Day 6- Sunday

Today we stayed in the apartment most of the day. Today is our last day in Kiev without the babies!! I have been updating our blog alot of the day. Hunter gave us a wonderful lesson on the 6 days of God's Creation. I am happy to report he remembered almost everything he learned in the beginning of the school year. Tyler and I took notes. He than pretended that he was a waiter and made menu's for us. He is so imaginative and cute, the best part was that he used his leapster as the little computer restaurants use now for putting in orders. He than made plates with his legos and gave us them with our order on them. Than we sat together on our bed and watched a sermon by Russell Moore. We had read his book "Adopted for Life" and that week we decided to commit to adopting. Tyler got to hear him preach at Covenant Life Church in Gaithersburg, MD when he went to the states with our best friend Chris Soares. The Moores adopted 2 little boys from Russia, the sermon was about how we are all adopted by God, and with that called to care for the widows and the orphans. Not every person is called to adopt or do foster care, but we are called to care for them in some way. We can support those financially who are adopting, if we don't have the financial ability to help, we can watch their children, or bring them meals and most importantly pray for them. The one thing he said that stuck out the most was that we need to stop asking "Should we help the orphans" but "How can I help the orphans"!!! Wonderfully said!! It was a great Sabbath rest as a family, our last as a family of 3, Praise God!

We ventured out of our apartment to get lunch/dinner. We decided to go to a food court we found since it was cheap. We have seen a ton of sushi places but to be honest scared to try it. We decided to get a pizza with salami and Tyler and I each got sushi rolls, him with the smoked salmon, mine without. Well when we got our food, the pizza not only had salami but also tomatoes and black olives. If you know me than you know I picked all that off, but it did taste good. As for the sushi both came WITH the smoked salmon but my wonderful husband picked it out for me!! It tasted wonderful although I at both Tyler and I's wasabi so my sinus are wide open!! And the best part was that we will never find Sushi that cheap!! Another praise!!

Ok well now that we are all updated, I am going to go. We all need showers and pack for our journey to Kirovograd tomorrow. Please pray for us, we have been warned that the driver drives really REALLY fast!!!! Also here is a specific prayer request Tyler and I are praying: That we will have out court date on Friday and that they will charge us only $1500 for the waiver of the 10 day waiting period instead of $3,000.00 (since we didn't plan for this). That we will not have to pay the $800 per child to expedite their Ukrainian passport. That we will travel back to Kiev with the babies over the weekend. That we can get our 2 day appointment at the U.S. Embassy to get their visas next Monday and Tuesday. That the Italian Embassy will stop playing around and give us the paper we need. And that we can order our flight far enough in advance to get a good price. We have alot of uncertainty with everything here. When we ask a question, they say don't worry about it and than ask for thousands of dollars we didn't know we needed. We are definitely not in control of ANYTHING and are at their mercy. Please pray for this!! I know it's alot!!