Still no news. Feeling discouraged. Waiting. Waiting. Waiting. This is torture. Hhhhmmmmm.....
Well, our VBS week went really well..had a blast with our 21 tourists in Big Apple Adventure! Kept us busy and now we are pooped! Time for some R & R. I hope.
Please pray for Greg's family. He has had 2 uncles pass away in the past month.
Mom and Dad returned from Ohio to wish our Nephew Brandon well for his high school graduation. He will be serving in our US Navy in a few short weeks!
Blessings to All!

Hello All,

Just writing to let you know that we are still waiting to hear from the courts in Congo about approval. Hopefully we will be hearing something pretty soon...
Everyone here is doing fine. We have completed homeschool (as of April 29th) and we completed IOWA testing on Tuesday, May 24th.
We are FREE for the summer!!!! YAY!!!!!
Now to get ready for VBS!!! Tina will be teaching 1st grade and Greg is leading a VBS prayer team this year! We are pumped up and ready!!! (Almost) :)
The next event on the calendar is the Youth Student Life Camp to Orange Beach, Al. on June 24th-27th. Hannah will be going and so will Greg!!! Tina is on standby incase she is needed... :)
Well, not much more going on, but if you'd like to get together this summer, let us know!!!
We love you all!

We got another new photo of our sweet Isaiah Micah! He is just growing and growing so fast! He is so precious! Please pray for patience and peace as we wait to hold him in our arms! Thank you all so much!

BTW, thank you to the couple who gave us such a sweet gift to help us in this journey! We are so blessed to have you in our lives! You are precious to us!
We love you all!

Well, it seems that they gave us the wrong name for Isaiah, so we are having to re-do a few of the documents with the right spelling. We were told that it should not slow us down, but you never know about these things. Please pray for a miracle. We have faith that God will provide.

I did go to Ohio over the weekend, Thursday through Sunday, to see my sis and her family. Had a great time! I enjoyed getting away and relaxing a little. That was nice and much needed.

I will update soon!
Tina

Well, we finally got a new picture of our little Isaiah!!!! He is quite adorable if I do say so myself! Makes me want to have him in my arms all the more!

He actually is sporting a  beautiful flowered shirt. This is just more evidence that he needs to come home to mommy so I can dress him with some boy clothes! Haha! Of course you know, they must use whatever they have to dress him at the orphanage, and at 8 months old, he could care less what clothes he wears, only that he has them!
Thank you for your prayers...it is increasingly difficult each day that passes to wait and wait and wait...and now it is looking like it could take even longer because they are very shorthanded and are becoming overloaded with cases in Congo. Many people have responded to the great need there, which is great! However, it slows things way down for those who are already in the process...
Please keep us in your prayers....
We love and are so grateful for all of you!!!

Hello Everyone! Well, it looks like we are being submitted to court at this time. We will not know exactly when we are in court or any updates while in court. We will only know when we are out of court (4-8 weeks). We will receive a judgement at that time. Then the 30 day certificate of non appeal period begins. We will then be submitted to DFA (Dept of Foreign Affairs) for approval. This could take 4-6 weeks. After that, Embassy Appt is requested and US approval is requested (could take 1-2 months)...then, hopefully, we go get him! Please pray for God's Will most of all! Blessings, Tina

Hello everyone! We do not have news yet, but are hoping we will at least get a new photo soon. Isaiah will be 8 months old on the 13th, so I'm sure he is growing a lot right now. We just want to take the time right now to tell you all how blessed we are for your relationship to our family. Whether you are family by blood or by spirit, we are so thankful to know each of you! Hopefully, our case is going through court right now and we pray we will be out soon. We will only find out when we exit court, not when we enter it. So, we wait. On the homefront, we have finally gotten over being sick. I think it went: Joshua sick first, then Tina, then Lizzy, then Hannah, then Joshua, then Tina...yuck! That was not fun... Last week Lizzy had about 7-8 nosebleeds in a 30 hour period. We took her to the Dr. and he recommended a Doctor to do a cauterization. We didn't want to do that unless there were no other options, so Greg did some research and talked to Sadha at the Mount of Olives Health Food store. Put her on some vitamins, and she hasn't had a nosebleed ever since. Hopefully, she will be free of nosebleeds for a while, she certainly had her share! If all goes well, we will finish homeschool for this school year by April 29th. On the 28th, the girls get to go to work with daddy for "Take your sons/daughters to work day". They will have so much fun checking out all the cool stuff at the Navy Base! Maybe Greg will have a little fun too! Thank you all once again for your support! We are praying that we will have news soon.