June 2006 - Posts
This will be a quick one as we are wrapping up a long day... things are all progressing as planned, and after a slight scare this afternoon, we now have all of Erika's paperwork and IR3 Visa in hand to take through customs tomorrow. We leave the hotel
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Julie did a great job today of capturing some pics with Erika giving us a good smile... I did a little editing to focus on the important person :) If you 'd like a look, I've posted a gallery here.
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We had our appointment with the US Embassy this morning at 7:45 and everything went exactly like clockwork. We were picked up at the hotel at 7:30 by Elissa (one of the Bethany staff members), taken to the embassy, paperwork filed, visited two windows
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So, I was going to wait until later tonight to post, but I've been severly scolded by certain individuals for allowing 6 hours to pass in between posts :) Everything has gone very smoothly so far... we received Erika around 11:15 this morning - not an
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Proverbs 13:12 says "Hope deferred makes the heart sick, but a desire fulfilled is a tree of life" (ESV). Today, our hearts are full... similar (I imagine) to the joy that anyone who has watched their child be born... there is a certain feeling
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Just wanted to let you know that I just got the call from the Bethany staff – Erika should be here between 10-10:30 – we’ll keep you posted. Please continue to pray as for the foster mom & her family, as well as for Erika’s
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We are very exicited this morning, anxiously awaiting a call to let us know when we will be meeting Erika. We think we have everything ready (well, as ready as one can be) and are now just sort of killing time... Yesterday was a nice day for rest and
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We finally made it to Guatemala for our pick-up trip. We are so excited I think both Julie and I are running adrenaline as we have been up since 4 this morning in order to catch our flight (thanks for the ride, Brian!). As you can tell from the fact that
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We received notice this morning that our Pink slip was issued yesterday, as planned. We are very excited that Erika is finally coming home! Rob and I will be leaving Sunday to pickup Erika. We will receive Erika on Tuesday, go to the Embassy on Wednesday,
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A few weeks ago, the ladies from our church threw Julie and Erika a shower. We were amazed at how many people came, and the kindness and generosity shown to us. It has been wonderful to have such a caring group of people to stand beside us during this
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Finally... we just got a call from the Michigan office (Bethany's headquarters) letting us know that our paperwork was sumbitted to the embassy! (no, we don't have a good reason as to why it took so long... but we don't really care right now).
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Every once in a while God gives you an opportunity to remember that it’s not “all about you.” As some of you might have noticed, this past week has been difficult on us as we were confident that we would be in Guatemala by now spending
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I wanted to post a quick update for those who are wondering what the status of things are with our receiving “pink”. Yesterday (Thursday 6/15) we learned that our paperwork has yet to be submitted to the embassy. I know we all thought it had
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Today was a really exciting day... we learned that the birth certificate has been received and that we are now Erika's legal parents. This also means that we are very close to bringing Erika home. According to our case worker, there is a (very) *slight*
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