The Maine Coast and a surprise phone call!

Our friends, the Morrison's, from S. Dakota came to visit with us for a few weeks. While they were here we spent a week at the ocean. Lily and her friend, Quinn, had loads of fun on the beach and in the ocean. The time with the Morrison's went by too fast and we are already planning our next get together!

While we were in Maine we received a suprise  call from our adoption agency with news of our first travel date to Ethiopia to meet Zeland!!

We are finally traveling to Ethiopia!
Wow! We were totally caught off-guard. We received the call on Tuesday, July 5th and leave July 21st. We will be able to meet our little boy and spend time with him. However, the primary reason for this trip is for a court date. We will go to court and formally accept Zeland as our son. We will then come home and wait to hear when we will travel back to bring him home forever (we expect this will be sometime in September.) At this time we are unable to post pictures until our adoption is approved by the Ethiopian court and the MOWA. We will post pictures as soon as we can, I promise!