Simple Pleasures

This week we enjoyed some summer vacationing! Michael and I took a couple of days off from work in order to go camping with our great friends, George & Dara. For the past several years the 4 of us head north to Kohler-Andrae to do some camping, swimming and card playing. I have to say that we are getting to be pretty good camping cooks as well (especially with the help of George's gas grill!) We enjoyed french toast, steamed veggies & chicken and of course smores. If you are interested in seeing just how much fun we had, then you will have to go to You Tube for the Britney Fly Swatter Dance Video... actually I am personally hoping it's production never made it that far.

As Dara & George's sign states below, camping is truly one of life's simple pleasures... however getting there isn't so simple. It took several trips to the store and a couple hours of packing to be prepared for our outing. And even then, things were forgotten (i.e. forks). I still can't imagine how it will be organizing ourselves for our trip to Ethiopia. Or, packing for 3 pretty soon!

Mehandis is 8 months old today and we received an update about the Ethiopia Courts on Friday. It turns out that the date for court closure has been pushed back. Mehandis's case was initially scheduled for this past Friday; however, all of the 16 cases set for that day were re-scheduled for this coming Monday. Our social worker told us that all of the cases heard this past Thursday went through without a hitch. So she is hopeful that the same will occur with Mehandis's group. She is keeping her fingers crossed and we are sending lots of prayers.