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Well, I've had a number of people ask me when I was going to start a blog...so, here it is!  I don't know how well I'll keep up with this, but I'll try to keep you posted about the major events in our lives.  Speaking of major events, the main reason I'm starting this blog is to document our Ethiopian adoption journey.

This Thursday (that's tomorrow already!) Aaron and I will be getting our fingerprints done.  That is required by the United States Citizenship and Immigration Service.  We are waiting for our court date to be assigned.  I'm really not sure when that could happen.  We'll have to travel to Ethiopia twice--once for our court date and then again to pick up our children and bring them home.  Those 2 trips will be a few weeks apart.  We are adopting 2 beautiful 8+ year old children--a boy and a girl cousins.  Their pictures are up on our wall and we talk about them everyday, but it's so strange to realize that they know nothing about us yet.

Today was the first day of school for our 3 kids.  S. is now in 2nd grade, I. is in 4th grade and P. is in 5th grade.  This is P.'s last year in the elementary school.  Time really does fly by.

S., I., & P. waiting for the bus

So, there you have it!  My first blog entry.