Drum Roll Please............................

We have a COURT DATE! Yes, it's true. Next Thursday 10:30-11am. We went to the orphanage to get some papers, and were to go to the mayor's office, then to court to ask for a date. We stopped at the orphanage and then Anna told us to stay at the orphanage and they would be back. "Okay." She said they would be about a half-hour. We figured that would probably change as we have seen how such things normally go. So, we had a nice time with Natasha while Makc and Alona were at school. There is not a lot to do. She rode a bike around over and over and over and we walked behind her. I think she loved that we were watching her and stopped to give hugs and kisses often. At one point we went back upstairs where her group lives. She staged this whole scene where she had David sit on one end of the couch and me on the other. She made both of us put our legs up so that we were lounging on the couch. She went and got a blanket and put it over me then got the remote and sat down to watch tv. I asked her to come and snuggle with me, and she was so sweet. She looked so happy. I walked through that area yesterday and there were maybe 8 3-5 year olds sitting in front of the tv and their caregiver was sitting up on the couch. How we often take for granted the simple pleasures of a family. Okay, so Anna and Kostya show back up after noon and tell us we have a court date. We are seeing the head judge over the area. Anna waited about an hour for the judge. She said she was nice, and said she was booked all week, but happened to have one 30-minute appointment on Thursday from 10:30-11. Would that work? "We say yes"! So, plan is to go to court, head to Kiev where I have to sign papers at the Embassy and get a flight out on Friday, May 8. I asked my Bible study gals to pray that I would be home by Mother's Day. David and I plan on sharing the story of all God has done through this for the rest of our lives. Love, Jenny

Photos!

Okay, we should have a big post tonight but we've been trying to download pixs for like 2 hours now and it's super late here. So, we found out we just have a horrible connection in our room. Right now I'm in the little lobby hoping I don't wake up Tatiana and her husband :). They probably think we're "crazy" Americans! She is actually very sweet. Oh, useless info but for irony for all the lovebird comments: The place we're staying is called "Tatiana's Romantica"!!! What a hoot. The top floor is "uhh, how do you say? honeymoon suite". It has this huge arrangement of fake white flowers on the bed and a big stuffed animal. Very cheesy! We're in the one-room flat on the bottom floor. "We take cheapest room" :)
So, sing along with me, "How great is our God. Sing with me, how Great is our God? And all will see how great, how great is our God!" I don't know all of God's plans through this, but I can tell you I've never seen God act in such mighty ways. Just amazing! So, we start the paperwork this morning. It's moving and moving and we get to the Inspector's office. If you remember from yesterday...well as Anna put it when I suggested I could pet Inspector's arm if it would help, Anna replied, "me, I like americans, eeenspector, she not so nice." So, Anna goes in and we stay at the orphanage (a great time with our kids, also some heartbreaking stories that I must share when I have more time. We saw first-hand today that there are "the least of these" in this world. Make no mistake. There are little ones suffering, hurt and oppressed from no cause of their own, but parents who do not know the great love and mercy of our Savior. We cannot close our eyes to them!). Several hours later, Anna and Kostya come to get us and we ask how it went. Well, the Inspector did her paperwork and signed off on her stuff. Anna then graciously offered to drive her to the mayor's office so he could sign off (the LAST thing needed before sending to SDA in Kiev and making a court appointment). The Inspector Said YES!!!!!!!! So, they dropped off the inspector and she said check back at 7 or 8pm. They did and turns out the mayor had already left but she left it front and center on his desk and we are to go pick it up at 9am tomorrow morning. Then we are headed to orphanage for something (not sure what) and then to the courthouse to set us a little court date. WHOO-HOO!!!!!!! I stood outside that Inspector's office today and I prayed that God knows that I will praise Him either and any way about all this, but Lord please move heaven and earth if you have to and get this through. Give the lady mercy, amnesia, whatever is needed. Yes Lord, I love you! I wish I could shout it from the rooftops instead of sitting on a porch, but He knows our hearts. I know many of you are rejoicing with us! Please pray for the mayor and the court dude tomorrow! There is a holiday on Friday and Monday, but we could have a date on Tuesday. That means I could be home before MOther's Day!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! LOVE, Jenny and D

While you are sleeping...

