hard. We didn't get that immediate "those are my children" feelings. I don't know what we expected, but we thought we would just know the moment we set our eyes on them. We didn't. In fact we were so confused about the whole situation that we really didn't even talk about the referral much.

    A few days later, we got more information, more pictures and then videos for our referral. They are absolutely beautiful twin, 6 year old girls. They are healthy and gorgeous! Justin was disappointed to not be getting any boys anymore, but he went Barbie shopping for the first time and loved it! I swear, they already have him wrapped around their little fingers and he hasn't even met them yet. :) Needless to say, we said "yes" to them!!! Today is my very first mother's day as a mother!! I don't get to hold my children in my arms today, but they are in my heart. Just knowing who they are and being able to look at their faces is enough for me right now.

    We have probably about 8 or 9 videos of the girls, but everything is in Bulgarian. It is great to see them interacting, but we have no idea what is going on or what they are talking about. Justin had the opportunity to meet with a lady that is from Bulgaria a couple of weeks ago. I probably mentioned her in a previous blog, we just met her by chance (really by God) about 2-3 years ago and have kept up with her through Facebook. She agreed to watch the videos and translate them for us so we would know what is going on. There is one video where one of the girls gets excited, throws her hands in the air and starts jumping up and down. We were wondering what she was getting so excited about. Well, one of the adults had told her that a family in America was looking to adopt them and that's when she gets all excited and she actually says "mom and dad" while she is jumping up and down. My heart broke when I found about that. These girls understand what is going on, they want to be adopted, they are excited about it.

    We fly out to meet them in just a few days!! I am excited and scared and nervous, just about every feeling and emotion is going through us right now. After almost 3 long years of waiting, we get to meet our children in just a few days. We don't get to bring them home yet, we will have to leave them there during the court process which will take between 3-5 months. But hopefully in the fall we will be flying back to get them and bring them home.

When I first started this blog, I talked about how Justin and I had started praying that God would prepare us for adoption before we were even married. Well, we met in April 2007, and after only a couple of months we had talked about getting married and our desire to adopt one day. So about June 2007 is when we started praying about it. Well, our girls were born in June 2007!! God knew exactly what He was doing when He brought us together and has been working out His plan all this time. God is SO good!

    Please pray for us as we fly out to meet them. I have never been out of the country and Justin has only been to Canada. This is definitely going to be a culture shock for us both. Also, our girls do not speak any English and I can only say a few phrases in Bulgarian. We will have an interpreter, but pray that we can all bond and attach to each other. Pray for all of us as we have to leave without them, I know that is going to be VERY hard for everybody. Also, pray that the rest of the finances are provided. We recently had a party/fundraiser where our goal was to raise $4,000. We had a great turn out and ended up raising $3,500. Then we had a few donations come in the mail from people who couldn't make it to the party which put us within about $5 of our goal! I don't know how we ever doubt God, when He always comes through in the most amazing ways! So this trip is totally funded. We will have 2 more fees that will come due during the court process and then it's just the second trip expenses and we are done. All in all, we are looking at less than $15,000 away from everything being completely paid for. I know that sounds like a big number, but God has supplied in big ways this whole time. We have had such amazing support from family, friends and church family. God has blessed us so much and these girls are going to be a part of an amazing family (including our church family!). I can't wait to meet them and hold them for the very first time, this has been a LONG time coming! :)

The Newest Developments

It has been quite a while since I have updated the blog. There are a couple of reasons for that: I don't know what to write and nothing has been happening. We started this process back in August of 2011, for those who are trying to figure it out, it has been 2 and a half years, and we are still childless! Needless to say, this has been an extremely LONG and DAUNTING process!!! Within the last several months, I have gotten very discouraged. We started this process with so much excitement about becoming parents, giving hope to orphans and following God's leading in our lives. That excitement dwindled down little by little until it resembled hopelessness. This past Sunday, at church, we read the verse Ecclesiastes 3:11 "He has made everything beautiful in its time..." I may look at the last 2 and a half years as a lifetime, but to God, it's like a day. He never said that if we follow His leading that it will be quick and easy! In fact, I think it is usually the opposite. If being in God's Will were the easy thing to do, then wouldn't everyone be doing it without question? It takes faith and trust to follow God, and that is where the rewards come from. I have grown more in my personal walk with God, in my trust and faith in God, and in my marriage since we started this process. Whether we bring home kids or not, that growth is priceless to me. That being said, I still want to bring home some kids!! : )

A few weeks ago, we got an unofficial referral... this is the same situation that we were in a few months ago with the little boy that I wrote about. This referral was sent to another couple who were not able to accept them. So our agency asked us to look at it and see if we were interested. Now, when we first started the adoption process, we wanted to be open to whatever God has for us. So we didn't say "no" to very much. We originally thought that we would like 2 children. In Bulgaria, they don't split siblings, so if they don't all get adopted together, then they don't get adopted at all. We were blessed with a beautiful home with 3 empty bedrooms, we don't have any children right now, so we felt God leading us to bring in more than 1 child. Not everyone is able to adopt more than 1 at a time. So our agency put us down to accept between 1 and 3 children, between the ages of 18 mos and 6 years old, but preferring 2 children. Since it has taken so long, our preferences have changed, God has opened our hearts to ANYTHING that He chooses to bless us with.

So this unofficial referral is for 3 siblings, ages 4, 5 and 7. They are beautiful children!!! I wish I could post pictures, so you could see their adorable faces, but I can't! Getting 3 children at one time is extremely scary, specially since they don't know any English. This is a huge decision! It took us less than a day to decide that we wanted these children as our own! How exciting, right? There are a few hitches though. We said "yes" to these children, but Bulgaria still has to say "yes" to us. Since this wasn't our referral in the first place, they still have to look at our information and decide if they think we are a good match for these children. Since our paperwork says that we are approved to adopted children up to age 6, we have to change that. Sounds easy enough, right? Well, it's not! We have to get an addendum to our home study to change that one little number from a "6" to an "8". That's one whole week and $100. Then we have to send that to our government for them to approve the change. That's another 4-6 weeks, and $360. Then we have to notarize all of this paperwork and have it authenticated, which is possibly another week and several more dollars. Then it all goes to our agency, then over to Bulgaria after being translated. Once Bulgaria gets all of this, then they will review it, and we will have an answer from them in about 3-4 weeks. All of this just to change one little number, and then they could still say no!!

At this point, we are in the 4-6 week stage of waiting for our government's approval. And we are looking at about 2 more months before we get an official answer regarding these children. So imagine this, after 2 and a half years, we finally have pictures and information on children that could be ours. We have said yes, and for the next 2 months, we have to be patient and try not to think of these kids as ours yet, because it's possible that Bulgaria could say no to us. This is agonizing!!! Now, like I said before, not many families are able to take in 3 children at one time. In fact, we are the only family in our program who is able to do so. (We have been called "one in a million") We are praying that this works in our favor, and compels the Bulgarian government to say yes to us.

Please pray for us during this time. We REALLY want to bring these children home, we are falling in love with them! Pray that the paperwork process moves quickly, that we have patience in the mean time, and that God works in the hearts of the decision makers in Bulgaria to allow us to give these children a home.

On another note, since we are looking at 3 children, the fees have gone up. We are going to need, at the least, an additional $15,000. Please be in prayer that we can raise/save this money as well. We already have some grant applications filled out and ready to be mailed if we get a yes as well.

Thanks for all of your prayer and support so far!

Don't hesitate to contact us if you have any questions or ideas. And we love getting words of encouragement and wisdom!!! : )