My good friend Holli has been on an adventure for the past 2 1/2 years with her adoption process from Ethiopia. This week we celebrated that joy of knowing she was going to be picking up her two little girls from Ethiopia in just a few days. I helped in organizing an adoption shower for her with our American group and also helped out with a group of ladies from church with another shower. I made her up this super cute diaper cake for the American shower. I was so sad that I didn't get to make it to the actual shower as our work permit appointment got scheduled down in London for that day and we couldn't change it, but she said she had a great time.
Holli has such a great following of friends here and you can see all the support she has from our church community by all of the people who came to her other shower.
Here a few ladies that are also some of my new friends and in my small group from church - Katherine, Kate, and Rachel. They are so lovely and it has so fun getting to know them and have familiar faces to see in church.
Holli got some really nice gifts, especially these comfy baby carriers as with twin baby girls they wanted easy ways to carry them around without having to push strollers all over. She got a designer one and Andy her husband got a "sport" one.
Holli is such an amazing women and I am so glad to call her my friend. She has been an amazing spiritual guide for me and helped learn so much about myself and my faith. They have been through so much with this process and today they were faced with flights being cancelled because of the volcano going off in Iceland and possibly not being able to make it in time for their court dates with the girls in Ethiopia. We had an amazing prayer session for her, Andy, their kids who were in the States with Holli's family and for their two girls. Andy and Holli did end up driving all the way to Milan to catch a train to Rome to get a flight to Addis in time to get their girls. Congratulations to them and I am so excited to see their family of six when they get back to the UK in May!
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