we are enjoying a beautiful morning in Khelmnitsky (still not quite sure how to spell it and sure not able to say it. Sound starts with "h". I know that much now.). It is 11am. We are waiting. You do a lot of that. We are sitting on a bench outside of a copy place where Anna is making lots and lots of copies. I can't tell you again how happy I am that we are here and not in Kiev anymore. There was nothing wrong with Kiev. It's just so big! You know I'm more of a small-town girl. This city is still pretty large, but it is really very charming. The streets are tree-lined. David is working on his Experiencing God study. It's quite relaxing, although I'm still ready to be home. This is a BIG day in that we are hoping lots of paperwork gets completed. I know I mentioned in post last night, but please pray the Inspector is super gracious to work beyond fast on her portion of the paperwork. The orphanage director is being great and has her portion done. We went to pick it up at 10am this morning as we were asked to, but we didn't get it yet. She told Anna she needs to do something else first. Not sure what or why but we know that the director is being careful to make sure everything is done just by the books so there will be no problems. We appreciate that! One neat thing I forgot to mention last night. After we were sitting in the office for a few minutes after the reunion, the kids ran out to get some school awards to show us. The orphanage director went over to a bookcase and reached up high and gave us a goody bag. It was FILLED with pictures and letters that Alona had written us wanting her to send us. She said she had been saving them for us. They were so sweet! A picture os a house with Isabelle, Keely, Max, Jenny and David. Also many pictures where she had written, "deaiz alona. i love jenny" etc with all our names. David asked Kostya what "deaiz" means? Kostya said, "she is writing "this is"'. I even figured that one out. :) Right it as it sounds, huh?! Oh, the awards they had gotten. Alona had one for reading. She told us she likes poems. Makc had one for drawing and even won 2nd place in a school drawing contest. (That is not a surprise. He drew a lot this summer and is really very talented). They showed us their homework and school books. I think they will be fine in Math. They seem to be moving along with that and using English numbers. gotta go..bye! jenny

Wow!

