Monday, July 25, 2016

Long time no post...

Well, it's been a very long time since we have posted on our blog! I can't believe that we haven't posted in about 3 years now.  It's crazy how time flies when you are having fun!  Well, Claire is 3 now and full of personality and spunk!  She is potty trained (except for nap and bedtime) and she sleeps in her big girl bed every night.  I cannot believe how fast she is growing up!  It seems like yesterday that we brought her home from the hospital.  Mike and I also train and compete in triathlons and have recently made a huge change in our eating habits as well.  We really enjoy the healthy lifestyle that comes with this sport and are enjoying competing in races together.  Here are a few pics of our family:







As you can see, a lot has changed in the past three years.  Our adoption has changed as well.  As you know, the plan was for us to adopt from Ethiopia.  We got weekly updates from our adoption agency and it seemed that the wait time for a child from Ethiopia kept getting longer and longer.  We spoke with our case manager from All God's Children International and were informed that the wait time for a child from Ethiopia was 4-6 years.  This was back in January/February of 2014.  We were given the option to transfer to another country or wait and see what happened in Ethiopia.  We prayed about it and decided to transfer to Bulgaria.

We started the paperwork process over and got all of our needed information for our dossier sent in and are officially on the wait list for Bulgaria.  We are currently in the process of updating some of our paperwork for Bulgaria.  We are excited and can't wait to meet the second child God has for our family!

~Tam