Introducing Adam Ezekial (Zek)

We are home and so happy to be!!!!! Zek is doing well. We are exhausted so I will post more pictures later.

Leaving tomorrow morning for Ethiopia

We are getting everything ready to go (i think i may have overpacked!) and spending the evening with our girlies. Our plane leaves at 6 am tomorrow morning. We will be headed out from our house at 4 am. We are super excited!!!

We will be flying into Washington/Dulles airport and leaving there for Ethiopia. We will arrive in Ethiopia at 8:30 am Saturday morning!!!!!

I am still a little nervous about leaving the girls. I know that they will be ok, but it's still hard.

Pray for our safety and for peace for us and also safety and peace for our girls while we are gone.

We will meet Zek in 3 days!!!!

We will post as soon as we can when we get back!!!! Can't wait to share pictures!!!!

December 18th

If any of our family and friends would like to welcome Zek home at the airport please email me and I will give you our return flight information. My email address is cld123789@gmail.com. We return home on Dec 18th.

We are busy packing and preparing. I hope to get lots of stuff done over this weekend.

Continue to pray for peace for us and peace for the girls. Maggie said today that she didn't want us to go. She is really excited for her little brother, but scared to be apart from mommy and daddy for so long. I know she is going to have fun when we are gone. Just pray for peace for our two girlies.

8 more days to go!!!

We have been so busy around here preparing our trip to bring home Zek along with everything else that has brought business into our life's. Adam started a new job recently, so lots of changes going on around here! I feel like I have been neglecting the blog!

Here are some things that we have been doing lately...

This is our 3rd annual "Decorate a Gingerbread House" Thanksgiving morning. The girls had lots of fun decorating and eating. :)

Here are the girls playing in the leaves. After 6 1/2 years the trees finally make enough leaves to play in!

A few weeks back my mom and Adams mom threw a shower for me. It was a wonderful time! We are so blessed to have such great family and friends! Zek got lots of new stuff. I think he has a different outfit to wear everyday for a long time!
Adam was at the shower too, but he was behind the camera the whole time :)

Friends...Erin and Berkley, Kristen, (me), Maggie, Laura...and the top of Hazels head

My little brother Brandon, Dad, and little sister Brianna

Adams grandma, my grandma, Joe, my mom, my sister -Miranda and Ashton

The church gang. Patricia, April, Stacey and Olivia, Tabitha, Ashley, Lynda, and Katie

Adams mom doing a great job with the shower games. Everyone seemed to really enjoy it. I think the games were great!

Zeks new bouncer. Our referral pictures of Zek are of him laying in this same chair. So, it means alot. And we can put him in it when we get home and compare his pictures to him in it. We can see how much he has grown.

This shirt says it all. We do and cant wait to love on him in 13 days!

We, of course, need lots and lots of these!

That is a little of whats been going on around here. We have been packing and going over lists, and packing and going over lists. I am waiting to pack our stuff. There is alot of stuff to pack for a 3 month old! We received a package from our travel agent today with our tickets and stuff! It is beginning to be a little bit more real, but still not totally "real". We will be in Ethiopia so soon picking up our baby boy!!!!! Wow!!!!!

Please everyone pray for us as we are feeling anxiety about leaving the girls. I know it's only 7 days, but we have only left them overnight once! It will be good for us and good for the girls. They get to spend lots of quality time with there grandma and granny. We have presents for them to open everyday and a little note to let them know what mommy and daddy will be doing that day. Their first day they will be opening Build a Bear gift cards. I know that they will enjoy that!

I am also feeling a little anxiety about flying. I have no idea why. I have flown before, but not often. I have never been on a plane for 15 hours straight. I think that is what I am a little scared about.

I know that God will ease my anxieties and we will have peace throughout this trip.

We leave in 11 days!!!!!!!!!!! Soon we will get to kiss on those adorable cheeks, hear his coos and cries, and hug him and never let go.

We got the GREEN light

We got a call earlier from AGCI and they said that we have the green light. Our travel dates are confirmed!!! Adam was actually on the phone with the travel agent at the same time that AGCI called, so we booked our tickets right then. Worked out perfectly!!!

We leave on December 11th and will arrive in Ethiopia on December 12th at 8:30 AM. We will meet Zek the very next day!!!!!

3 weeks from today we will be on our way to our son!!!!!!

It still doesn't seem real!!!!

We will be there very soon baby boy!!!!!

I started packing. Right now it looks like a big mess because I am not really sure how to pack everything. We have 3 weeks to figure it out. :)

Tentative travel dates!!!!!!!!

We just got tentative travel dates from our agency!!!!!!!!!

We will need to be in Ethiopia on December 12th (zeks 3 month birthday). Gotcha day is the very next day December 13th!!!!!!! We will leave Ethiopia on December 17th putting us back home on either the 17th or 18th!!!!!!! From the start of our adoption for bringing Zek home is less than 8 months!!!!! Thank you God!!! You are amazing!!!!!!

I have called our travel agency already and they are looking into flights for us.

I really hoped that this is when we would be traveling and we are!!!!! Well, not confirmed yet. It will be confirmed next week and then we can book our tickets!!!!!!

We are coming little Zek!!!!!!

We also got an update on Zek. He is already 8 lbs and 8 oz and about 21.5 inches long!!!!! Our update says...

How to Approach the Child based in his Personality: You can pick him up and hold him. (so he wont be scared of us!!! :) )

Personality Adam is a content baby most of the time. He is sweet and adorable, loves to be held. (I love to hold my babies ALOT)

LIKES Classical Music – baby lullabies before bed while being rocked.

I am feeling anxiety about leaving our girls. Please pray for peace for us and for them!!!!

I cannot believe that in 23 days we will be leaving for Ethiopia!!!!!!! This is amazing!!!!! We have to start packing!!!!!

I had a baby shower thrown for me this past weekend and I will post pics soon!!!!

Guess What?!?!?....

WE PASSED!!!!!!!!

Zek is now legally our son!!!!!!!!! We are now a family of 5!!!!!!

We are so excited and so relieved!!!!! God is so good!!!! Thank you Thank you Thank you!!!!!

next step: tentative embassy appointment and tentative travel dates (i really really hope its really really soon)

Also, today is Zeks 2 month birthday. So, Happy 2 month birthday baby boy!!!!!!

Above is a picture of his big beautiful eyes!!!!!! We cant post any full pictures of him until he is in our arms, which hopefully wont be too much longer!!!!