Celebration and Supplies

We are 17 days away from our departure to Ethiopia to pick up our little girl Mahelet! Excited is an understatement. One of the things we are going to do while we are there is bring a few supplies as well as have a small celebration at the orphanage she has been at these past several months. We plan to bring small gifts to all the children, supplies for the team working there, and a guitar to leave behind for them to keep.

We would love any and all help anyone can offer to help with the celebration and supplies.

A few items that would be great are:

1. bubbles for blowing

2. coloring books

3. crayons

4. rubber balls that can be inflated

5. handheld airpump

6. monetary donation $55 already donated!!

7. a guitar donated by some wonderful people in Carthage, Missouri

8. a capo

9. guitar strings

10. guitar picks

11. guitar case also donated from Carthage, Missouri

12. tuner

13. single serve baby formula (Similac)

14. new blankets

15. diapers/wipes

16. ointments-diaper rash cream, antibiotic ointments, etc.

17. other the counter medications for infants and kids i.e. tylenol, etc.

Thanks so much for everyone's help and feel free to leave a comment here or email us of what donation you want to help with! You can use our PayPal button if you want to make a monetary donation for the supplies.

our prayers have been answered-we are officially THE MORGAN FOUR

It's a great morning in the Morgan family as our adoption court date passed. Only about 50% of court dates pass the first time.  Please watch the video to meet our new daughter!!!

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Instead of bronze I will bring gold, and instead of iron I will bring silver; instead of wood, bronze, instead of stones, iron. I will make your overseers peace and your taskmasters righteousness.

Isaiah 60:17

it is so fitting for today!!

IT"S FINALLY HERE!!

TONIGHT!!!!!!!!!!!
Our court date is tonight!!
Ella is as excited as Ty and I are. Tonight she said, "M likes apple juice, too, like me and she smells good, too!" and then we were playing dress up and she got M out a honey bee costume. Oh our girls are going to have so much fun together!

So, now I'm going to try to control the butterflies in my stomach!! We feel so blessed and excited right now!

Thank you so much for your prayers! It is all in God's hands and there's no other place we would rather it be.

GLORY TO OUR KING!!


we'll chat tomorrow and hopefully show you pictures and tell you her full name...so stay tuned

2 days!!

2 days!!!!!

Our court date is in only 2 days!!

We are SO excited, I can't even explain it! This week is flying by. I can't stop thinking about "M" and that her and our lives are about to change in such a wonderful way. We have some awesome friends, Erica and Jason, who have adopted from Sierra Leone, Africa. They gave us some wonderful advice when we started the adoption process last February...they said to enjoy the process and try not to hurry time away. That is how I feel right now. I feel like I'm 7 years old and tomorrow is Christmas morning times 1,000!!! I feel like I am going into labor in 2 days!!! I will never (hopefully) be in this spot again with M. I love this feeling!!! This feeling of excitement and the butterflies in my stomach is a bit overwhelming. And to top it all of, we got 6 new pictures of M today. It looks like she got a brand new soccer ball and trust me, from the looks of the one in the other picture...she needed it! Adoption is a roller coaster of emotions but right now I'm going down the biggest peak and am filled with excitement and joy!! I am so thankful to God right now that he gave Ty and I this calling. I am getting to experience a feeling that most never will. Praise God!!

Thank you all for praying for us. We have gotten so many e-mails, texts, notes, etc that say you are praying. Thank you!! It means the world to us!

REMEMBER: COURT WILL TAKE PLACE SOMETIME WHILE YOU ARE SLEEPING TOMORROW!!!! AAWWWWWEEEEE!!!!!!!

if you can't sleep, call me, Lord knows we won't be!!

4 DAYS!!

We are so excited! Only FOUR days until our court date for "M"!! We are so ready for her to be part of our family. We painted her room this weekend and Ella is very excited about that and wants everyone to see!  "M" has new Grandparents, Aunts, Uncles and Cousins that are very ready for her, too! She is one loved little girl and we are ready to shower her with the love that has been building up for the past year.  We are praying, praying, praying that everything goes smooth on Friday. 

the morgan FOUR!!

Anonymous is a genious!

"Sometimes I'd like to ask God why He allows poverty, famine, and injustice in the world when He could do something about it...but I'm afraid God might ask me the same questions". ~Anonymous

I found this quote on another blog and it really hit me. I do ask God this question sometimes. Usually I don't ask "why" to God but being involved with Africa this past year, I have asked why do people die from lack of food and water--so many precious people everyday....well, here is my answer!