Life and Adoption Update

Wow it's been a really long time since I visited the old blog.  Looking at some of the pictures I can't believe how much time has passed and how much has changed.  I guess first I will start with life so I can explain more in the adoption update.
Since the last post we....

- Sold our first house
- Moved to an apartment for 6 months
- Had a Jonah's Journey baby for 4 months

- Found out we were pregnant in March
- Dustin started and finished our new house in 6 months

- Moved in on June 30 last year
- Hadden turned 3 in September

- Had our baby girl Westyn on November 11

- Celebrated our first Christmas in our new house

So that's our year in a nut shell.  We did so many fun things in between that I hope can each have a post of their own, if I can find the time.  Life with two sweet ones is much more busy but we are loving every min of it.

The question that we are getting more often now that Westyn is here and we are coming up on 2 years waiting is "are you still adopting?" The answer is yes we are still waiting for a 0-24 months old little boy from Ethiopia.  When we first started that adoption process back in Dec of 2010 the wait time for a little boy was 4-6 months. Shortly after we mailed out Dossier to Ethiopia lots of uncertain changes started happening all of which I do believe are for the good of the children in Ethiopia.  Due to the changes that were made the wait time for Ethiopia is much longer.  We have seen it slowly lengthen from 4-6 months to now 24-30 months.  We have now been waiting 24 months.  During our wait there were many times we felt unsure what the Lord wanted us to do.  We initially talked about changing to another country but God continued to shut those doors.  Then we started praying about trying to have another biological child and thats when I found out I was pregnant with our second child.  During the time I was pregnant there was some movement in Ethiopia but not much.  I am excited to say that there has been lots of movement in the past 4 months and things are going a lot more smoothly in Ethiopia.  So how does it work now that we have Westyn?  Our agency's policy is we can still remain active on the list, so while I was pregnant and now that Westyn is here we have still been moving up the list.  What we can not do is except a referral until Westyn has been in our home for 6 months. So where does that lead us?  Westyn is now 5 months old and we are #19 on the list.  On April 29 we will have been on the wait list for 24 months.  We will be able to accept a referral in May.  Would you please pray with us that this will be the year our son will get to join our family.  We are all so excited to see how God puts the final pieces of this puzzle together.