ARCHIVE June, 2010

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Awesome! (updated)

June 28, 2010

(Update)Yeah, I accidentally put July 30th as the day when the matching funds expired… Its really supposed to be June 30th.  Sorry about that. So remember that carnival we talked about a few days ago? Well it happened this past Saturday and from what we hear it went very well! Sounds like the place was [...]

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Processing….

June 26, 2010

It seems that everything in Africa takes a bit longer than you think it will, at first this used to bother us more but now that we have lived here for a year we are starting to get used to the pace and not fretting so much when something just seems like it will never [...]

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Chicken-Fox and Other Various Ailments

June 24, 2010

Its always something new at the orphanage, last month it was pink eye and not just any kind of pink eye, this was the kind that every single kid got, and it made their eyes nasty with puss and all sorts of grossness. Well this time its Chicken Pox, only the local staff like to [...]

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Check out this carnival

June 19, 2010

So for all those out there who are reading from California I have one thing to say to you….  Lucky!  We have been hearing rumors about this event for a while and its finally really happening and trust me, its not to be missed!  On June 26th in Oakdale, California there is a family (our new [...]

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An update post

June 18, 2010

I like bullet points so I am going to do the update that way. – Levi is getting much better. Thank you so much for all the prayers. He is having to be careful with what he eats and that he is drinking enough water but he is feeling better every day. – The kids [...]

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Sideswiped

June 15, 2010

Sometimes things just don’t look like you think they are going to look, and oh boy has this past week been a winner in the category of “things you never planned on”.   I spent 4 of the past 7 days in the hospital fighting off a nasty bout with Hepatitis A.  One of those [...]

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A String of Grace

June 8, 2010

As we have spent time with Lale over the past year the stories of his incredible blessed life have slowly come out. He is not prideful nor does he ever take credit for the things that God has done through him, so sometimes you have to pull the stories out of him. As we look [...]

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Still pushing

June 4, 2010

It does not seem possible, but the families who are over here to adopt are still waiting on a final decision from the Embassy. What started out as a one hour appointment has turned into more than a week of waiting and waiting. Please pray for these families as this is not an easy time [...]

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It hardly seems real..

June 3, 2010

I know its been a while since we have updated on here, but we have a really good reason, I promise. We are finally after 12 long months of living in Ethiopia and several failed attempts at actually doing it, we are taking our first family vacation.  It seemed almost impossible to ever pull away [...]