I'll be home for Christmas

We awoke yesterday to the most amazing news! After a long week of no word from Jamil we awoke to emails from him and the embassy. The paperwork should now be completed and his visa should be issued as I type this update. We were told yesterday that once that is complete Richard, at the embassy, would tell Jamil, when we could book his plane ticket. We are beyond excited that it may be possible to get Allan here just in time for Christmas! So we await word, hopefully today; and then Allan will be on his way to TEXAS!

Construction began yesterday on our gameroom. When we bought this house, there was a garage that had been converted to a game room and we knew it would be a space that we would eventually use as an additional bedroom-gameroom. Well, after moving in, we discovered mold, and that the studs had all rotted at the bottom. So much more extensive construction was required than we had expected. God put before us a wonderful man, that I had met at the store, after we printed his business cards. His name is Joey Livesay and he and his partner Mark, completed all the foundation work yesterday and will begin on the rest of the room today. We're adding a bathroom, putting in a closet, moving windows, putting in central heat and air and sheetrocking the entire room. It will be a completely new space for Max and Allan to move into, once it's done, hopefully in 3-4 weeks. My head is swimming with all the details, so fun to put together a new teenage space for the boys.

We appreciate all the prayer support so many of you have offered. Mark and I have seen God do the most amazing things over the last month. Our Father's grasp is so large and so extent that when we both look back at what's already taken place it simply astounds us as we can see God's hand all over this adventure. God has orchestrated it all, in his own miraculous way and we're simply ecstatic that Allan may soon be in our midst.