I tried to think of a catchier title but that's all we can do for now. I want to give you the end of the day because it's the most exciting but I'll start at the beginning. We got up after about 4 hours of sleep (talked to kids at their bedtime which was great for them and us and then just generally couldn't sleep: hard bed, hard pillow, light in the room, thought of fire while on the fifth floor with no escape [believe me I know because Kim and I discussed possible options out of our places and didn't come up with much]). We hit the road with Anna, our facilitator and Kostya, our driver who happens to be Anna's husband. Our 3 hour road trip was actually 5. No problems just driving through little villages all along the way, and had to slow down as little old women (picture Strega Nona books from Tomie de Paolo--tons of little ladies around the villages that looked just like her). I did get the exciting experience during the 5 hour road trip of using the bathroom in the roadside facility. There is a wall in front, a door that Anna says not to close, and a hole. No seat, just a hole in some concrete or wood (I can't remember which because I was kind of taken by the picture when I looked down--ick). Thanks to the bloggers in the past who have said to take toilet paper along with you. Thanks also to Laurel and others who said to make sure you have snacks in your backpack with you. Our meal until 7:30 tonight consisted of a Slim Fast bar and pack of crackers. Thankful for those! Okay, so the important part. We go to the Inspector's office to get go ahead to go to orphanage. Anna goes in for awhile, comes out to the car where we are waiting and says the Inspector wants to ask us questions. Okay?!?! So, we go in and answer her questions. She decides since she had another American family just there who hosted (Hello Cox's :)), she wanted to make sure there was no foul play. "Why would we want these kids?" "Are we selling them?" "Are we taking them to a farm and putting them on slave labor?" etc. etc.--that's what Anna said. She even asked us what kind of church we attend because I made the comment about praying. Anna said that she doesn't think many of the people understand when Americans come to adopt because of their Christian beliefs because they don't know God in such a personal way. (Sad, huh? Guess I've seen that in America too). So we are to wait in the car until 2:30 when the prosecutor and lady from the inspector's office (I think a social worker) come to the orphanage with us and question us in front of the orphanage director and see how we interact with the kids. Okay, at this point we are starting to get a little emotional. Not all of you know, but the Cox's are a family in CA who adopted recently and had problem after problem and this prosecutor really caused some trouble. We're thinking NO WAY can this be happening but we remind ourselves and each other that we can only be totally upfront and honest and share the Truth about the kids, the hosting and why we are adopting them. So, we wait and 2:30 comes and goes. Anna goes in and gets them moving (she's one tough cookie--we don't know what she says in Ukrainian but we can tell she is tough and she tell's us she can be very tough :)). They hop in a cab and we follow behind.
So, we get in the orphanage director's office and start to sit down (social worker, assistant prosecutor, orp. dir., anna, kostya) and David says, "Bathroom." We have had to go to the bathroom for like 4 hours at this point there is no bathroom around. You just don't run into public buildings and use the restroom like we can. Anyway, Anna translates that David has to go to the bathroom. Ha!! They say okay. David asks me if I have to go. I feel ridiculous saying yes with all these people staring and this important "questioning" about to be taking place. However, I have to use the bathroom, so I say yes. We go outside the office. David is in bathroom. I'm in hallway. I turn around and the orph. dir. went to get Makc and Alona. They are standing at the other end of the hallway. At once we both start running to each other and wouldn't you just know it (Esther Bible study girlfriends, "It just so happened that Xerxes...") we stopped right in front of the doorway for all those people to view. The kids grabbed me, Alona jumped in my arms and I think we might have done a semi-scream. Then Max jumped in my arms. All this right for the viewing of these "questioniteers." I mean you couldn't have made it work so good if you took time to stage it. No telling me that God wasn't smiling at that whole scene. So then I go ahead and go to the bathroom, David runs out and has his reunion. We go in the room, and the kids can't quit talking to us. Everyone laughed (even the prosecutor dude) because David said something Alona didn't understand and Makc quickly translated for her. The orp. dir. said we didn't need a translator in the room--Makc was our translator. After they watched us love on each other, talk to each other, look at pictures on D's phone (Kee yours was the only picture we had :)), everyone was speechless. Literally! David says he saw the social worker had tears in her eyes--she was blown away. David was in the floor with the kids, and I'm trying to maintain some composure for this questioning and looking at all of them, I'm the one that finally asks, "So are there some questions?". Orp. Dir. says, "well do we have any questions we want to ask?" We're thinking NO! The prosecutor is sitting there rubbing his forehead with his hand thinking what am I going to say. So finally the prosecutor dude comes up (and you can tell he literally had to think of some bogus questions to ask) and asks David what he does and how much he makes. He then says, "Well how do you think you can support 6 children on that?" I said, "I cut coupons!" Isn't that a hoot? The translator laughed. I'm not sure if she told them or not. They didn't have any questions after that. Did God give us peace or what!! David was so enthralled with the kids, I think he was mainly speechless although he did answer the two questions with his best Russian/Ukrainian accent (some of you had the privilege of hearing that all summer). So, we go outside and play, the people disappear. We stayed there until after 6:30. The orphanage director was working on getting her part of the paperwork finished. Laurel says that's a great thing to have this step almost done. YEAH God!!!! So tomorrow we're to pick up the papers from orp. dir. at 10am, go to Notary's office, then go to Inspector's office tomorrow afternoon. Please pray the Inspector goes ahead and gets her part to us. It's possible we could have it to Kiev Thursday (Anna and Kostya just keep saying, "we'll see". I've already started saying "we'll see" they've said it so much.) Anna did say she will try her hardest, which I totally believe she will. Just so you know, I am petting Anna lots, and it is helping! ha!
Please praise the Lord for all of His Work today. In the car I was reminded of the verse Proverbs 19:21 "Many plans are in a man's heart, but the LORD's decree will prevail."
Thank you for your prayers and your comments and care of the children at home. This is so long, but a few extra-neat points:
1. Right when we found out about the prosecutor coming along with us and we're waiting in the car, Kee texts us and the kids want to talk to us. It was so special to talk to them and ask them to pray for us right as we were getting ready to see the kids here.
2. Natasha: when she came in she was a little shy (which is probably a very good thing as she has never met us). After 5 or so minutes, she started playing with my bracelet, and soon after she was hugging us and running after us, "mother" "father". Very sweet! Reminds me very much of Alona.
3. Kim doesn't have the passport in her hand, but word is it's ready and she will get tomorrow and hopefully get out of here by the end of the week. Please keep praying. She's encouraged thanks to so many emails.
4. We have a most charming place to stay--sort of like a bed and breakfast without the breakfast. It is by this cobblestone street with all kinds of restaurants and hustle and bustle. We feel SO much more comfortable here. I can't begin to explain how much better we feel. It is much smaller than Kiev and really very charming. We passed all these farms with horses plowing, families in these fields, working fields without machinery. It really was quite beautiful.
5. Bad news: we were so caught in the moment, we got no reunion pictures. Then when we were outside and thought about it, we realized we didn't ask if we could and didn't want to take any chances. *Photos tomorrow we hope! Love, Jenny

