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So On May 18th at 12:21 p.m. we received the phone call with the referral of our two sweet precious girls! I cannot share pictures yet, but trust me when I say they are gorgeous!!! We now wait for our court date, and the first time we will finally get to meet our little ones!

Ok like I said I am really bad at this......

So like I mentioned before, I am really bad at this whole Blog thing. I thought it would be a great way for me to keep track of a time line, but finding time to get on here and actually type about it is REALLY hard for me! So where we left off is that our Dossier was being mailed to Ethiopia right?? Well yes it did get there, quite awhile ago actually, May 11th to be precise. On May 13th ( yes, just two days later ) we received a phone call from our family coordinator at America World. As I stared at the phone while it was ringing, thinking to myself I don't know anyone in that area code... it hit me! Wait a minute that is America World calling me!! I nervously answered the phone. It was Nicole. As I am shaking thinking I must have missed something in our Dossier, she surprised me. The reason for the phone call was actually to see if we would be willing to reconsider our request for one child to two children!They had two little girls in the orphanage that fell in our age request, that joined the orphanage around the same time and were unrelated but VERY attached to each other. Needless to say I could not breathe, could not talk, and just sat there staring. Nicole asked if I had any questions and I said I really could not think of any at the moment but I am sure I would be calling her right back. Sure enough as soon as I hung up I called right back asked a few questions and then proceeded to make the phone call to tell my husband. Of course I told Nicole we would need to talk about it though the weekend and get back to her. She said of course that would be fine, and she would be praying for us. My husbands reaction was the same as mine, shock,excited, nervous and many more emotions. So the weekend came and went. We spent much of it praying, talking with our kids, speaking with our parents and pastor, and just working through the details. What it basically came down to was this. There is no way on earth this would have happened had it not been in God's plan for us. It is almost unheard of to receive a referral that quickly after your Dossier arrives in country. We had always had a calm feeling about who our child (and now children )was. We knew God had chosen them for us before we even knew who they were. Monday morning came and we made the phone call to Nicole to say that yes we were willing to accept both girls into our home! There was more paperwork to fill out, we had to change our home study, and I submitted more paperwork to USCIS to change our approval of one child to two children.