WE'RE ON OUR WAY!

We are SO excited...  and exhausted!  As I type we are at the airport in Ft. Lauderdale getting ready to board to plane to welcome Heidy and Andres into our family!  

I wish I could describe the vast amount of effort, time, love, gifts and prayers you, our community, has offered us along this journey.  A few weeks ago, at our church, the service was about celebrating adoption.  They asked each family who has adopted to come to the front. After they prayed, people started standing...  and clapping.  As they stood, I started crying. I wasn't crying for us...  I was crying because I was really wanting people to know how important community has been in helping us bring our children home.  I wanted to clap for those who were clapping!   I was praying:  "Lord, please let each and every one know that without a supportive, helpful, prayerful community we could of never adopted."  In my heart I was deeply celebrating the community that surrounds adoptive families...  Thank you for walking this journey with us!  Thank you....

Soon we board to go to Bogota, then to Neiva.  We get to see Heidy and Andres tomorrow morning at 11:00am local time.  They will then be with us for the remainder of the time we are in Colombia before we come home! 

These pictures are of Heidy dancing in an annual festival in Nieva, and of Andres...  in a bumper car?!  Peter laughs at this picture of Andres.  He says that is Andres' look for "What am I doing here?!"

It has been an amazing ride trusting God to meet all the various needs of this journey.  It will be fun to see how he meets this next need...  housing in Colombia.  A few of the options we thought would work have fallen through.  We know where we are staying in Neiva for the first week, but after that, in Bogota, we are not sure!  I look forward to the post celebrating God's provision!