Merry Christmas!

This year has flown by for our family! It all started last

Thanksgiving when we were expecting the call for us to

down to Mexico to start the finalization process. The

call never came and we knew we would be spending our

third (and hopefully final) Christmas down in Mexico.

After the New Year, we tried as patiently as we could for

the call. It came on President’s Day. How excited and

relieved we were! We packed up and headed to Mexico

February 17^th. We had several hiccups along the way, but

made it to Juarez, Mexico the beginning of March only

to wait some more. We were out of patients, money, and

beginning to think we were never coming home. We got

the last appointment on Friday, March 12 at the

consulate. If we hadn’t had that appointment, we knew

we would be stuck in Juarez for another week. We crossed

the border Saturday, March 13 just in time. We later

found out there was a shooting of two American Consulate

workers which resulted in the consulate closing for weeks

after. We feel so blessed to have gotten out when we did!

We made it to the El Paso International Airport to find

no flights available anywhere! It was Spring Break for

Colleges and Universities. We stressed about what to do.

While the kids and I got lunch, Eric checked out all 7 car

rental places and again everything was booked. We just

had to laugh at this point! We made it 34 months and

now of all places were stuck in El Paso for 3 days. We

headed to a motel to wait out the days. It was our forced

vacation with no money. We made the best of it. We got

a flight to SLC on Monday, March 15 and finally made

it home to Nibley Tuesday, March 16. The kids wanted

to jump right into school. They have been thriving ever

since! We did summer school at home with them to help

with the language and some catch up. They are both in

2^nd Grade and love it! Their adjustment has been so easy.

We are truly so blessed and thankful for everyone’s help &

support! We were able to go through the Logan Temple

on September 18^th to be sealed as an Eternal Family.

That is when I felt like our painfully long adoption

process was truly over! We know the Lord guided us and

helped us along the way! Merry Christmas! Love, Us