Thank You

Thank you all so much for the well wishes and Merry Christmases you all sent us. We truly enjoyed all of them and loved reading each one (kind of like Christmas Cards). We didn't do much today and had to take Natasha back to the orphanage as our weekend extravaganza was over but it was a great one. : ) before we took Natasha back we took her to the airport store for her to buy some gifts with her allowance she has saved up during the year plus, a gift that will go into a gift exchange with all the kids at the Christmas party. There was so much for her to decide from that it took awhile but I think she was happy with the choices she made. Then Viktor dropped us off at the Center again. It was a bit warmer today so it was nice to be able to take our time to look at things. She has two more gifts to find for people then I think we will be done! She knows just what she has in mind for people and doesn't want to get anything else instead of it, which is just like her Mama : ) Tomorrow, I think we will be joining the kids in going to a dolphin show(at least this is what Ted tells me) So we will see what happens! Galina will join us on Wednesday as she is still not needed here for any paper work type things. We hope to get a good estimate from her of how long things will take for us after the court decision. We want to try and get our plane tickets booked ahead of time so we won't have to wait too many days after we are done with the US Embassy in Kiev. So we would love to have prayer for getting tickets for all of us on a date where we can leave right away when we are done with all of our appointments. Thanks again for all your well wishes and thoughts. We miss you all and can't wait to return home to you all.

No pictures, as we didn't take any today!

PS Miss Julie, you have gotten Ted, Lisa and even Natasha hooked on Soduku! Once Ted was always bored looking for something to do. Now he is always working on that book! It is neat to watch him and Natasha trying to work it out together : )