Are They Ours Yet?

So another Saturday come and gone and looking at the calendar, we have been here 3 weeks already! It is very disheartening too see other families that have come after us already home on their 10 day waiting period and we are still sitting around waiting for our court date. To say the least I am very disappointed in this facilitation team! But Amanda and I are making the best out of the situation that we have been put in. The Burman's and Amanda and I get up every morning and just laugh because we figure it can't get any worse than it is. Please continue to pray for the Burmans as they have been away from home a month now and I can't imagine the toll it is taking not only on them, but their children back in the States.

On a good note, the Burmans celebrated their wedding anniversary yesterday. Tonight for dinner, mama and I got together and made a HUGE spread. Alim made shashliek on the grill
and I gave them a taste of good old fashioned southern barbeque. I made Memphis country style pork ribs. Babooshka and mama thought I was crazy putting sugar in a rub for the meat. When it was all said and done, it was a big hit. I did get the recipie for the marinade that they used to make the shashliek with, it was amazing! As you can see from the pictures, our visits have been going extremely well. The first picture of Rorie was absolutely hilarious. We took my backpack with some toys for the kids to play with. Rorie scooted over to the backpack and proceeded to pull all of the toys out of the backpack and threw them all over the floor. Then, instead of playing with the toys, tried to climb into the backpack. With a little help from mama, well...you can see the result. So attention all family and friends, when her birthday comes around in June, we would just like backpacks for her! hahaha. The second picture is the kids in hats that my mother made for them. The running joke about Cole's hat is that is it very bright colors so we don't lose him in the snow! It has been pretty warm here, so we are going to have to wait until we get home to drop him into a snow bank to see if we can find him :)

We got a phone call last night and the facilitator told us that our court date changed AGAIN. This time it is moved back to Monday at 1:15pm. I am really glad that we are staying the whole time and not going home for the 10 day waiting period. It would be too late to book tickets back home at a decent price, and our court date has been moved so many times, we would have paid $1000 in ticket change fees. Unbelievable...well, I guess it is just another blessing the Lord was watching out for us. Thank you for all the prayers, but to whoever is praying for patience ... QUIT IT!!! hahaha we have had enough waiting, we want this over and done with so we can bring the kids home! On a more serious note, we do thank everyone for the prayers and thoughts as we continue to push forward toward the goal. Please keep praying for our attitudes as it is frustrating every day. Pray for the Lord's provision and currently we are a week over the schedule we were given and possibly looking at being here an extra week. But on the positive side, we have been here 3 weeks and it looks like 3 more weeks to go, so we are at least half way. Please continue to pray for the Burmans as they continue with delays that far excede ours. Pray for their family and it has to be hard to be away from 5 kids at home. Thank you so much and until next time we speak again.....