You FOUND us...

Tom and Lois here...we leave on November 3rd for a loooong airplane ride to Ukraine where we plan on adopting our two children. We have been "in the process" of adopting for over 16 months - it has been one long paper pregnancy.

For those of you who don't know, we have NO idea what age or sex our children will be. Well...we have some idea - we know we won't be adopting teenagers! But they could be anywhere from 2 to 9 or 10 years old. We know we want two and we know that they will be siblings. Other than that, you're guess is as good as ours.

We have 2 girl names and 2 boy names already selected (yes, they will have their names officially changed). If we have girls, the first one will be named Anna Elizabeth (after Tom's late mother). If we have another girl, she will be named Madison Elise. If we get a boy, the first will be Tyler Jacob and the second will be Zachary (we don't have a middle name yet...it took us almost 6 months just to come up with a second name!)

The adoption process has been long, hard and expensive! We HOPE that we are getting to the fun part. We know it will be difficult to be parents. That isn't news for anyone who IS a parent. We know there will be tough times and times we will want to scream (again...pretty normal scenario for parents). We know our lives will change tremendously and we know that we are going to LOVE being a mom and dad to two wonderful kids. The first six months will be difficult (we have learned this through the adoption board we are on). Our kids will go through major changes (imagine being them and going from very little to the Land of Excess!) and WE will go through major changes (we have been married for 14 years - we are used to doing our own thing!) We also know beyond anything that we go through - we will rejoice in the gift of two little hearts to love. We will have our family. LET THE FUN BEGIN!

You won't find much updated on here until after November 4th (unless we go absolutely crazy packing and start blogging about it!) We will update as often as we can - there is no way of knowing what region in Ukraine we will be in and if they have internet abilities - but...we will update as often as possible!

Keep praying for us! We hope it is a smooth ride, but it will be a wild ride, regardless!

See you in December (or with some heavy prayers...perhaps late November!)

Tom and Lois