Happy Saturday!!

I am sitting here with my house very silent. I thought that I should post now, because this may be the last time I can prior to us leaving. Thanks to Melissa for taking Alex and Callum today. Thanks to my sister for double checking my packing. (especially my 50 million papers needed) We are finished packing, my house is clean, the kids bags are packed and it still all feels very surreal. Gareth and I have been up every night since Wednesday until at least 2:00am. Not because we had tons to do I justI think that neither of our brains could shut down. We have so many feeling coming to the surface that have been locked away for so long now. We are both getting REALLY excited. This morning over breakfast we said, "this time next week, we will have all of our children sitting here with us." We don't want to wish the week away, and we certainly want to take this week to truly enjoy and get to know Liam and let him get to know us, but I truly think that the wall will completely be down when our family is united.

Our flight leaves National airport at 6am on Monday. We have a quick layover in Houston and then we head to Guatemala City. We should be there by 11:15. They are 2 hours behind us here on the East coast, so everyone in England, you will be a good 7 hours ahead of us:0) We should have him by 1:00 that day and he will not leave our side after that!!!!!! Our US Embassy appointment is Wednesday morning at 7:15 am, and his paperwork should be processed and ready for pick up on Thursday after noon. We leave Guatemala City at 6:30 am on Friday, arrive in Houston with a VERY long layover to handle his paperwork. We will leave Houston at 5:50pm and land at National Airport at 10 pm. We have already had friends tell us that they will be waiting at this end, which we can't wait for!!!! If you would like to meet him and welcome him in, we say "the more the merrier!"

Before I log off for the night, I will ask that you continue to lift us up in your prayers. Please pray for safe travel, pray for Liam's adjustment. Our hearts are already breaking for this beautiful 21 month old that is going to be handed over to a pair of strangers on Monday. If his little heart only knew how much we already loved him. Please pray that our Embassy appoinment goes well, and that they are able to process his paperwork correctly. Also, please pray for Alex, and Callum, (we will miss them so much!!!!) and all of those that are helping take care of them. My parents and sister and various friends that may end up taking them throughout the week. Our church has Vacation Bible School this week, and I was supposed to teach. Please pray for Demarie who has taken over my class as well as her own. Pray for Cindy and Stacey who are running the VBS and all of the other teachers that will be touching children's lives in a special way this week. I am bummed for missing it, but as we have all said, "this is God's timing, so I guess it will all work out in the end." ;0)

We are taking a lap top with us, but it is pretty old. I hope and pray that we will be able to post. We will not be able to upload any pictures, but hopefully we will be able to share our journey with you!!!!

I pray that the my next entry is from Guatemala!!!!!!!!!!!