Court Date!

This past Wednesday morning I was doing my regular babysitting in Macker's class at church during our women's Bible study. My phone rang but when I said hello they were already gone. I noticed that the call was from our adoption agency and my heart started to race. About 3 minutes later Scoot peaked his head in the door (yes, he's in the same building) with a huge smile on his face...
"We're going to Ethiopia!!!! APRIL 5th is our court date!!"
Our Bible story that morning was about Hannah and how she prayed and prayed for a child and God answered her prayers and gave her S*****!

This is my little Mac giving Baby S***** his bottle.

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We booked our tickets this morning. We leave on March 30th. It's spring break for the kids so they will be going to my parents house in Iowa. Please pray for all the details to come together. Thank you all for being excited with us.

FYI- We will not be bringing him home this trip. This is a trip to stand before an Ethiopian judge and tell them that we want to be his parents. After we pass court we are submitted to embassy which could take anywhere from 3 to 12 weeks. When we have embassy clearance then I will go back and get him. (Anyone want to join me?!)

Care Package

Our first care package is in the mail on it's way to Indiana. There is another adoptive family that will be leaving to pick up their little boy from Ethiopia in the next week and they offered to take a little something to S*****. They also said they would give him some love for us. (Thank you!) We can't wait for new pictures.

We are still waiting to hear when our court date is scheduled. Please pray that it's SOON!!