Pray for our friends...

http://bringingkatyahome11.blogspot.com/    Please pray for our friends. Their daughter who they adopted from Ukraine is having a very risky brain surgery on the 21st of March...they covet prayers.

This place I have grown to love...

D's facility is so big. There are almost 400 special children that live here...they are not all children, some are older women. This picture is a of the bedridden section where D lives.

One of several clothes lines we pass everyday at the facility. The children really work in this place like it is a home. The children have chores of bringing the clothes in or hanging them out.

Three of many stray dogs. One section of the building allows the children/teens to have cats inside...we have never seen animals near the bedridden section of the facility.

Apartments we pass everyday near the facility.

 The snow here is beautiful. This was our view today coming up the stairs leaving from seeing D.

 This is Titiana who supervises all of our visits...sweet lady we really love her.

 Precious boy, wonderfully made by the Lord

We walked alot today.

 This is walking up to the front door where we go in.

 Once our taxi drops us off at the gate, we walk this path to the front of the facility.

The well known gate :) We get dropped off here. There are guards on the inside who are very intimidating...after about a week of coming, all the guards recognized us as the Americans and let us in with no problems.

A good day

Thank you for your prayers. A quick summary of our busy day. We met with the judge this morning who had requested to see us today. When we arrived she decided she did not want to meet with us but did want to check our paperwork. She found one little thing she wanted changed ( a very small error)...we ran around doing that then took our papers back to her. She asked us to come into her office, she reviewed our paperwork once again and said she was happy with that and pleased with our papers. She said she would see us soon (yes, we know the date ) for court! She seems very strict but seemed kind.

Our plans are to have court soon, Lord willing gain a son  :)(Though it is not official until the 10 day waiting after court is up). Leave here on Sat. Get to TX on Sun. Leave for SD on Tues. Get home to SD on wed....I will fly out with a friend to return to the Ukraine to pick up D and to finish about 2 weeks worth of final paperwork.

We had a great day...God answered prayers. We were able to learn more of D's medical history and more about his parents/past which is a very big miracle!

Thank you for the prayers....now off to get tickets home :)!

Here are some more kids...

 To the left is a lady selling flowers, we see this everywhere and they are pretty cheap.

 Ukraine makes wonderful use of the underground. Below you will find many shops and restaurants.

 The opra house across the street from our apartment.

A church down the street from our apartment.

Preliminary Hearing today (Monday)

The juge requested a preliminary hearing for today that did not require our attendance, only with the social worker and the judge. Now the judge has requested another preliminary hearing tomorrow morning (Tuesday). Please pray all will go smoothly when we meet the judge tomorrow.

Anna, Naomi, Luke and Beth

Here are some interesting things that are different in the Ukraine....

 Light switches

 toilet flusher on top

 Electrical sockets

This is how we purchase our water. Here this cost a little over one American dollar.

It is Sunday....

tonight U.S. time, our judge will be meeting with the social worker from the town D is in for the Preliminary hearing. This is the first time our facilitator said he has had a judge request a preliminary hearing and extra paperwork. We have to remember though that this judge has not done many adoptions. There have only been 4 adoptions from the institution D is in since it was established. Please pray for this and even pray if everything goes well that she (the judge) would possibly move our court date up some days.