What a wonderful experience we had on our girls trip. This was a repeat of the trip that we took to visit Kenzie, just the oldest girls and I, except this time Vicki Taufer joined us. We took a red-eye from O'hare and were in Guatemala City four hours later. We were united with our precious baby girl a few hours later. We enjoyed the day with her by the pool and later went in for a nap. Our trip was amazing because of all the people that we were able to meet. I love the way God orchestrates gathering His people together. Vicki became friends with so many and was able to photograph many little babies that were in the adoption process. A big highlight was visiting Hannah's Hope, an All God's Children orphanage in Guatemala City. We all were able to love on these babies and children, and share some of Jesus' love with them. This is a truly amazing orphanage and these little ones won our hearts again. The same little girl that wanted to go home with Kaley exactly two years ago was still there. She is finally going home to her forever family. These children were simply precious!
Kella Hope was still so little. She was sick with what I thought was maybe ears and a cough. After a day in Antigua, and her not feeling well, we made a trip to the ER. It was in a private hospital, and I was very impressed with the care that we received, other than the nurses trying to stick her baby arms to take blood. She has such tiny veins, and I finally couldn't handle it anymore, and told them to stop. They said this is the rainy time and babies get sick with allergies and respiratory symptoms. They sent us home with medicine and she had a much better night. Praise Jesus!
I am more than grateful to Steve for allowing us to go and for keeping up the fort at home. He did a great job and it was such a blessing to get to love on our little girl again. Kaley had the hardest time leaving her. We are very blessed with the great care she receives in her foster family. Norma truly loves this little girl.
We are still in family court, which was a disappointment for us. We know God already knows when she is coming home.
We arrived back in Bloomington at 4:00 am, just in time for Vicki to get home and teach her workshop to a bunch of Irish photographers that same morning. What a memory for us. It was so much fun to watch God move in Vicki's life and get her excited for their road of adoption. She came home and they began their process with full speed ahead. We are so excited to see where the Lord leads them in this beautiful journey.
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