Leaving for Khelminitsky in the morning

It's 11:43 pm here. We're trying to stay semi-awake to skype with the kids at their bedtime (2:30 am this time)-Ikes! We'll have to figure something out, but if it helps the kids go to sleep with a smile on their face, it's worth it. They are doing great by all accounts, and we have lots of accounts as so many people are checking on them. Thanks and a huge thanks to our Jenn teacher, she is a Gem and a gym teacher (maybe that was supposed to be funny but I already recognize it wasn't). She's keeping the kids and doing a fabulous job!

So, we DID get the referral this evening at 5pm. Great news as not many get their referrals back the same day. If you have your appointment today and don't get your referral the same day, then you must wait until 5pm the next day. So, obviously we are very thankful for that. With a Ukrainian holiday coming up this weekend where offices will be closed on Friday and Monday, we've (or the facilitators) need to keep things moving as quickly as possible. Believe me, Igor and his team know how desperately I need to get home to my babies in KY. I told him maybe at least 10 times and even petted his arm when he told me, [insert Ukrainian accent here] "uhhh, yes, I know and I think we work to get this done quickly". The news I'm not so happy about is that Igor and his girlfriend Helen (who David thinks is quite pretty as he told Igor today AND found out she is a "celebrity") are going to Burma. OOOHH, I don't want my Igor (who I have now know for like a total of 24 hours) leaving the country. Alas, I have come to the rememberance that God is the one in control, amen?!

Kostya and his wife Anna will be picking us up at 7am for the 3 hour drive to Khelm. When there we see an inspector and then he/she allows us to go the orphanage. Finally, this is where it all gets interesting--we get to see Makc, Alona and Natasha. Yeah! Please pray for safe travels for us, for a beautiful reunion, for that paperwork to fly off the desks of these people!! Please also continue to pray for our ones at home--that they will not miss us as much as we miss them!

Thank you for reading and commenting. We LOVE the comments! It's hard to explain what it's like coming here for an adoption. Everyone has been perfectly kind, the weather is lovely, and we've had nice meals, but it is so very lonely. As you've read, we've been with our friend Kim B. much of the time. We crack ourselves up because we say so many times how lovely the weather is. We're trying to focus on the positive. So, we talk about the weather, then we laugh hysterically, then we cry for a few minutes, then we get a snack of crackers, then we wonder when we'll be home, then we start the whole process over again. The absolute funniest thing though is that we 3 sit together and read our blogs, our facebooks, our emails, and comment on them while we're together with our 2 computers.

Really, please pray for Kim. She's here by herself to finish up the adoption. They already had their court date and went home for the 10-day waiting period. She came back last Monday and is still here. She is very much afraid that if they do not get paperwork they need at 2pm tomorrow (when she's told they might get it) she could be here through the weekend into next week. She is an amazing woman. She adopted Anastasia 4 years ago from the Ukraine and started the hosting program this past summer in our area. God was working, she and her husband were willing to follow, and since God has used them to inspire so many families to adopt, including us. We love her and pray she gets home to her family this week. Hopefully tomorrow you'll be seeing pictures of Makc, Alona and Natasha on the blog. Stay tuned...love, Jenny

SDA appointment went great!!!

Good morning! It's 11:15am here in Kiev and we at Kim's appartment visiting. We got back to our appartment last night around 7:00pm after spending the afternoon and evening with Kim. On the way back to our apt. we stopped by the grocery and picked up some Coke Light (Diet Coke) and toilet tissue. The store is 2 stories with all the food and drink on the lower level and the soft lines and health/beauty on the second. You have to pay for what you get on each level. I guess they have them this way to save on land space.

Last night, we watched a reality tv show on DVD, blogged a bit, Jenny a load of laundry, and spent some time IMing friends and family. At around 11:00pm, we decided to get some sleep, but I guess our bodies weren't ready for that because we didn't sleep very well at all. We feel pretty good though not having much sleep.

