We have been enjoying our Easter break this week. Although Joel has strep throat with an ear infection and I have something going on; we have been using this week to rest and not work. I did manage to clean some kitchen cupboards earlier in the week and throw out old food and things that take up space like pimientos (if I use them they just get picked out of the food), cream of wheat (which no one but me will eat), expired food and such. We had three good storage bags for the trash dumpster!

I'm making some photo booklets for our new children. We still don't know who they are yet, but I just had some pictures printed, and I found a file on the Yahoo Ethiopia Adopt forum of words for photo lableing in Amharic and English.  Our dossier is in Ethiopia now and we are just wating to find out who the Lord wants to bring into our family!

Yesterday at the doctors I had one those moments. A moment when you realize you're looking at somebody that you will be like. When I was pregnant with Sarah and in my last week, I had a sonogram. The tech thought it was 95% assured we were having a girl. All that week I walked around and stared at little girls thinking to myself, "I'm going to have one of those! That is a whole new realm of spending money."  After three boys I could buy barrettes, tights, cute shoes, headbands, rufflly panties, etc... So yesterday in the wating room at Kaiser a white lady came in with a very dark little girl, it was obvious the little girl was not of mixed race,  in a sling attached to her. Within a few minutes I mustered up the courage to ask her if the little one was adopted. She said, "Yes!" It was the first time since we've been in the adoption process that I have actually met someone in person who is a white lady with a black child. I know they exist all over the place and that I'll run into them more often since I'm on the "lookout" now. It was one of those "I'm going to look like that" moments.

Jesse, Sarah and Joe are all down in Ensenada, Mexico, this week building a house for a family. They'll also spend time with families that they've built for in past years and maybe even evangelizing. They come home Saturday afternoon/evening. I hear they're having a great time!

Well I better go and get on those pictures! Have a great day!