We have been home with Maria for 6 weeks now! It feels like she has been in our lives for so much longer. She has nestled right into a routine. Maria is a social girl for sure, so we try to go fun places or visit family and friends every Read more…
What a week it has been! We are excited to share our ups and downs. To catch you up on the last week, it feels like we have done so much and so little at the same time. Early Tuesday morning we left Bucaramanga and flew to Bogota. Maria was Read more…
We are having a great time bonding with our sweet Maria this week. Here is a snapshot of a day in the life! Her day starts with a huge smile and big hugs for Mama and Papa. Then we take showers. We have managed a pretty good handoff to get Read more…
After an extended flight (with brief pit stop in Panama City, Panama for fuel while waiting for fog to lift at our destination airport), we made it to Bogotá yesterday morning! Though there’s only a two hour time change (we’re in eastern time) from home, we were worried about messing Read more…
Our cascade of paperwork and approvals have gone through, and we have plane tickets to Colombia to go get our girl! We have been receiving tons of love and support to make sure we are ready to bring home Maria, and we are so grateful for everyone’s prayers and love Read more…
Advent: a season observed as a time of expectant waiting and preparation for both the celebration of the birth of Jesus at Christmas and the return of Jesus at the second coming. This Advent season has been a very practical reminder of the hope and anticipation we feel as we Read more…
We received an email towards the end of October telling us we received approval from Colombia for our adoption! Our dossier had been approved. This is what we were waiting for. Wow, what an amazing blessing! From here, they estimated we would wait about 2-3 weeks for our files to Read more…
We received such an exciting email recently from our social worker. Our dossier has been approved! Colombia says we can adopt! I received the news while at work and was able to quickly send a text to Andre confirming he also saw our news as well. Then I found all Read more…
We officially submitted our completed dossier August 24! From there it went through our agency in Alabama, was translated to Spanish, then mailed to Colombia. We were told in mid-September that our dossier had been received by ICBF (the Colombian Family Welfare Institute) and to continue praying because it had Read more…
“For this reason I bow my knees before the Father, from whom every family in heaven and on earth is named, that according to the riches of his glory he may grant you to be strengthened with power through his Spirit in your inner being, so that Christ may dwell Read more…