YEAH! We are leaving Moscow for CVG (via JFK) tomorrow morning!

Yes, we are excited!  Can't wait to get home and hug our girls, officially introduce them to their little brothers, hear all about their time with the wonderful Oestings, and go HOME, HOME!  I want to take a moment to truly thank all of you who have been reading this, AND praying for us that we have been so blessed by all of the prayers that have been offered up.  Today, while reading from Luke chpt 10 or 11, Jesus is instructing his disciples, and telling them that if they go to a friend for some loaves of bread, and the friend isn't too excited to open his door to help him out, but in their persistence the friend finally rises and gives him as many loaves as he needs, how much more will your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to those who ask Him.  "So I say to you, ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened."  Everyone knows those verses, but it is so applicable to our lives, our daily lives.  We are so dependent on our Father in heaven.  We are nothing, and would have nothing without him.  So we ask, we seek, and we knock!  You all have been asking for us, you have been seeking God's face for us, and you have been knocking on his door for us, and for that we are ever so humbly thankful.  Your persistence to our Heavenly Father on our behalf has certainly provided what we have needed, we have found what we came to get, and many upon many doors have been opened.   Our need for prayer will not end after we arrive home tomorrow.  Our journey with these little guys is really just beginning, so some more prayers humbly asking the Father to help us train them up to be Warriors for Him are desperately needed.   Honestly I know that you will not want to know all of the boring details of everyday life, which is what it is going to be when we get home.  (Maybe that's why I don't like FB too much!~hehe)  So, unless something huge happens or I think there are milestones, we will not be blogging as frequently as we have been. 

In light of all of this, we have a hugly long flight tomorrow.  Our flight from Moscow to JFK is 9 1/2 - 10 hours long, and you know, you are always on the plane forever before you even take off.  Not that I am complaining, but it is hard when you are 2 and 3 yo to be seat-belted in (when that has never been anything that you have had to get used to).  Please pray for Diester and I~~we will be whining the whole time! ! !   Seriously here, we need some BOLD (stealing from the Borden's prayer requests while in the Ukraine adopting) prayers to our Father for this trip home.  We are asking that you ask the Lord to cover this trip.  Our day is going to last forever.  When we leave the apt. here at 5:30 a.m. Tues., it will be 9:30 p.m. on Monday evening at home.  We do not make it home until 7:30ish our time on Tuesday evening, so in one day 22 hours are going to pass all the while we are making it home.    That is one LOOOOOONNGGGG day for anyone!  So, yes, we humbly ask that you pray for us if you could before you go to bed, and when you get up.  Please pray for patience for Diester and I, for sleep for the little guys, for their ears not to hurt, for the seat belts to be a non-issue, that they can calmly rest when they are tired,  that Roman will be able to use the potty chair when he needs to, for a safe airplane ride, and prayers for the pilots.  Ask the Lord to change me if there as there are certainly things I need to do better.  I know it is a lot, but just like the loaves of bread, our Father does like to give to those of his children who ask.  Praise the Lord!   

Finally, as we move on in this journey, if you think about us, please pray for us to train them up in discipline and love to be strong warriors for Him!  He is worthy of all!  Praise Him!

Love to all of you, and my prayers go out to you that the Lord may bless your lives beyond your wildest imagination!  He has done that for us!  We have renewed lives, and we have two beee-yoo-tiful boys! 

Michelle