Beautiful girl!

Here is a new picture of our beautiful daughter. It brings tears to my eyes to see how lovely she is...inside and out! I can't wait to meet her in person.

Thanks for your continued prayers!

A letter from Sehin!

My beloved family,

First of all I want to give a great Thanks for my almighty lord, about giving to me this great opportunity , be a part of your family. Also I want to say thank you for heard my prayer and knowing my feeling from my bottom of heart, He knows my interest and He did a great thing in my life, I think my life has changed now.

I really understood that you heard so many things about me and my family, especially about my mother’s health situation she is so fine and she better now and she is doing fine. And also my sister is so fine. About me, as you know that we are living only by the protection of God, no one is trying to help us after my father death. But my almighty lord take care for us, I know that I can’t get enough food, good education if I continue to live in Ethiopia anymore and thank you for your understanding that my difficult living situation.

I am so excited to go there (America) and live with my two lovely brothers and 2 beautiful sisters very soon. I know that you are working hard to take me there, I also praying alot for every process every day….You already told me that what I want to know about your family. And I want to say again that I want to be there with all your family members, Dad & mama and I want to play games with my brothers and sisters very soon…I want to ask a single question about your home study and dossier I think it takes a lot of time I am eager to hear the good news about it and I want to be finished fast to be with you please .

Always I pray for you

I love you so much

Your daughter

God bless you

HOME STUDY IS COMPLETE!!!!!

I am on my knees thanking God! We've been waiting on fingerprint clearance from the FBI since October. Ryan received his clearance in December and I finally received mine today. This means that we are done with our home study and sending in our dossier! Thank you for everyone that has been praying with us through this process.

The next step is that the dossier has to be authenticated (make sure everything is legal) and then translated. We'll also have to complete a second set of fingerprints for the US Immigration.

One more open door....one step closer to bringing our daughter home. Praise God!