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Here we go We are getting ready to head out to go to pick up our children. We have a tentative Embassy date of February 2 nd. Please everyone pray we get word that the papers are all in and cleared!!!! We will return home on February 6 th and be home for a HUGE FAMILY REUNION.

Anyone in the area of OHare International Airport around 130 that afternoon is welcome to stay and welcome our children into the family.

Pray Gods will is done and that ALL glory and honor are to HIM and HIM alone!!!!!

Thank you all

Bridget

Let's GO!!

Well friends...Thank you!!!
We are going to pick up our children in the next couple weeks. I prayed not to long ago that we could all be together for Valentines day and God is faithful.
The girls are beside themselves with joy and ready for the sleepovers they get to have while Rich and I are out of country.
Thank you all ahead of time for your prayers on travel, connecting with kids, and blending the family. These are three things I have been praying for and I would love for you to join me.
Rich has been working hard to raise up the funds for our final travel and the kids Visas.
The house is as ready as it can be and as for me...I am getting there.
I will post soon with the homecoming pictures!!!!
LeAnn will come on while we are out there and she will update everyone.
Thank you all one more time, I cant express my gratefulness.
Bridget

2 more weeks??

Well friends we are back to the beginning...not really but, I think we have read this before. I heard today there is a little more paperwork on the other end that needs to be completed. Then we are going. I am ready when they call. We have received donations from some very kind and wonderful friends(Scott & Traci), had a beautiful shower(thank you all), and now we are awaiting the fly now call(email).

I can not tell you all how crazy it is. I feel as I sit in His rest with the peace only He can give me I can not help but to want to DO MORE. I am going to read a book and stay packed so I am ready on to go asap! We have so many people offering to help and I can not tell you how grateful we are to have ALL OF YOU!!!

LeAnn has started her fine arts program today and then tomorrow her book club starts, and finally back to school on Tuesday! This year has allot to offer her and she is going for it all.

Laryssa and I are going to check out a dance school nearby, that is her passion and I see how much she misses it. She is also getting back into Olympians and school this week, not so eager but ready. She misses her friends and is looking forward to seeing them all.

Rich has the studio running, this family studying, and his mind is, as always on overtime. He is so wonderful and we as a family are very grateful for his dedication and hard work.

And as for me....well I am just a "Girl Gone Wise!" This is my year to be in His peace. I am ready to loose the I and move on to the HE. I have learned in the past few months that man no matter how much they love you they will and do hurt you. It is never about me I need to always make everything about HIM. My goal is simple Honor and Glorify the one who created me. OK not so simple but it is what I am going to strive for.

I thank you all for reading and praying for us. Soon I will be able to show some real cool complete family pictures, and I mean REALLY COOL!

Thank you all for everything and remember to respond to this if you wish or inbox me on face book. I long for prayer and support during this waiting season. I will post soon as I hear and let you all know when we will be home.

Still waiting :(

Well I do wish I had better news but as of today they still have no confirmation for us. I am just resting in the fact that this is not my doings and I will travel for my children when HE says. There is no paperwork out of order. The families are all in check, the agency has done all they need to, so now we are waiting for the Embassy. They are running a little behind do to holidays so, I am trying to be patient.

Yes I do appreciate all your prayers and now I need you to pray for me to be content. OK with the timing, OK with the waiting, and OK with things moving at the pace of someone else.

Thank you all for all you have been doing. I know I would never be able to get through this alone. I first thank GOD! then my (dh) darling husband and my (dc) darling children, and then all of YOU!!!!

Please keep praying I am ready to go so if the word comes in we may leave FRIDAY!!!!

Happy New Year!!!!!

Saying goodbye to one year and moving into the next is pretty exciting. I wonder what it will hold? I am looking forward to the completion of the adoption. We are all ready for the newest family members to come home and we can begin to blend. I know you have all been praying for us and we are ever thankful.
LeAnn started a new curriculum this year and is doing very well. She is looking forward to a new season of softball. She is also looking for babysitting jobs, so if any of you readers are close and in need send me your number and I will have her call you.
Laryssa is also doing a new curriculum. She is having a great time and really learning. Not that she wasn't learning before but this is different. She has also decided to return to dance. She really loves to dance but in the past she was not sure, but now she is VERY sure.
WE as a family are enjoying seeing all the new adventures in front of us. We all thank you readers and followers for everything.
Have a safe and happy New Year!!!!!
Bridget

Sit and wonder

Dear friends
I am sitting and thinking back on 2010. I am so amazed how God has put people into our path that helped us in our adoption process, as well as helped me grow SO MUCH closer to Him.
In this past year I have met a number of women and some of their husbands and children. All of which have adopted. Not all from Ethiopia but most. I am so blessed by their stories and suggestions. I have taken everything they have given to me and prayed on it. God had allowed me to use things now and has placed some away for when my children come home.
This summer was a highlight of my year. I was able to be a part of Gods work in such a way I could not ever have planned it myself. I was able to take the talents He gave to me and us them to glorify Him. In the process of this I learned lots of things, one having boys in the all girl house. I never knew how gross yet cool boys are. I never saw the soft side of a teen boy and the mean side of the quiet ones( girls or boys). I have been blessed beyond that I deserve.
The end of the year is hard yet happy for me. I am ready to close this year and say hello to all the new and wonderful thing God has for our family, yet I feel like I am loosing a very special time I had too. I thank all of you out there who I have met, been a part of a get together, and those who I have only seen in a distance one fine day.
This year has been wonderful and well educational. I have grown so much spiritually and have had the pleasure to hurt for His glory. When we first started this adoption I felt God was calling us to a huge plan and I realized I tried to steer the wheel of His ship.After I was knocked into the back seat and submitted to the people who are the professionals and allowed them to do what they know how, God placed before us two beautiful children. I am still waiting the day for our return for them, but I know to be still and rest in HIS arms.
God has been awesome in our life, family , and in me. I thank you all for every prayer you prayed and all your support in every way possible.
I may not know who you all are but I do appreciate everyone of you more than fingers can type.
Thank you all
In Christ Name
Bridget
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Merry CHRISTmas!!!!

Hello all,
I am pleased to say this year was one learning lesson after another. I enjoyed every up and down. I feel I learned a lot about what Gods will for me is and I am finally comfortable with the truth. I am not the same person I was in the beginning of 2010 and I will enter 2011 even more changed.
I am happy to say we were able to be home with these two children for Christmas but my heart was thinking of my other two who were not here. I am in constant prayer that we will get the January Embassy date so they will be home soon. Rich and I are both very content with the time line God has for us. Each time I try to move forward on my own I feel His hand. I thank all of you for wonderful support and prayers.
Looking into next year is all I can say is WOW lots to look forward to!!
Thank you all
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year
Bridget