We're Outta Here

This is it! We leave in 2 hours. The bags are packed and we're ready to roll. We'll update as often as we can throughout the way! Wish us luck!

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Testing the email to blog feature for when we're travelling...

Halloween

We had a very low key Halloween this year. I got home later than I wanted from work. S & R had gone out only to one house earlier, R was too hot (the mask made him hot) and he said it was too much work. So they stayed at home until I got there handing out candy.










Then when I got home, we headed out for about a half hour.











We ended the night with a black cat crossing our path. The perfect ending for Halloween.

He's Ours...

We passed court on 10/13 and received Z's Birth Certificate on 10/22. It was so strange to see Zerihun Kathleen Owsiak... It's not quite fair to his first family to see that we've essentially rewritten his history by taking their names off of it. Anyway, our embassy appointment is 12/3. We will leave here 11/29 & return, hopefully on 12/12 if the paperwork gets processed in a timely fashion. Keep your fingers crossed and say a prayer. Both S & R are coming with. The school wasn't particularly impressed with S taking 2 weeks to go, but she's spoken with each of her teachers and they've all promised to work with her both before & after the trip to make sure she doesn't fall behind. She's also organized some fundraising efforts to get some donations to bring with us. It seems so strange that we leave in 4 weeks. I can't wait to have him home with us.