We are going to ETHIOPIA!!!

I am writing with some FANTASTIC news!!  Last Friday, we got the call with our court date.  Our court date (in Ethiopia) is December 5^th!  We fly out this weekend and will be holding our girl in our arms next week!!  Needless to say, we are MORE THAN excited.  We have been busy these past few days packing and getting ready for Thanksgiving.  The days are going by pretty quickly!  

We have so much to be thankful for this Thanksgiving – and this just is such an unexpected bonus!  We really want to thank each of you, for your prayers and your financial help and your love and encouragement.  The past few months have been challenging, but your support has helped so much.  We return from Ethiopia the second week of December, so be watching your inbox for updates soon after we return!! Also, we can not post, publically, any pictures of Samara Naol until we get her home, but if you keep an eye on this blog while we are gone, we will post pictures of our travels!

PRAYER REQUESTS

-         -  For our travels – that we would be safe and healthy the whole time.

-        -   For the next part of the process (the Embassy phase) to go quickly so we can bring our baby girl home! They say it can be anywhere from 1-4 months after your first trip that you can expect to return to Ethiopia to get your child and bring her home. Lately, it’s been averaging families 3 months.

Thank you all so much! We are very blessed by each of you!

The Thomas Family

Bad News

Need prayers -- While the first court date went fine for our adoption -- there was a letter that was supposed to be submitted by that date (three weeks ago) and has not yet been submitted. PLEASE pray for that letter to get there TOMORROW as we NEED it in order to receive our court date and travel to meet our girl.

185 Days

It's been 185 days that we've been staring at a picture of our little girl that we have yet to meet. We've been ready to go and meet her for quite a while. Please join us in praying that we get the call and head out next week. The wait is getting harder by the hour.

Waiting STINKS!

So, another family working with our agency (that got their referral a month after us, but that's a whole nother story) got their call today at 1:00 p.m. They have a court date that they have to be in Ethiopia on Thursday for a Friday court date. That means they had to fly out at 7:00 p.m. tonight. Yep, they got SIX HOURS notice. As excited as I am to meet our girl - 6 hours notice might throw me over the edge!! Yikes!!

I am ready for our call. Please join us in praying that it will come THIS WEEK. We are ready.