Amazing.

 

Dear Sweet Emily & Olivia 

Tonight we completed our first adoption fundraiser. We sold these cool tshirts that mommy designed with the help of an easy website. Don't worry, we got you both one. Basically, we had to sell 50 shirts for it to work. We sold 97. 

I hope you know, the people who bought one (or contributed to the cause) are not people that just needed a new tshirt... These were people that are excited about YOU!  These are people that are praying for you and love you. 

There's all kinds of people on the list. Some people we call family. Some people we call friend. Some people I've known most of my life and others I've only met online through the adoption process! There are even a few I've never met and don't know anything about. It's amazing girls, all these people came together to help make us a family. Amazing. 

There's many more out there too... Not everyone is helping through this avenue. Some are standing in prayer. Some are encouraging us. Some are gifting us in many other ways. 

The bottom line. EVERYONE is excited to meet you. Daddy and I are most excited of course! We search the internet daily for the tiniest bit of information about you. We search through pictures of other families that have been to your orphanage recently hoping to get a glimpse of you. Hoping for one more bit to love. 

We are confident that God is at work, sweet girls. He is doing something amazing. When mommy worked at the church in Florida, I had a verse i loved. It was one that I don't think meant as much to anyone else,and is maybe a little out of context,  but one that has stayed on my heart since. In the journey to you it takes on more meaning each day. It's Habakkuk 1:5 "Look and be amazed! Watch and be astonished! For I am doing something in your day... Something you wouldn't believe even if someone told you!" (paraphrased by my memory)

I am truly, truly amazed. We are seeing God's work in a way we never thought possible! 

We are counting the days! It won't be long! 

We love you sweet babies!

Mommy & Daddy