Race Results and Racing through our Thoughts

What great news to post today on our blog!  Bryan and I raced the 5k and half marathon trail race for the Owls Roost Rumble on April 28th.  We raised a total of $1600 for the Good Samaritans Childrens Home.  Our goal was $2500, but we are so proud of what you all chipped in with your hearts, prayers and wallets to get us this much!  $1600 will feed and clothe a lot of children for months in Uganda.  I was very excited to send this money through our agency to the orphanage.  Thank you to the following families and people who donated:
The Brays, Newcombs, Hobbs, Comptons, Dudas, Barnes, Smiths, Hills, Klinchuchs, Lowders, JT, Dad, Curtis, Cocks, Wells, Munsons, Tippets, Leppos, Beckers, Goliszeks, LeVerings, Phares and Caseys. 

We are still waiting for our referral and to know who God reveals to us who our daughter is and we continue to pray for her safety, love and comfort as we wait.  The boys asked us if we felt excited and stressed when we waited for their referrals too?  Of course!  They are excited and anxious to know who their sister is too.  This is not the hardest part of an adoption, but definitely an anxious part.  Every time my phone rings or I hear the 'ding' of an email coming in, I wonder "Is this it?  Maybe it's our agency!" Then it's not and I say "Okay, it always happens when you are not thinking it's going to happen."  Which is true, very true.  When both of our boys referrals came in, I had no idea in that moment and was not expecting it.  Brayan's came at the end of a very long work day in the office and I almost didn't take the call from my desk because I just wanted to go home.  What a wonderful surprise when I answered it and my oldest child was "born" on April 4th 2005. By "born" I mean not physically being born from their mothers womb, but God's revealing of who He chose our child to be. Joey's came after a long day of traveling from Mobile, AL back to Caldwell, ID on planes with a 20 month old.  We got home and I was so exhausted and Brayan was so grumpy.  I turned on my computer and there was the email at 6:00 that night, my second child was "born" on October 4th 2006.  Both of those days are so clearly ingrained in my head that I can recall the smallest of little things from that day, like even what I was wearing. 

Our daughters referral cannot come soon enough some days, but Bryan and I continue to remind ourselves that she will come at God's timing which is always the perfect time. 

Peace and Love to you all!! 

Bryan and Bridgette