Adios!

Tonight, Javi, Joanna and I take the red eye flight to NY and then to the Dominican Republic. We will only be in country for about 4 days. The main purposes of this trip are to see Javier's family, let his family see Joanna for the first time, bring them tons of stuff (mostly for them to sell) and to check on our finished apartments. For all of you reading this thinking - beaches, all inclusive resorts and relaxing vacation - think again. Think more like big family gatherings, humble conditions, rain, mosquitos and a big pig roast - still fun, but different. It is always great to see Javi so relaxed and enjoying every minute. The kids will stay with grandma and grandpa which they are so excited about and a young missionary couple is going to stay at our house. I have SO much packing and cleaning as I prepare for our trip, the kids' "trip" and company staying at our house - but I am almost done. The only luggage with our personal things are the backpack and 2 carry ons - the rest is for his family.

We are hoping to find out some news concerning Zambia when we get home. On a great note, we got an email this morning from our agency saying that our homestudy is written and will be sent in to the government as soon as it is reviewed by the boss at the agency! This is great news. We also requested that she broaden our homestudy some so that we would be free to adopt 3 children if a sibling group happened to have 3 children. We still intend on adopting 2, but we did come across 2 neat sibling groups in Ethiopia (one that is available) and both of them had 3 beautiful children. We just want to be flexible.