new pics of my soccer stars

now more waiting...really?????

Now we are waiting for the US embassy...once again! they are supposed to email me and let me know about filing more paperwork and an exit interview. I hope it is soon...not that they know what that means. It is sad when your own embassy is of no help!!!!!

I600 approved....at last

got an email saying our I600 was finally approved for all three boys!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Yea....now just waiting on an exit interview! Pray Pray Pray!!!!

US Embassy..please!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

still no approval of final i600 form. i am going to start the new school year off 3 weeks late to help get the boys situated. i did not want to put them in after care the first week of school. I talked to the principal at McConnell today and that is where i have decided to send the boys. That is where my other children went and it just feels right! Hope they love it! WE all have our work cut out for us. Ian gets to be a teachers assistant next semester. I think he will really like that and the teacher is great!

boys....we miss them!!!!

medicals...done!!

one more thing done...medicals for their visa!!! now waiting in i600 approval and i am off!!! had lunch with two other adopting families today...super nice people. i am very glad they live close....i see future play dates :) please continue to pray for the safety and health of our boys and for a safe trip to get them.

embassy monday?

The boys have their medicals at the embassy on monday! hope all goes well and they approve the visas soon.

passports are in!!!

Christen and Philip

Brady and Boys

Group dancing and singing

all of the boys passports are now in!!!! Medicals at Embassy on Monday.....moving finally!!!

NO NEWS

still no news from the Embassy! I miss the boys and pray that they are healthy and happy. I wish they were home. Soon I hope......

uuuuuugggggghhhhh

I miss the boys so much. It is awful worrying about your kids that are so far away and you can not pick up the phone to check on. Please pray for their safety and good health and quick return HOME!!!!!!

HOME

well we are home, but without the boys. that was one of the hardest things i have ever done. we said goodbye at the airport.....the kept saying "mommy come back....mommy come back" then i sent my children back to the orphan home....back to no running water, no electricity, malaria biting mosquitoes, one meal (if you call it that) a day....etc. i felt terrible...politics suck!!!!! i was very glad to see jennifer and ian. i missed them so much. i am ready to have all of my family at home. pray..pray..pray

lets try embassy again

dance contest in our room with all kids,,,michael jackson kick off....we had godfred, joseph, philip, manny, gabby, thelma, and deborah

embassy again today...cross your fingers. i cried all night and held on to philip. he would not let go of mummy!!! will be hard to leave. it is raning today here in ghana. we leaveat 8 am tomorrow...pray for our safe return to USA. excited to see jennifer and ian...sad to leave godfred joseph, philip

birthday party at guest home

goats

goats outside our guest room. i tried to catch them and the boys laughed!!!

we want to come to USA

we need home

day at the ophanage home

we spent the day at the home. s many kids begging to get a mommy and daddy and come to USA. breaks your heart!!!! here is a pic of the young ghana soccer fan at the home.

shopping????

ghana mall

shoprite...lol

GODFRED IS EATING FISH HE CAUGHT ...HEAD...EYES..AND ALL

RICE COOKING OUTBACK...JOLOFF

orphanage got their first table and chairs....soooo exciting!!!!

pics from ghana

these are from the hotel...there are two other families with us adopting....the kids are so cute and were all friends at the orphanage. the litte girl is 3...thelma...she is a doll!!!! calls me auntie! the kids always sing in Ga and we are clueless as to what they are saying :) cute though

after court our new additons

this is when we got back from court in ghana...they were a lot nicer than the american embassy...who figures!!!! by the way....the boys fixed my hair...lol

COURT TODAY

we have had no power and no internet for 3 days.....wow...reality check!!!!! my hair is lovely...lol. we had court today and i was very scared. it waas very different from our courts....you should see the lawyers...big men...ghanians with curly blonde george washington wigs...i had to pinch myself!!!! then you say MY LORD with each answer...again i got tickled, but we passed!!!!! full decree...a lot of families did not!!!!! we have learned a lot here and are very appreciaitive of what we have...our boys 9.5, 8, 4.5 have been put in a hole for 5 days, beaten, starved, lived on the street for 6 months by themselves, were almost stabbed by their father bc he could not feed them and did not want to try, etc.....so sad for children to endure. they are sooo sweet and SHARE everything. the older two really take care of phillip the baby...he is going to be our wild child.....non of the boys ever attended school and are so ashamed...godfred..the oldest...said we could give them back..in tears! it will be work..probably more than i thought...but i have seen what their alternative would be and it is not good!!!! they only want rice for every meal bc it is soo filling and they are used to limited food. our hotel is small and the older two are sleeping on the concrete..yes...no carpet...floor and have not complained at all. they love the shower and take about 8 a day...and begged for ...palmade?????? i was clueless...it is coco butter lotion....no ipod...just lotion...wild. well others are waiting to use internet so that is all for now. please pray for our safe return and for my wonderful children that are patiently waiting at home......oh yea...get ready Ian.....littlebit is wild!!!!!! oh yea....i guess i need to learn how to eat chicken bones bc they love them...the entire bone!!!!

I AM HERE!!!!

I GOT TO MEET AND SPEND THE ENTIRE DAY WITH THE BOYS. THIS IS THEIR LAST NIGHT EVER IN THE ORPHANAGE. FROM NOW ON, OUR BOYS WILL BE WITH US. THEY WELCOMED US WITH SINGING AND DANCING, THEN THE BOYS RAN OVER AND SAID "WE HAVE BEEN WAITING FOR YOU MOMMY AND DADDY" SOOOO CUTE....I LOST IT!!!!!!!!! WE PLAYED SOCCER AND HIDE N SEEK. GO BACK TOMORROW TO GET THEIR THINGS OUT OF TE ORPHANAGE. SUPER KIND PLACE.

next time.....

next time i talk to you...i will be in ghana, africa.............WOW

GOING TO GHANA

READY TO SEE MY BOYS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! FLIGHT LEAVES AT 12:30 PM AND I GO FROM ATL TO NYC TO ACCRA....17 HOURS....YIKES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I WILL KEEP YOU ALL POSTED. SAY YOUR PRAYERS FOR US!!