Dear Friends and Family, After a year of unemployment, and applying for almost 500 jobs, Eric finally God a job offer from the only job he didn’t apply for. The same day we decided to take the job, someone from facebook con- tacted us saying they knew someone who would be interested in renting our house if we were going to rent it. Two days later, they signed the lease. One week later, Eric was in Fort Collins, Colorado renting us a house. It was the only house that wasn’t leased out by the time he flew here to check it out. One week after that, we were in a U-haul moving all 8 of us and our dog across country. When God’s timing comes, everything moves fast and the de- tails fall into place. Our emotions about moving to a place where we knew no one have been slower to fall into place. Every- one keeps asking if we’re “settled”. To be honest, I don’t think we’ll ever be “settled” or are built to be “settled”. Our real home is in Heaven and so everywhere we move on Earth is just a temporary dwelling place. In a sense, we have our tent stakes in place and bags packed as we make our temporary home here in preparation for what is next for us, an eternal home. The Change The Change December 2010 It’s been two years since we’ve sent out a letter detailing our crazy lives! In July, Eric was laid off from his Engineering job. In August 2009, Heather graduated with her Master’s in Multicultural Education and two weeks later they were flying to Ethiopia to meet their new children for the first time. In September, we were told that our Ethiopian daughter Kiya had a positive chest X-ray for Tuberculosis and that we would not be able to bring her back in October as planned. They told us she would have to stay in Ethiopia for 6 months under directly ob- served treatment until she could be released for travel. We began our prayers for a mira- cle! Two days before we were set to travel, the Center for Disease Control changed their guidelines regarding children under 10 who are immigrating with Tuberculosis, allowing them to travel. The miracle we had prayed for happened and on October 9th, 2010 we flew to Ethiopia again, this time to bring back our two new children. We were so happy to have our new big family. The kids have embraced the two new children as if they had always been a part of our family. In February 2010, Eric was asked to go to Haiti in response to the Earthquake as part of a disaster relief team. He spent 2 weeks designing Internally Displaced Peo- ple’s camps, installing water treatment pumps and passing out food and tarps to those who had lost their homes. It was dev- astating to witness the level of destruction to the country and the events Eric witnessed on that trip have forever changed him. (see more in Eric’s section). March, April , May and June seemed to fly by. Kaiyin turned 1, Eric and I celebrated our 13th wedding anniversary and Anzo turned 9. Then in July, Eric got a job in Fort Collins, Colorado and we moved into our new house on July 19th. We’ve jumped right into our new com- munity, taking lots of bike rides on the amaz- ing bike trails and plugging into a new church. Heather started homeschooling the kids again in August and soccer season stated right after that. Eric’s new company is full of great people to work with and the main bosses are Christians. In November, our 18 year old nephew Nic decided to move out to Colorado and live with us. He found a great job and his addi- tion to our family has made it a joyous 9 peo- ple! Even for us, this has been a major year of change, two new kids, 1 new job, new state, new house, new car (4 x 4 for snow), new roommate (Nic), new church and new friends, but we serve the same God who is the same, yesterday, today and forever. Fort Collins, CO Faithful Adventure Pillow heads Ice skating Our new Address is: 2230 Apache Ct. Fort Collins, CO 80525