Our Journey of Love

“Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.”  ~Martin Luther King Jr., I Have a Dream Speech

We have heard it over and over again, it is an incredible site to see your partner in the role as a parent. We have been together for a...

  Melkam Beaal "Happy Holidays" from our family to yours!   We were lucky to celebrate Gena, Ethiopian Christmas, again ...

Has it really already been two years since we saw our girl's beautiful face for the first time?! Words can't articulate how de...

Melkam Addis Amet (Happy New Year) Enkutatash is the Ethiopian New Year, celebrated on September 11th, therefore it is a very im...

Since discovering EOR a few years ago we instantly fell in love with this organization! We were inspired by their mission, their determina...

May 7th, 2011: The day Mawerdi became a US Citizen May 8th, 2011: Mawerdi arrived home in Oregon May 8th, 2012: Celebrating a ...

We are in disbelief, we had our 3rd and FINAL Post Placement interview with our adoption social worker! This is the LAST REPORT provided t...

On this day we truly became a Forever Family in our eyes. Although we had court on the 17th, March 19th was the day we were given the opport...

When we started Mawerdi's adoption process we bought her the American Girl Doll, Saba , which also contained a book "Saba" wr...