Well, I really wanted to have a picture of us with the new Olympic coca cola Ethiopian can but ... I purchased 4 for $10 and then opened them to get out 5 for our photo and they are all the same!! So I have now oped all 4 12 packs and have 1 USA and 3 Thailand! I can not believe they are not assorted! So, if you know me very well, you know I do not give up easy. I have now been to 3 grocery stores, popping in the handle portion on the package and looking through them for Ethiopia!! Yep, that's me in the isles stacking all the coke up and caring that people are walking by wondering "what in the world"? Hey, I got this idea in my head so gotta figure it out. I am actually thinking that I will be heading to our local coke plant and seeing if I can just buy from them there. (I know, some you smart people already thought of that in the beginning!) So for now I am posting a picture of the 5 of us as we are now ~ can't wait for there to be more!! It has been 5 months of waiting and actually we are about # 18 in line for referral ~ I can't believe that we are actually in the teens!! Now if you break it down by requests we about #9 for either gender (pretty sure we would get a boy) and for siblings we are about # 5 or 6!!!! I am staring to think this is really going to happen!!! Now the courts will be closing in about 3 weeks till the 2 week of October so even if we do get our referral say Sept. or Oct. the courts will be back logged and we have to pass court before we can even travel ~ meaning it could be January or February before we are able to bring them home. We just ask that you keep praying and that we will be at peace with "HIS will!!'
There are many families trying to pass court right now before the closure and our Ethiopian coordinator, Duni, is in ET right now doing all she can to get as many as possible through the system. PLEASE pray for them as they obviously do no want to have to look at a picture all summer and not have there children with them.
God is good and we are praising HIM !!!