I got up around 5:30am, got my shower (finnally) after having to wait 5 minutes for the hot water to make it's way up to our apt. on the 5th floor, got my Coke Light, had oatmeal and did my quite time and Experiening God bible study. Jenny got up at 7:15am and started her morning routine. (I'll not bore you with that).

At 8:30am we went down to meet Igor for our 9:00am appointment over at the SDA. We arrived plenty early and stood around outside wiating till 8:55. We went in the building, waiting on some stairs, and at 9:00 went upstairs into an office where we were introduced to Andrea. She was very nice. We were asked about our family and how we met the kids we are adoptiong. Everything was very positive and based on the expressions, pleasant. We were told what the Kids b'days are (Makc was born in Sept. of 1998, Alona was born in July on 2000, and Natasha was born in Sept. of 2002). We were told the birthdates of their mother (1978) and father (1980). We were then told that everthing was in order and that they (SDA) would work hard to get the paperwork completed by late afternoon (WHOO HOO!). If all goes well, we will go back to the SDA this afternoon to get the referral!

Above are pictures from this morning. Enjoy. We'll be back online later... going to walk around with Kim and grab some lunch. It's another beautiful day here!

David

We've survived a whole 24 hours in Kiev

Not only have we survived, but we've thrived (that's for you, Tammy :))! We spent the day with Kim. Actually David says we didn't spend the whole day because I didn't wake up until 11!:) Igor, the head facilitator guy picked us up and took us to Kim's. He was really nice. He seems like a very capable man. We hung out at her apartment for a lot of the day. Then went on a walk. Even found a nice park with lots of tulip trees. There was a playground there with many children. One interesting thing: it was like 70 degrees today and really sunny but the children were dressed in winter clothes with tights and jackets and even a few with toboggans! Other difference was lots of people walking around with big beer bottles and wine. We ate at a really pretty and yummy Italian restaurant. The price was really reasonable too! It means SO much having Kim here for a few days. It just helps the day go by quick. Otherwise, we've heard and can already imagine the days get long and lonely. BTW, thanks for the comments and emails--they help ALOT!
Tomorrow morning at 9am our time (2am Monday morning Eastern time) we have our SDA appoiment. Igor will take us and he said it should all go well and be done by 9:30. We hope to have the referral they will give from this appt Monday evening. If that's the case, we'll head out of Kiev Tuesday morning and head to the region where the kids are. We will be there for the remainder of the time. We have to leave Kim, but hopefully (and please pray for her as she is here by herself) that she will not be here very much longer! Love you all! Jenny & David

Sunday, the Lord's Day! 4/26

Good Morning, or good night Cinci time! This time difference is wierd. I've done some traveling, but always west where I was at an earlier time zone. Being ahead of those at home sort of makes me fell like I'm in the future. Like I said, wierd for me. I didn't sleep much on the plane over, so I laid down around 10:00pm last night and went right to sleep. Jenny went to bed around mid-night. I woke up around 6:30 and knew that was way to early, rolled over and went back to sleep until 9:30ish. Jenny is still asleep! Kim spoke to Igor, our Team leader last night and he told her he would call early and let us know what time we would meet today. Kim also told us that early would be around 11:00am. I guess she knows, cause he hasn't called yet and I'm glad cause Jenny is still asleep.

We are so glad to have Kim here to help us get settled in! After we meet Igor, we are planning on spending the day with her and Sasha, the Botto's new family member. It will make time go much faster being able to get out and about. The weather here is very nice!! Our apartment is clean and comfortable. Well, the bed isn't exactly comfortable, but like I told myself last night...it's better than the floor!

If you know me very well, I don't read much and I don't journal even less. Before I left, I challanged myself to do more of both. So on the plane ride, after finishing watching a movie, I opened a book called Reckless Faith that Jenny started reading and in the introduction, I found these verses that spoke to me.
Let your light shine before men in such a way that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father who is in heaven. Matt. 5:16 NASB
In the same way, anyone who holds on to life just as it is, destroys that life. But if you let it go, reckless in your love, you'll have iy forever, real and eternal. John 12:25 MSG

My prayer today is ... Father help me and encourage me to be a light for you and love you recklessly! Amen.

