One Sought Me

We're home for Christmas!  We're together with our new son and we are very grateful for this Christmas time to be a family.  The first Christmas for Tarik and looking back from last Christmas, we have come a very long way! Read about 2014 Christmas here.  Here are a few photos of just us being us. Although I wish we had matching outfits, cute red scarves and mittens, the real us was balancing tears from a loose tooth, changing poo diapers, keeping sharp clippers from becoming weapons in sword fights, snot sneezing from allergies, and well....memories!  This blue spruce tree was planted by my father-in-law in 1974 and trimmed ever since to one day be used as a Christmas tree.  What better year to build family memories than when our family is all together at last!  We've always had artificial trees so this was a change for us.  The tree cutting adventure was well, an adventure!   From ours to yours, a very...

Wishing you all a very Merry Christmas in celebrating the birth of HOPE to all people through the baby Jesus the Christ! Thanking you all for the continued prayers for our family as we journey through this adoption! We are grateful and praising GOD for our Christmas blessing of receiving the much awaited paperwork from Ethiopia! Read about it here.   We are thrilled that now our paperwork has arrived at it's next destination with the United States Immigration offices who will review the case and continue to move us forward to bringing our little boy home!! Prayers for continued progress as we go through these next phases.  This next-step time frame has been estimated at 3-6 months until we are ready to travel to Ethiopia for the court date and to meet Tarik.  God's timing! May 2015 be a blessing to all!   Merry Christmas!  Todd, Erin, and kiddos!