Not sure what to expect...

Today I finalized plans for our weekend guest! We will meet him and his foster mom at a halfway point tomorrow evening (he has a full day of school tomorrow still! Craziness!) and then he will spend two nights with our family and we will meet up with his foster mom on Sunday afternoon to drop him off. I am so excited. And nervous. And... well, I don't even know what to think at this point!

It's hard to know what to do while he's here. I mean, I don't know much about him yet or what he enjoys doing. We are planning to do our usual pizza and a movie night on Friday night. That way he can get a chance to get settled in without it being overwhelming. The weather looks pretty crummy for the weekend so right now we are thinking about going bowling on Saturday and then giving the boys a chance to just hang out at home and play. From what I understand he likes to play games so we will probably do some board games and that kind of stuff as well. I'm super excited that he will get to come to church with us on Sunday!

I'm really hoping that we don't bore the poor child to death, but we also didn't want to overwhelm him by planning a ton of stuff OR set a precedent that we are always doing tons of fun things and running all over the place. After all, if he gets to join our family he'll eventually see that we are just pretty normal, boring people :) Hunter is quite excited to have a visitor coming for the weekend and we moved his Legos out into the playroom so that the boys could more easily play with them.

Thank you for all the encouragement. We really appreciate all of the kind words from so many of you! We feel so blessed to have so many supporters to encourage us through all of the ups and downs, I know that we will need it now more than ever!

We have heard a rumor that Ben's orders are in and that he will probably be flying in a week or two. However, we haven't gotten any official phone calls telling us much of anything, so we will see what happens when he goes back to work on Monday! No matter what we know that this is all in God's hands and He has it all under control!!! THANK YOU for the prayers; please keep 'em coming!!!

Love you all!

B, E & H