Court date!!!

Kristin called this morning with our dates! September 30th is the first date and if all goes well we will be in court October 12th! We're so excited!! More soon...

Updates

We received an update from Gladney today announcing the dates for court closure for the rainy season. Courts will close August 6th for a couple of months. The email said that it's very likely no more families will receive court dates before closure. We anticipated this so even though we'd like to love on our little guy in person- and as soon as possible- we feel prepared to continue to wait a little while longer. He's getting some great lovin' from sweet families who are traveling to bring home their little ones as well as our friends who are in Ethiopia for the summer. (We can't wait to be able to do this for other families someday!) This means that the earliest we'll be traveling to Ethiopia will be sometime in October or November. We're really hoping to have him home with us by his 2nd birthday which is Christmas Day.

Also, we've decided to name our little guy Miles. We will keep his Ethiopian name as his middle name because it is a part of him and in case he'd like to go by that at some point. I found this picture yesterday. It's from my surprise birthday trip to the beach. We were still two months away from receiving our referral but we had Miles on our mind. We still didn't know if we would be blessed with a boy or girl but we both felt like little boy Miles was in our near future!

Sweet celebrations

This is certainly the summer of celebrations! In the past few weeks we've attended 2 weddings and a shower - our baby shower actually. We've gotten to see old friends, meet new ones, and see family who we don't see often enough. This is our intermission as we have several showers for friends and 3 more weddings in the the next 3 months! It's that season in our life I suppose!

Emily's wedding was first- and I am sad to report that I have no pictures to share! The photographer has a couple thousand, that are wonderful, but too hard to "borrow" and show off to you. Emily is one of my first friends. We met in preschool and spent the next 20 + years having sleepovers, taking dance, driving to voice lessons together, attending proms, etc. Lots of fun memories with that girl. She and Dustin are a great match and we're so happy for them.

Sarah got married last weekend- she is one of my BEST friends from college. She is an amazing photographer- many pictures on this blog were taken by Sarah. When Sarah met Ryan and began to tell us all about him we were so sure he was the one God made for her! Ashley sang at her wedding and rocked it out- made me cry it was so beautiful! Here are a few snapshots of that day...







Last weekend we had our first shower for our sweet boy. Surreal would be the word. Ross's aunts' hosted the beautiful lunch for us and those ladies know how to throw a party. It was gorgeous and delicious! Our little guy was blessed with so many fun things to help us prepare for him! He's the only missing piece! I definitely failed on the getting cute posed pictures of everyone there, but here are a few of the food and fun...