Going to Court!!

We are thrilled and a little surprised tonight - we have our Court Date! WOW! We will be appearing in Court IN ETHIOPIA on APRIL 18!! We were hoping to hear about our Court Date by the end of March, so we are extra thrilled that we have a Date already!

We were so sure that we wouldn't have a Court Date soon, that this morning we had actually finalized plans for a "Cele-funda-shower" for April 19th, but we will soon be figuring out a new date for that between our first and second trip.

To the many of you who have offered to plan a Baby Shower for us - we are most grateful. But, we have these two girls at our house, Anna & Ellie, :-) who are super eager to have a shower for their new sister and have been partnering in the planning of one. They have also been asking us on a daily basis about having one......so, we have agreed to let them plan a shower, thus the "Cele-funda-shower" event mentioned above.

So, now the planning (and yes, a little bit of hysteria) begins! We are so thankful that we recently had a wonderful, special friend who has agreed to stay with our kids while we are gone. That is a huge load off of our minds. This past Saturday, Vicki and the girls went and registered for some of the baby items we will need in preparation for the arrival of our little girl, so we are getting started on setting up the home for her (Target, Babies R Us and Amazon.com - they have some great adoption/multicultural books). Vicki and the kids start Spring Break in 2 days.....and the cleaning, purging and prep work will commence full force.

As always, we are grateful for your prayers and for the fact that so many of you have wept with us as we have wept, and now rejoice as we rejoice. Please keep praying for all the details yet to be put into place - especially the trip dates for the 2nd trip now - we already have Jonathan & Anna at Young Life Camp in June, as well as plans for Ellie & Joshua to attend Camp Geneva in June. We really want them to have those awesome opportunties, but also want them to participate fully in their sister's Homecoming. We trust in the Lord, because He is in the details - He has proven that to us again and again!