These are the first photos we saw of the twins. March 30, 2009 our adoption coordinator called us with the referral for these sweeties!
This is Phelix.
This is Phisher. 
One week later we were blessed to receive these photos of the boys. Phelix is in the hospital for pneumonia.
Phisher was at Sele Enat orphanage. Dr Kee Park, a physician from Cape just happened to be in the capitol of Ethiopia. Thank you Jesus!
May 5, dear friends, Eric and Chantelle traveled to pick up their daughter from the same orphanage where the twins were. They brought us back many photos of the boys and video of them. These are priceless treasures. Thank you Beckings, you are AWESOME!
We are on our way to Ethiopia, a little lay over in Dubai.
We have just arrived in Ethiopia and this woman who works for our agency in Ethiopia picked us up from the guest house where we had just checked in and brought us to the care center to meet the boys for the first time.
This is a photo of Phisher and I meeting for the first time. He was all smiles, such a happy boy! You gotta love his pink and white striped jammies, as they say, "tough guys wear PINK."
This sweetie is Phelix. Hard to believe he only weithed 6 or 7 lbs at six months. He was so tiny, but I instantly fell in love with him.
Here we are the day before we left Ethiopia to return home to Missouri. The beautiful woman with her arms around me is Hana. She runs the orphanage, her husband works to connect adoptive families to their Ethiopian children. All of the children at the orphanage call Hana and Abebe, Mom and Dad. Our family gave Hana the gold locket she is wearing. It has a picture of each of the twins in it for her.
We arrived home on July 4 th. This July 4th, we held a HUGE celebration in honor of the boys and our friends and family who prayed the twins home and have been such a huge support to our family. Thank you all, WE love you!!
Next update I will try and post photos from the wonderful celebration and a movie that a dear friend made for us of our journey to the twins. It is AMAZING!
3 comments:
It is amazing how the boys have changed! They are so beautiful! I would love to get together someday and let the boys and Ada catch up. She is so funny and could get them into some mischief for sure!
LOVE IT! Put those pics up please!! Oh the memories of our time together are flooding back and reminding me of how thankful I am that we traveled together. Grace says Hi to her buddies! I'm thinking we need to plan a visit soon!
Isn't it amazing how much they have grown? They both seem to be doing so well...I know they get plenty of love and attention from all of you!
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