Brothers' Gotcha Day

Diana and Nicolas' brothers are going to meet their adoptive parents on Wednesday the 27th of Oct. This has been a wonderful and exciting journey which began way back in early 2009.  We were waiting to be matched with our children while another family was also waiting to be matched with their children.  Nicole from Children's Hope International called us and asked us if we would like to have a boy and a girl rather than the two girls we were asking for.  We said, "Yes, we would consider that if they felt that the children would be a good match for us."  A few months later, Nicole called and told us about Diana and Nicolas.  There were a few things that made their situtation unique. The first thing is that they are part of a sibling group of six that are being separated into three groups.  The second thing is that the three families that adopt these children must agree to let the children keep in touch.  The third thing is that they have one family that will take the two younger girls, and if we would take Diana and Nicolas, they still did not have a family for the other two boys.  They would not release any of them until they had families for all of them.  So, we began to pray.  The Vanderveen family had agreed to take the two younger sisters and they were also praying along with their family members.  This is were the brothers' parents come in.  Mrs. Vanderveen's brother and his wife were praying and God began to speak to them about adopting the two brothers.  They began the paper work requesting the boys and the other children were released to be adopted to their families.  Both the Vanderveens and us traveled to Colombia at the same time in January 2010.  We both stayed about three weeks in Colombia, which is record time.  We hoped it would not take so long but here we are awaiting the boys arrival in the U.S. nearly one year after bringing Diana and Nicolas home.  God is a creative God and has creative ways of making things work out for the best.