Today is the Lord's Day, and I am going to try and take every opportunity to worship Him. I woke up this morning and in my first prayers, I praised Him for who He is! I can't wait to see what he has in store for me today.

Thank you all for your prayers and following our journey to resue Natasha, Alona, and Makc. Please don't be afraid to post a comment. We love hearing from you!

Blessings,

David

We're in Kiev.

Well our first apartment guests just left. We hosted Kim and her new daughter Sashsa Botto! Actually we weren't such great hosts as they brought us pizza, toilet paper, cups and even a little chocolate for our bed pillows! Oh, I can't tell you how great it was to have them here. We were able to chat about life here (hoping it will be quick), cry a little and laugh a lot. Our driver, whose wife will be our facilitator was very nice. After a 17 hour flight, we were tired and a little overwhelmed, so hopefully we'll sleep well tonight. We talked to the kids (in KY) over Skype and actually got to see their beautiful faces. We love you three and miss you already!! Know we're sleeping under the same stars tonight (even though on different time zones). Kim and our head-dude facilitator guy are planning our day tomorrow. Not sure what it will be, but I can guarantee you we are happy to have them looking after us and Kim entertaining us. The work starts Monday. We'll have our SDA appt and then have to wait until evening to hopefully get our referral. Once we have the referral, we can travel to Khelmenitsky, the region where the kids are. We hope to be able to see them on Tuesday.

We're here!

Well not exactly here as in Ukraine, but we are here at Cinci airport. Thank you for all the prayers, well wishes, snacks, notes (which I'm saving for the airplane), dvds (Sarah & Bryan). A big shout-out to Sam for driving us to the airport and seeking to make it as pleasant as possible. We know so many of you were praying for us this morning. The kids gave us a big hug and headed to school with a smile on their face. I thought of the verse about carrying one another's burdens. I know many of you said you had on your heart to pray for the kids at home and the goodbye and it was obvious that you were carrying our burdens for us and the kids. Thank you for your faithful prayer!! Please continue to pray for strength, peace and joy for all of us. For those many who are loving on, caring for, and protecting our little ones at home, it means more than you could ever know. Thank you! Love, Jenny & David

Only 27 hours until we hit Cinci Aiport for Kiev

Does AAAACCKK properly describe the emotions right now?! :) Actually, everything is coming together, the kids are doing great with us leaving (Max is actually excited for us to go. HHMM...what does that mean?!), and God is giving me peace moment by moment the way it was intended.
I actually woke up with butterflies in my stomach. I was praying and the phone rings at like 6 this morning. It's Mark Botto whose wife is over in the Ukraine right now finishing up their adoption of a 16-yr-old gal. They are a great couple and Mark is so nice. He just wanted me to know that Kim is going to have to stay through the weekend, so the good news is that she will be there to greet us when we get to Kiev. What a blessing! To travel 17 hours and be greeted by a familiar face from KY??!! It's just too much. Thank you God! So, Kim is going to help us exchange money, get settled in, take us to a good restaurant, even maybe shop on Sunday.
Our appointment is Monday morning at 9am. Ukraine is 7 hours ahead of us on Eastern time. So, if you're up praying on Monday morning at 2am, we'd love for you to pray for our appointment :)! Until then, please join us in thanking the Lord for being so close to us (to us all) and for providing all we need and more. Please pray for tomorrow morning as we say goodbye to our babies here for a little while. Love, Jenny

Not a lot to tell,

but we do have our plane tickets. We are officially headed to the Ukraine on Friday, April 24th. Wow! God is continuing to take care of every single detail. Our van sold on Friday, so now we are in the search for a vehicle for 8. Our kids here are excited that their gym teacher is going to be staying with them and caring for them while we're gone. On her own, our oldest daughter, sweet Keely, is planning how take care of her sister and brother and the house while we're gone. Please pray that I won't have to be gone long. I want to be excited about the trip, but am letting fear of being away from my kids for ??? weeks, take away from this praise of the court date. Please also pray for our kids in the Ukraine. I called to tell them this week that we had a date and would be there soon. They were in tears because a month seems like forever to them. They kept asking, "but what is the date that we will be home with you in America?" Makc did tell me 2 or 3 times that he "would wait for us." Such the little man. I can't wait to get him home so that he can be a little boy!
We treasure your prayers and support. Love, Jenny