National Adoption Day

In honour of November 19th, which is National Adoption Day, we hosted a showing of the new documentary "Rescued".  It was a wonderful film about adoption and we really enjoyed it!

We had a wonderful day of fellowship with our friends the D. family.

Here are the pictures!

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We started out the evening with our famous Bible game!

When ever another family comes over, Daddy puts together a Bible trivia game before we eat.  We divide into teams--Boys against Girls!--and put our heads together.  The team who wins gets to go through the food line first... and sometimes they even get an extra helping of ice cream, but I think that is more of a saying than actually true!

Oh, and Daddy put the game together like "Jeopardy!"

The Girls Team!

(Go Girls!)

The Boy Team!

Daddy giving out a question...

Us Girls thinking, thinking, thinking...

And we won!!!

For the record... we only lost once!  :)

(Sorry Boys!)

After dinner, Shiloh introduced us to the movie.  She was our movie host, you know!

The little ones...

And the whole group!

In case you are wondering who took the picture... I set up my camera for a "self-picture"!  We were quite pleased with the results and amazed that we got everyone in the shot!  :)

It was a wonderful evening!

The official movie trailer.

Posted By:

~Bethany

1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7!!

Rejoicing in the Lord!

Girl Time Ends... And a New Life Begins!

Whew!  What a week!  I admit: I am behind on posting...

First I must say how we ended our "Girl Time".

Yes, we watched the entire "Pride and Prejudice" movie (1996 version)... in two days!

I competed in Oregon Right To Life's Oratory contest...

...And by God's grace, I won first place!!!  I will be competing at state.

The competitors Bethany, Luke Douglas, and Chloe Anderson with the judges.

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After all our fun, we rushed off to the airport to pick up the rest of the family!

Now, I must out in that right before we left, we had a terrible storm and ended up losing electricity!!!  That means, no lights and then no water, because we are on well water!

And here is the entire family... except for Eden who was the photographer.

After a very special time of greeting and meeting each other, we headed off to a hotel room...

All SEVEN children!

Introducing:

Our adorable Havilah Tirfe.

Our handsome little Benjamin Abezu.

We made do with what we could in our hotel room.

Thankfully, Mommy had just made a big pot of Minestrone Soup which we grabbed on our way out the door for a delicious dinner!

For this family of NINE, the hotel room was quite tight!  :)

Judah was all giddy to now be a big brother!

Okay, I just have to post another picture of the cuties!

Benjamin

Havilah

Daddy brought home a lot of "booty" (as he called it)...

Here are the girls in their Ethiopian shawls, outfits, and jewelry!

It made us feel really rich!

"Thank you, Daddy!"

Brothers...

Eden's "Welcome Home" cake!  She did a great job!

And yes, we've already got them started on the Irish Ceili Dancing!

That's how things work in our family!

I hope you enjoyed this rather lengthy post...

We are overjoyed with the blessings that God has given us!

Thank you for your prayers, support, and friendship during this time!

Visit our adoption blog:

http://www.safelytoarriveathome.blogspot.com/

Posted By:

~Bethany

Girl Time :)

Skyping with Auntie Kaggy- What a joy!

Right after we got off Skype with our family in Ethiopia we saw that Auntie Kaggy was on and Skyped her.  She answered!  What could be more fun then Skyping with Auntie Kaggy? 

We love you, Auntie Kaggy!

<3

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One of the Girls

"Girl Time" Begins!

Yes!  It's true!

Yesterday, we dropped Daddy and Jordan off at the airport for their trip to Ethiopia to pick up our two new siblings! 

Now at home, it's just Mommy, the girls and Judah...

Us girls, decided that we would make party out of this.  So for a whole ten days (while the men are gone), we will be having our much needed "Girl Time"!  Stay tuned to our blog for the frequent updates that we will be posting on our blog.

Watch this video to see what we will be doing:

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And they're off! 

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We kicked off our fun last night by watching about five of the "Little House on the Prairie" episodes... and we went to bed at 2:00 AM!

Well, we have to admit... we are going to miss the guys... but we girls are going to have the time of our lives!

Stay tuned!

Posted By:

~Bethany

We Passed Court!!

Drawing By: Eden &  Graphic By: Shiloh

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