My 2 Ethiopian Girls: Evan turns 12!

Saturday, February 14, 2009

Evan turns 12!

H A P P Y B I R T H D A Y . . . E V A N!

Evan celebrated his 12th birthday by becoming the owner of an electric motorcyle. He is so excited. He paid half and we paid th eother half. He had a friend, Brandon, with him to go to the movies and then have a celebration back home until 10:30pm.

Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough Ice Cream. Mom's watching her weight and I have to go and purchase this amazing cake and I didn't have a bite. How hard was that? Haaaaaaard!!

Brandon O. and Evan

I must love him very much to have to go out and buy this and not getting to have any. But hey, this was NOT about me, right?

A little Rock Band gig...

Tiggy has fun all day long with Evan's spongebob balloons. She calls him "jumjob"

She loooOOves balloons!

Rock Band jam

Evan's new birthday gift. An electric bike.

3 comments:

michelle said...: Lisa and David, we so enjoyed meeting you and your family tonight. We look forward to your visit in July in the RV! Keep up with us on our blog,
www.outmansfrog.blogspot.com and you are welcome to email me at joutman@charter.net
Blessings,
Michelle O; February 14, 2009 at 7:52 PM
Lisa said...: Michelle,
Wow ... you got home fast! We sure enjoyed meeting you and your family as well. We'll all keep in touch and follow each others journey with our adoptions. Now I'm going to check out YOUR blog...; February 14, 2009 at 8:24 PM
michelle said...: Lisa
if you email me your email address, I'll send you photos from last night.; February 15, 2009 at 5:08 AM

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Welcome to our Site ... This is our Journey of our Adoption from Africa and our Life in Denver.

This journal (blog) is about adoption, our change of life from California to Denver and our little girl who we have adopted from Ethiopia. Our daughter came home to us after 9 months of tons of paperwork and she has come home to us on August 18th, 2008.

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So far, this has been an amazing journey. The adoption process is more "stuff" than you can imagine leading to what has been an incredible change in our lives. This journal is from my heart to you the reader and to our daughter whom we just recently met. It is also dedicated to the biological parents of our adopted girl who may or may not be alive. I do know that Tigist was placed in a safe place to be found by police, who then took her to an orphanage. In doing so, they saved her life! I applaud her Mother and/or Father's courage in the decision to offer their child a life full of opportunity. They decided to put her up for adoption by relinquishing her in such a way. This is such a touchy subject, yet very personal to both the biological parents and us. We will always honor them in the lives of our daughter...they will never be forgotten! That....I can promise.

Where we are in the adoption process....

We picked Tigist up in Addis Ababa August 9th, 2008. She is home, healthy and very happy!

We passed court on June 23rd 2008, traveled on July 31st, met Tigist on August 9th, and arrived home on August 18th.

What has changed is that we are not adopting two girls, which is what we started out attempting to do, but ended up with one amazing little 2 yr. old. Just another reminder how this process can be so unpredictable.

Why does our blog title says 2 girls...well, we sponsor a very sweet 12 year old girl in Ethiopia and have adopted another. So even though we weren't referred 2 girls as was the plan, the title coincidentally still applies to Our 2 Ethiopian Girls! One here, one there! We eagerly await the letters and pictures Fatuma sends us and we send letters and photos too.

The meaning of the Ethiopian flag

(adapted from a Yahoo group web posting and Unicef-Ethiopia)

Ethiopia is one of the oldest countries in the world, and the only African country that has no history of colonization. Upon their independence, many African countries adopted the colors of the Ethiopian flag - green, yellow and red - that became known as the Pan-African colors.

The official flag of Ethiopia consists of three equal and horizontal bands of green (top), yellow, and red with a yellow pentagram and single yellow rays emanating from the angles between the points on a light blue disk centered on the three bands.

The significance of the colors on the Ethiopian flag are interpreted to have a connection to the Holy Trinity, as well as the three main provinces of Ethiopia. The red stripe stands for power, faith and blood. The yellow strip symbolizes peace, natural wealth and love. The green stripe represents the land and hope.

The yellow pentagram on the blue disk, also known as the National Coat of Arms, is a symbol of the current government; it is intended to reflect the desire of the nations, nationalities and peoples of Ethiopia, as well as of its religious communities, to live together in unity and equality. The star represents unity of the people and the races that make up Ethiopia. The five rays on the outside of the star represent prosperity, and the blue disk represents peace.

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Evan turns 12!

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