About a Week Away!!!

We are one week away tomorrow from flying out to go get Kebeb!!!!!!! We are so very excited and nervous and anxious all at the same time. I think we are kind of getting things organized. I think I am finally about done with all of the paperwork and rounding up paperwork that we need to take with us. I am just praying that I do not forget anything that we need.
We have finally have all the details worked out for who is staying with our other sweet kids. Please pray for them while we are gone. I wish we could all go, but it is just not possible for a couple of reasons, Luke would not do good flying that far on a plane and we do not have enough money to take the kids with us.

OK, better go for now. I will try to update again before we leave with more of our flight details and other prayer requests.

I do need to share with you that God has done awesome things through our adoption journey. We began our journey last September and I asked God to please allow us to get our little one July 2009. There were a lot of reasons, but that does not matter, God does answer prayers. Not always how we want them or in the time frame, but God has done awesome things in my life through this process and my Faith has grown so much I can not even begin to tell you. My God can do ANYTHING!!!!

Kebeb Michael Zimmerman!!!!!!!

We are so excited and proud to introduce our son Kebeb Michael Zimmerman!!! We leave on July 4th and will be gone until July 14th!!

Kebeb we can not wait until we get to see you in person and hold you in our arms. We are counting down the days until we meet you. We love you very much!!!
Love
Daddy and Mommy

If anyone would like us to take pictures or take a small care package, please email me at
joejenaz@yahoo.com Please have the information/picture of your little one and or care package to me by June 29th. We would love to be able to do that for you!!

We Passed!!!

Praise the Lord, we passed court today!! We give all the praise to Him. We are so excited it is so hard to contain myself in order to get all of the details worked out. We are still working on plans, but we will be in Addis the week of July 6th.

Kebeb Michael Zimmerman is officially our son!!!!! I will post some pictures soon!!

Happy Birthday to our Sweet Boy!!

Happy Birthday today (June 13th) sweet little "K"!! We wish so much that we could be with you to celebrate your 2nd Birthday, but just know that we are coming soon and we will celebrate to the max when we get you home. Your big brother Luke has a Birthday coming up also on July 1st, so it will be great to celebrate both of your lives together. We are praying for a great Birthday present to pass court on Monday!! God is in control and we are waiting and trusting in Him!! Have a great day and know that we love you very, very much "K"!!
Love,
Daddy, Mommy
Samantha, Hailey, and Luke

By the way our Young adult Sunday school class is having a garage sale for you today!! They are so excited to meet you!

Faith

As we approach our 4th court date on Monday, I am working at the computer and looked at one of my quotes that I have been hanging on to, sorry I just wish I would have wrote down who said it, if you know I would love to have the name.

"That's exactly how God wants his children to live: by faith in future grace - the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen. You can either stand in His place, or go at His pace."

I am so thankful for a God that cares about me and gave everything at Calvary in my place. What an awesome God I serve, how about you?

Thank you for the Encouragement

Just wanted to write a quick post letting you all know how much we appreciate all of the encouragement since our last court date. We have been staying busy and time seems to be flying by. Our court date is next Monday and we know God is going to do great things no matter what happens next Monday. God is good and never fails.
Our sweet Mary from Gladney has been wonderful through all of this and called just to check on us. What a wonderful agency God has blessed us with to be able to help many families to bring home our little ones. I don't know about all of you, but it just seems amazing to see how perfectly they match the little ones with their forever families. All of the blogs that I read and pictures that I see of families they are just meant to be and are a perfect fit. I should not be surprised though since God ordained and knew who each of the members of our family was going to be when He created the world.
I have been gone helping my parents, they are moving at the end of the month. What a job trying to get everything packed and trying to look for a house too!! It has kept my mind busy on other things then dwelling on our court date. We will go home on Wednesday and then I have to get busy getting ready for Bible school next week. The kids also have swimming lessons next week. June is really busy and it really helps me to keep busy. Well, better go for now.
Thank you again to all for the little notes of encouragement, we really appreciate it!!!! We are praying for all of the court dates this week and next week. To God be the Glory!!

We still did not pass

Please pray for us, we still did not pass court. Supposedly they did not get the opinion done. That is all we know. We are hurting and struggling, please pray for us. New court date is June 15th.