HE IS ON HIS WAY HOME!!!

Nathan is en route to the United States as I type this post!!!
I couldn't be more excited or more stressed right now. I leave for Las Vegas on Saturday so I've got 3 days left to get our house, car and yard in tip top shape for Nathan's arrival. I don't know yet what day he will arrive here in Kansas but it appears to be the 20th or the 21st. I return to Kansas on the 20th so I will not have any time after Las Vegas to prepare anything. I'm so wound up right now!!!

Also, today I got a call to interview for a job at Carmax as a sales associate. I interview on Thursday at 3 pm (CST). Please be praying for this interview to go well. Not only did our basement flood but our roof is now leaking so we are most definitely in need of employment! :)

And last but not least, news on the adoption front. Last week we had some issues that I won't go into here with our choice of home study agency. Those issues led us to make the decision to choose an adoption agency with the ability to do our homestudy in the state of Kansas. We headed back into the world of agency choice and I just happened to look on the Holt International website. We sponsor six children though Holt and I have loved this agency for some time. I love their history and their faithful practices. Originally we weren't able to go with Holt because they did not have a program in Africa. We knew we were called to Africa so we had to look elsewhere. So, when I stopped into their site the other day, I found the greatest news! They expect to begin their Ethiopia program in the fall!!! They have completed the process to become an authorized agency and expect their approval to come through sometime in the next few months. All of this means that we have decided to use Holt International as our agency.

We have also made a decision to wait several months to pursue our adoption. We are feeling like we need a few months together after this deployment without the stress of paperwork and without having our focus be on the adoption. I tend to obsess about one thing at a time! We thought it might be good all the way around just to take a few months to focus on our relationship. All of that means that we'll give Holt some time to get their program up and running as well. We feel good about the decisions made in the past week. It does mean a slight change in this blog for a bit. It is still certainly meant to be our adoption blog but for the next few months it will be more of the Kelly and Nathan update blog. We've found that several of our friends and family members have enjoyed the blog and the ability to keep up with us. We'll keep updating about how Nathan is doing at home and how the job searches are going. We'll add pics of life here in Kansas and once we head back into the world of adoption paperwork, we'll certainly let you know!!

Thanks for your prayers and for keeping up with our blog. I'll probably post again at the end of the week before we head to Las Vegas and then you won't hear from me for a week. Keep praying for Nathan and for our job situation!