Okay – I don’t actually have the time to write a detailed post right now, but I wanted to share that our homestudy is complete and in my hands! I just need one last document and I can submit our application with immigration (USCIS). It’s exciting! I am hopeful that we will be on trip one to meet our son this summer. And I’m praying he will be home before the end of 2017. We will see.
I have a bunch of great family photos and I’ll be putting them up soon. Hmm… let me see if I can just upload them really quick before somebody needs me for something….
Here is Hurya doing a friend’s hair, Ethiopian style!
My family, my life.
Outside.
Sooooooo pretty!
Darling girl.
I love the rosy cheeks on my cheeky four-year-old!
The first snow…. it was quite cold and too powdery to build a snowman…. or even to sled properly, but we tried!
So pretty!
The chickens didn’t leave their roosting area much.
Even our steep little hill needed a pull to get moving.
Anna and her friend acting like preteens.
One night, Brian applied the necessary energy to make the powdered snow into a snowman. It was just a little warmer this night and it worked! Until the dogs ate the nose and chewed off his arms, poor fella.
A friend invited us to sled on their hill! So we put on chains and headed over twice!
Fun!
Fast!
More friends.
She went SOOOooo fast and I laughed so hard at her breathless, afraid, but having fun face the first few runs.
Wheee!
It was good we had chains. It is a steep, windy, packed snow AND ice road to get there.
The sledding hill.
Off course!
Knocking snow off the branches
Yippeeee!
Flying!
Sledding videos!
First day sledding:
Blast off!
Maggie….. then Carrie!
Elli and Anna over the jumps:
Easily my favorite video…. Maggie…. jumps… she said the second jump hurt. I was not at all surprised!
Brody and Carrie:
Woo-hoo! Looks like tons of fun!