Day 26: Rain, rain, GO AWAY!

Another rainy and gray day in South Africa today.  Not complaining, just informing -it was about 60 today.  From what we heard from my parents, it is about the same temperature at home today!  We were excited to head to church this morning!  New Creation has been an amazing church home away from home.  Pastor Grant (and SO many others) have been so welcoming - it is the true definition of a church family.  As I mentioned previously, the radio stations don't play Christmas music here, so singing some Christmas songs in church was a great way to get us into the Christmas spirit!!  Also, each week at church we meet new people who tell us what an amazing child Nicolas is or how they know who we are from seeing the book we sent him or they share stories of their experiences with him.  It's so cool to hear how many lives he has touched already in his short life.  God has got some big plans for this boy, I can see it already!

After church, we headed back to have lunch.  I had hoped the sky would clear up so that we could get outside, but no such luck.  We flew Nicolas around on our knees (we have to alternate as it gets tiring - a great workout though!), the boys played motorbikes on the ipod, and we measured Nicolas' feet and ordered him some snow boots so that he is geared up to hit the snow when we get home!  We also were able to skype again this afternoon, this time with my parents and my niece Sophia.  Skype has been such a blessing to keep us connected to our family and friends.  I can't imagine how isolated we would feel without it!

Homework, dinner, ice cream, and a movie rounded out our evening,  Tomorrow we are going to Nicolas' school to meet his teachers and hopefully headed to Home Affairs for paperwork step 1.  Please keep us in your prayers that our paperwork process will go as planned!

Here are a few more pictures:

This is Nicolas posing from Thanksgiving before we went to court.  Fancy lad!

Air time with Dad!

Snuggling with Bella (One of Stefan's dogs - our Penel away from home!)

Yup.  I get to experience this every day :)

Good night everyone :)

The Longstreets