Pretty in Pink...and green

My sweet little sister has requested "Please update your blog!" So I'll give her something while she is taking care of four puking kids.
Isabelle and I have just finished little Y's bedroom and as you can see the girls in our family love pink! We even think Y does too because just about every picture we have seen of her she is wearing pink! Oh, I need to give a BIG Thank you to my beautiful friends, Beth and Marlene who helped me paint Y's room!!

Today I was really convicted by a scripture I read this morning on our YG prayer list.(Thanks Kim!)
Jesus said,"If? If there are no "ifs" among believers anything can happen." Mark 9:23 As I have said before I have grown comfortable waiting. But in my mind I've realized it isn't about waiting, it is about disappointment. "IF" I think the worst then I won't be disappointed when we don't pass court. But the "Ifs" need to be replaced with "when." Hope is such a precious thing. It can change everything! So..."When" we pass court on December 2nd I will post pictures and Y's name!:)

Pictures, Pictures and more Pictures!!!

Sorry, I can't share them with you just yet! I hate it when someone does that to me. But just let me tell you...She is absolutely stunning!!! Her smile lights up a room! Rob said it is bad enough that Isabelle has him wrapped around her finger; his youngest daughter does too!!
Friends, It is getting harder and harder to wait! With every new picture and update we see more of who she is. And she is beautiful. I want so badly to hold my daughter in my arms. That time will be soon. Praise God!

Peace.

God is so good! He has given us a great peace. His purpose and plan is perfect! Although we aren't sure when we will be picking up sweet little,Y, we know it will happen. She is being loved by the staff and nannys and by our YG family and most important by her heavenly father!

Sad news

We received an unexpected call from Duni today. Today was our court date and we did not pass.:( There was one piece of paper work that was missing. It was a government agency over sight, I guess. All of our travel group had the same problem. Our new tentative travel dates are in mid-December IF we pass court on the second try. We are so blessed to have a fantastic travel group. There are five families in our group that got the sad news today. Please pray for us.
We know that God has a great plan but right now we (The Sparrs') can't see beyond ours.

One Month and counting!

It is SO good to be counting DOWN! For so long we were counting up. Adding up the days of the wait!
Yesterday our sweet little daughter received a package from us! Our yahoo group friend, Amy Lusse and her husband are in Ethiopia RIGHT NOW! They took our package and all our love to our precious girl! We are so thankful to this family! In the excitement of her trip she thought of a bunch of us and on her blog gave us a written glimpse of our children! She is so wonderful!
I am at the point were I can barely write about our little girl without tears in my eyes. It is not sadness it is so much emotion! It is gratefulness, love, longing, happiness and so much more. It is hard to describe!

T.I.A.

Rob has come home from work with some new lingo. Our good friend and Lead Pastor at our church, Dean keeps reminding Rob, "T.I.A.".
Till In Africa, nothing is set! Besides traveling quite a bit to various parts of Africa,Dean and his wife Beth have two adopted children from Africa so they are all too familiar with the ups and downs of this process.
So, You might have noticed a new time line to your right. If you read my last post you also might notice it is a day off. The whole tentative part of tentative travel dates has already been proved! I know it is only one day. But it is one day closer to bringing our daughter home! Now also realize it could go the other way. One day you might take a peek at this blog and see the time line has been changed to reflect a January travel date! God is good and He will bring our daughter home.
We hold Y loosely in our hands because we know she is firmly in HIS!

Tentative Travel Dates!

Yesterday we received our tentative travel dates! They are TENTATIVE! But here they are...Nov.30-Dec.5th! If we pass court the first time around these are the dates we will be traveling. We don't know the specific day of our court date but from the e-mail that was sent we assume that it is in the next 3 weeks. So as soon as we have passed court our little one is officially our daughter and we can share her name and picture here!
Please pray for successful court dates over the next 3 weeks. There are many of us from AWAA and other agency's waiting to pass court!