Almost time

It is hard to believe in one week we will be packing for our trip to meet our baby boy! We are beyond excited, I cannot wait. All of our paperwork is in order and ready to go, we just need to make copies of everything which we will do tomorrow. We have a very long trip, we are leaving from Bristol, TN on Sat. Dec. 10th at 2:30 but we don't arrive in Addis Ababa Ethiopia until Monday at 7:30am which is 11:30pm Sunday here in. We have an 11 hour layover in London which will hopefully give us some time to sightsee! We will leave Ethiopia at 1am Friday and get home at 11:30pm Friday. *8hour time difference* The weather is going to be great! In the 70's all week!

Once we arrive in Ethiopia our hotel The Yeka Guest House will pick us up and take us back to the hotel then Hope Adoption Agency Ethiopia will send a driver to pick us up from there, then we go to the agency and there we will get to meet Tamirat (Liam), we will also be able to finish the forms that we will need for the embassy appointment (the 2nd trip). We should get to visit the orphanage and find out more information about Liam during this visit. We are planning on taking half of the donations for the orphanage with us on this trip and the rest on the next visit since the agency thinks this will be easier then trying to ship everything.

We wont get to bring him home on this trip, this is just the court date which is on the 14th. We have to make a second trip in 6-8weeks to pick him up, and bring him home. The 19 hours of flying time should be great with our new toddler :)

The hotel has internet access so we will try to post pictures and keep everyone updated while we are gone. Please continue to keep us in your prayers! God has blessed us so much through this process, we are so ready to bring home our son!