First Care Package and Welcome to Travel Email

The day after we got out referral, we made contact with two families that will be traveling soon to Ethiopia. Both families offered to take a care package to our little guy and even more exciting they offered to take some more pictures of him!!!!! Since we received 3 referral pictures on Jan 27th, we only have a glimpse of what he looks like. And those pictures were taken almost a month ago. We are sure he has changed and we can't to see what he looks like this month!! This is such a precious gift that we are so thankful for.
The first family that will be taking this package to Jacob is the Garrison Family. They just found out earlier this week that they have been cleared by the embassy to come and pick up their 3 kiddos. So they will be leaving on Saturday to start their journey to Ethiopia and to come home as a family of 9!! The other really cool thing about this family is that they live in the same town as my mom. I'm really hoping we get to meet soon!!
Thank you Garrison's!!!!


Brad was excited that Jacob got his 1st Cubs outfit!! I also sent a pair of red pants, but I didn't have those when I took the picture.

On Monday we also received the Welcome to Travel email. We had many more papers to fill out and copies to be made, but I think we got it all done. Now we just have to apply for a tourist visa since we will be there for more than 2 weeks. We are really hoping this means that we will be traveling soon. We are waiting for a court date, then we can travel. Come on court dates!!!!!