April 27, 2008

Hi everyone and God bless!

We sent off some of the required paperwork to the Rwandan embassy in Washington, DC on Friday. We hope to hear back within a week and if we get this first step of the approval process we can then start with the other paperwork that needs to go to the Rwandan government and the US government to seek approval to do an international adoption. We will keep you all posted as to how that goes.

We have been talking with our girls more and more about the adoption, answering their questions and talking about what it will mean to have one or two more kids in the house. While we understand that Macie and Asia Grace don't fully understand what this all means we do feel it is important to make them as much of this process as we can. To date they are both really excited about it and have been all smiles when we bring the topic up. Heidi and my biggest concerns still or at least our biggest area of anxiety is around the travel required and the potential to have to be away for up to 3 weeks to pull this off. But, we pray daily and know that GOD has placed this on our hearts for a reason and each day we become more resolved to follow GOD's will on this. With GOD all things are possible.....

Also we have been fortunate enough to get a dining room at the Red Blazer restaurant in Concord on Saturday, June 14, 2008 for our fundraising event. The event will run from 6-9 pm. Thank you to the Red Blazer! Also I was able to line up a friend of mine who just happens to the be the best magician around to be the main entertainment for the night, his name is Dave Chandler and you can check out his website at http://www.davechandlermagic.com/. You will not want to miss this guy in action, he is truly amazing! We will be holding a live and silent auction throughout the night and have already got some great donated items for the event, the biggest being TWO 2ND ROW BOX DUGOUT SEATS TO THE BOSTON REDSOX LATER THIS SUMMER! YES THESE ARE THE BEST OF THE BEST TICKETS! They are literally the 2nd row behind the dugout and should get any true Redsox fan excited!!!! We are extremely grateful for Aramark food services for donating the tickets to our fund raiser!

I will update the list of auction items as they come in so people can stat planning on what they will want to bid on, so stay tuned!

Take care everyone and god bless,

Pete