It's a Girl!

We are excited to share the news of our baby girl!
Name: Almaze means "diamond" and is pronounced "All-Mahz" - Mahz sounds like "pause"
Birthdate: November 28, 2006
Birthplace: Born in the town of Mudulla, Ethiopia which is in the Southwest region of the country.
Background information: As with Alex, we will keep Almaze's background information private until the appropriate time to tell her. She can then decide how she wants to share this information.
Travel plans: We'll update the blog as our travel plans come together. We hope to travel by the end of June or beginning of July.

For those who have followed our adoption journey, you may remember that we have been sponsoring an Ethiopian girl who lives in the town of Asela. The name of our new little girl may sound familiar to you because it is the same as the girl we sponsor. We've really grown to like this name over the past few years and were already strongly considering this name for our new baby girl. It was pretty amazing to us that the baby God had chosen for us already has the given name Almaze!

Please join us in thanking God for another tremendous blessing and praying for the health and safety of baby Almaze.