the night before christmas...

ok. this is the real deal. not exactly the way we ever thought it would be... amanda is sleeping in the foothills hospital, i am at my sisters getting baby stuff ready and trying to be prepared for a kid that i have no idea of her size or weight... and really, it still doesn't seem really real yet. are we gunna fly there and be told they forgot her or something? stranger things have happened... but in the middle of this all, i am getting excited to see her pretty little face and try get her to smile for us...

right now, she's having a huge sleepover with a bunch of other orphans in the canadian embassy and then tomorrow she gets ready to board the plane around 11am and then arrives in ottawa at 10:30pm... we board our plane from calgary @ 10:30am and arrive @ 4:30pm in ottawa, go crazy waiting (we should be much better at it by now) and then wet our pants when we see her arrive and then scare her with hugs and kisses and strange food and toys. we "sleep" in ottawa and then depart for calgary to arrive after lunch. then, it gets crazy-er. we have another little girl! we don't know what to do with her hair! (i say afro all day long, but amanda's not as keen)

so if you could keep praying for us, for health for amanda and jayna especially and clear head and an extrodinary understanding of what to do in each moment, that would be swell. the surgen that did the appendectomy said that it had actually ruptured and its amazing that she's recovering as quickly as she is... thankfully it wasn't any longer... yikes. God has our back. thank you for working with him in caring for us in so many ways... its gunna be an interesting journey.

grace and peace
jake and amanda