Frustrating Court Date!!!

So frustrating!! Our lawyer told us that we only needed to bring the father to the court date as the mothers wants have no significance in this country!!! Then when we go to the court date the judge says that he's not granting our adoption order until we come back with the mother on Aug 31!! It was really frustrating...especially when we found out from a friend who had adopted before us that our lawyer new that we needed both parents!!! I've always thought that it was very sad that they were going to court to fully give up their children and the mother doesn't even get to come!! I had almost decided to bring her anyways, but then decided that our lawyer might not like that....Boy, should have listened to my first instinct! Anyways, our new court date is Aug 31...which hopefully goes much better than the first one!! Please pray that the Judge grants the order this time!!! and for comfort for the birth parents!!!

Cute babies...and a bad blogger!

I have discovered that I'm not the best blogger....lol...I read some people's blogs that post everyday, or almost everyday!! I can never thing of what to say once a week...let alone once a day....So my excuse is going to be that the internet here is to slow and unreliable for me to post more than once a week...lol...Thats my excuse and I'm sticking to it!!! So...what's new around here...well, we are waiting for our court dates! Edens is on the 24th and Cassidy's is Sept 2! My mom comes in exactly 5 weeks! We seem to be doing a fair bit of waiting!! Teams have just left and its fairly quiet around here!! The kids are out of school on break, and are really enjoying playing with my girls...which I quite enjoy as it gives me a break from trying to figure out how to entertain them!! The weather her the last 3 days has been very cold for some reason! We've had to bring back out our jeans and sweaters...All in all not overly exciting!! but here are some pics of my cutie girls..now that's exciting!! I still don't have any pics of the teeth cause they are still not quite through enough to get a good pic...Although Eden now has both bottom teeth!!!



Someone please come play with me!!


My beautiful girls!! Getting so big.. can't wait for everyone to meet them!!

We have the passports!!

We are praising God!!! He is so amazing...we received the girls passports in 2 weeks and 2 days and they are both correct!!....so amazing!! Our friend and the director of the orphanage where we are working adopted her 2 sons from Zambia as well. It took her 4 months to get their passports and when she finally got them they had spelled the boys' names wrong! All we have left on the Zambian side is their final court dates which are in 2 weeks and 6 days for Eden, and 4 weeks one day for Cassidy!! I'm not really concerned that we won't pass court or that the parents will change their minds until I think about all the what ifs, and what it would feel like to give up our girls now!! I have a peace that everything will go just fine, but the devil likes to sow seeds of doubt and worry in our minds! If he can sway us from trusting than he has done his job well!!

The work here is going well!! Sidney is loving it here and I think will be sad to go home! He has quite easily adapted to the Zambian lifestyle, and quite enjoys coming home anytime of day to play with his girls for a few minutes! They are working on painting the high school right now, and they're also finishing the roof on the annex building. Its starting to get quite warm here and pretty soon it will be very hot to work outside!!

The countdown is on...my mom comes in 6 weeks and 1 day!! I so can't wait to see her I've missed her so much, and I can't wait for the girls to meet their Oma!! One of the things that's been a challenge about being away, and adopting the girls is that no one else gets to meet them or enjoy their cute little quirks!! We waited 4 long years for our girls, but so did our families!!! I know they are really excited to meet them, and I can't wait to show off my beautiful girls! Pics help but its not the same..you can't quite get to know their cute little personality's and funny things they do!!

When I was younger I knew a set of twins who would talk to each other in twin talk....In other words complete gibberish to everybody else..but they knew exactly what the other was saying and would totally crack each other up!! I'm waiting for the days that my girls might do this...At the moment they view each other as more of a challenge to deal with...She's going to steal my toy or cookie or sippy cup!! We are already having to teach them not to pull hair!! Their first tooth is almost to the point where I could take a pic...and I think their second tooth is not far behind!! They are so cute!!