The women our girls are named after!!!

Nora Elizabeth Drinkwater went into the presence of our Lord on September 7, 2007. Our oldest daugher will be named Nora Yegile Snow, after her Great Granny who loved the Lord with all that was within her. What a blessing to be with her in her last moments, she was so ready to see Jesus. Granny was a precious gift to our family and we thank the Lord for her sweet and faithful spirit, that we'll share with our girls.

Diana Carol Johnson went into the presence of our Lord on December 6, 2011. Our second oldest girl will be named Diana Zenash Snow. The last couple of years the Lord really grew my sweet friendship with this precious saint. She truly discipled me and spoke truth into my life that I'm forever grateful for. Before Diana's passing this year she prayed and prayed with me for the little girl we would be adopting, she couldn't wait to meet her. Our prayer is our girls would come to know Christ and meet Diana in heaven. Who would of thought it would have been three gifts from our Lord. Her faith was fearless, and led many to our Savior! 

 

Kristina Jewell Schlegel went into the presence of our Lord on February 14, 2007. Our littlest daughter will be named Kristina Tsgereda Snow. My sweet and dear friend  passed away with stage 4 breast cancer. She had the biggest and brightest smile of anyone I've ever known. She truly lived a life that pointed others to Christ. Please go to her website and read more about the life of one of my closest friends- http://www.kristinascalling.com/ and http://www.caringbridge.com/visit/kristina . You will be blessed by reading her journal entry's on  her caringbridge site. Even in death God is using my sweet friends life to bring people to Him...

We love giving our girls names of women that truly lived lives that drew others to Christ.

"Precious in the sight of the Lord is the death of His faithful servants."

Psalm 116:15

We will say our girls names with such sweet memories of faithful women!!!

Went to the Ordinary Hero fundraising dinner... What a blessing!

May we never, ever be the same! Thank you Jesus for laying on our hearts what you want for us. We were so blessed to be connected with so many families that adopted through Ethiopia, God is so good.

What an amazing Night! We so can't wait to go to Ethiopia!!!

Thank you so very much Tabitha for having us as your guests!!!

Getting Passports!

     It will still will be quite awhile before we are able to get the girls. We have lots of paper work that gets sent off and we have to wait on the government to process things. We are hoping this won't take many months, but you can never predict how long the process will take. Rest assure though anthing we have to do will be done ASAP! Currently we are still waiting on our home-study to be finalized, so we can turn in our I600-A. We finished everything and now just waiting for the copy of everything, we so hope to have it by Monday and be able to send off our I600-A on Monday as well. We'll keep you all posted, thank you so much for your prayers, we greatly appreciate them.

Here's us wiring the money to secure our girls!!!

      Loved sharing our story with the ladies at our bank! Woah... to the crazy day of getting all the funds into our account and being available in time. So many people went above and beyond to ensure this would take place. We are so grateful to everyone of you! Can't wait to bring our girls to meet the ladies at Wells Fargo Bank in Manteo, North Carolina, you ladies are a blessing!!! 

From very Grateful hearts!!!

Please watch our thank you that Parker taped for us. This was like take 20, because I boo hoo'd through the first 19 takes...

https://www.dropbox.com/s/q0mouvc28jd5cst/2012-04-23%2017.24.10.mp4

     We are truly so overwhelmed at the outpouring of love and support in our efforts to give three beautiful sisters their forever family. Our words truly seem so inadequate to describe to you all how incredibly blessed we feel to be given the gift of being a Momma and Daddy to three daughters and three sons.

  ... "For truly, I say to you, if you have faith like a grain of mustard seed, you will say to this mountain, ‘Move from here to there,’ and it will move, and nothing will be impossible for you.”

(Matthew 17:20 ESV)

     We prayed for the Lord's will in this situation and truly hoped His will matched the desires of our hearts, and we can't help but believe He made His will very clear by providing all, and then some of what was immediately needed to secure the girls.