Growing our family in faith, hope and love

So much is happening with the adoption and with our family of 4, soon to be family of 6 (well, hopefully soon!!!). This Christmas season we have a theme for our family and it is simplicity. Celebrating the birth of Christ - pure and simple. It is such a great blessing for our family to have made the choice to not overschedule and to enjoy a few holiday festivities while also being home and experiencing Christmas without the exhausting things "to do" While all the acitivities are fun, we are truly enjoying the activities we have picked and teaching the girls about the birth and the amazing journey Mary took on the donkey and then delivering in a barn.
We are also expanding our family and feel at peace and very led in our adoption journey. We are being stretched in our faith and believe with all our hearts that God would not lead us down this path and then not provide not only financially, but in every other need that comes our way on this journey. We are also filled with hope and joy as we anticipate the arrival of our girls. Mackenzie and Sydney are also very excited and can't wait to meet their little sisters.
To date, we have our homestudy for the China program done and ready to be delivered tomorrow. We also have all our dossier documents either finished or in the process of being completed. Upon completion they will need to be authenticated and translated and sent to China.

The twists and turns in the journey

We have decided through prayer, thought and lots of discussion to go forward with a concurrent adoption in China. This means our paperwork will remain in Vietnam and we will wait for the country to open back up, as well as move forward with an adoption in China. We have the choice of taking which ever comes first or taking both. We are going forward with bringing 2 girls home - one from Vietnam and one from China.

In Jeremiah it says I know that plans I have for you, plans to prosper you, give you hope and a future. Wow is that ever the case. God is so good and faithful and we had know idea going into this that we would end up on this route. But he has had it mapped out from the beginning.