meeting family and moving things along...

We've gotten some great time in Delaware with Matt's immediate family, and yesterday with Matt's grandparents, aunt and uncle! Lily was thrilled (ok, so she was sleeping, but she'll be thrilled one day by the pictures) to meet her Great-Mom Mom, Great-Pop Pop (from where she gets her hair :) Great Aunt Candy and Great Uncle Angelo. We had an awesome day with them and will get to see them one more time at the Delaware "Meet Lily" shower on Saturday!


Matt is all set to leave from Philly for Florida and then on to Haiti on Monday. We had a large setback yesterday in Lily's paperwork...after several trips several different places and hours on the phone, we discovered that while we thought we have been waiting these 2 weeks for her birth certificate to be processed, they were actually waiting for the hospital to send over her paperwork, and the hospital has been waiting for the midwife who delivered Lily to sign the paperwork. We had been told this was done on January 5th, only to find out yesterday that it still hasn't been done, and we are, therefore, still at square one...almost 2 weeks after her birth.

Needless to say, this has been quite frustrating, and we're beginning to question whether Stacey and Lily are going to be able to fly into Haiti January 27th as hoped. This is just another one of life's opportunities to "practice what we preach", and trust that the Lord will continue to provide for our needs in His perfect way and perfect timing! Please keep praying that this all comes together as He wills!