Sweet Visitors

Sam and Jacob lived in the same transition home (orphanage) in Ethiopia. We met and became friends with his mom and dad back in April. They live in Galesburg, IL (about 3 hours away) and we always talked about how fun it would be to get together someday.

The Mowen family spent about 2 months in Ethiopia waiting to pass court and bring Jacob home. They came to Chicago this weekend to spend time with us and welcome another little girl home from Ethiopia. We had a blast together laughing and reminiscing.

The boys loved checking each other out.

They are only about 2 months apart and they could pass as twins.

SMILE BOYS!

Mac was not really excited about having his picture taken.

Jacob's parents, Brad and Tara are starting the process again to adopt from Ethiopia. The crazy/exciting part is they are requesting a sibling group of up to 4 kids. Yes, you read that right. The kids could be between the ages of 0-14 years! We were saying they might reconsider a big family after 24 hours of Murray Craziness.

Our kids loved the new water-sprinkler-ball-shooter thing that the Mowen's gave us and the dads and babies watched all the action.

Sweet.

Tara and the sweethearts.

We had a wild and crazy time at Ikea and the babies laughed.

We also met the Snyder family in Ethiopia last spring. They are FINALLY home with their daughter. With weather delays the Mowen's couldn't stay an extra 24 hours:( Thankfully we could go and welcome Aliya Wefe home!

Sam was showing off his strong legs.

The Snyder family together at last. They live in Iowa so I'm sure we'll have a reunion!

Scotty loved Aliya and wanted to know when she and her brothers could come spend the night again.

So did Amelia and on the way home she requested a sister.... oh, my.