Hanging Out

Yesterday we took Mariada to school, we wanted to get some chores done but Roger Mullins from Hope for the World was in town for one day and we had never met him and really want to thank him first hand for the work he and his people do for the orphans of Albania. Hope for the World has been so truly wonderful to us and even more so to Mariada, they are the reason that every single child has a birthday party and receives a Christmas gift every year, and so much more. After meeting with him we picked Mariada up from school and went to lunch with the Hope for the World team, Mariada was so happy to see Roger it was great. We then went to Wednesday Church, Mariada always goes. We went to diner, came home and watched the beginning of Cheaper by the Dozen again, she loves that movie!

Today we took her out of school to drive down to Tirana; we had a meeting with the head of the Albanian Adoption Committee. Teuta is a very sweet woman and she had tears in her eyes when she hugged Mariada, she speaks just a little English so thankfully Agim from Bethany was with us to translate. The meeting went well and we drove back up to Shkoder, stopping in Lezha to see Skanderbeg’s grave. Skanderbeg is an Albanian hero. We then came home and warmed up some leftover’s and watched the rest of Cheaper by the Dozen!

Tomorrow is the BIG day, court, I think we are all a little nervous and praying that it all goes well. Again I am happy and shocked at how great we are being treated by Hope for the World, Fredi and Prenda are going to be at our hearing for support. They had a prayer last night at Church as well. We just love them. It's so nice to have the support in person, they treat us like family.

I got my USB cord today while in Tirana so here are the picks over the last few days!
I'll post more tomorrow, it takes a while to load them!



"The Bridge in the Middle" it's really cool I wish the weather had been pretty so you could see how blue the water is.
Mariada, that's the castle behind her on top of that mountain, still have to see it up close.
Our first day!
Just a few minutes after we met, the little one is Mariada's roommate and best friend Marinella.
Our first picture! Oh so happy!