My little swim buddy!

The man in his fish shirt

Joe's

Out to dinner with the GLA gang.
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Gus

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Last

But not least. Bin #K-9. Gus is heading back to Haiti!
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Gus made the trip to Colorado too!

Almost

The back of the second container! We're almost full.
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Here is our first container. We're one third full after 2 hours. Much more to go!
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Loading... Meeting some great people!

Peyton (Allison's friend!), Holli (Dixie's daughter-in-law), Naomi & Jeffry (Jill was sitting next to Naomi waiting in Miami & Jeffry was one of her babies in December!)  And Peyton again!

Nice view!

Pikes Peak in a wintery Colorado wonderland. The view from Rutherfords back deck.
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Snow in Colorado

Staying at Adam and Kristie's in Peyton tonight. We ended up getting 3 inches of snow this evening! Should be an interesting day tomorrow.
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Foreman Steve

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Joe and John the volunteer

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GLA store house

All of the supplies that arrived the last 2 days! We'll be loading at least 2 large shipping containers in the next 2 days.
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Ready and rollin' again

Heading out again to help GLA in Colorado. John Bickel is leading a team to load shipping containers bound for GLA in Haiti. Jill dropped me at the airport at 4:30am and i will be holing down things on the home front. I feel honored to be asked to help out with this very important task. These are all of our donation dollars going directly where they are needed most. More to come...
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Snoozin'

With his monster PJ's on.
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Bath Time

He's lovin' time in the bath. This is his very favorite time of the day.
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Time together

What a great kid!
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Pudding

Yummmmmm!
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Photo Catch Up: Joe's Camera in Haiti

At LAX

Coming home!
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Thank You Larry King

We truly believe Larry King made a difference for the kids of God's Littlest Angels. Early on, he helped us get the message out about GLA and getting the kids home after the earthquake in Haiti. He cared enough to follow the story and we can't thank him enough...

Thanks also to Rosy who helped get us through the past 10 days... she is much more than a producer... She is a friend.

We need to continue to support God's Littlest Angels (www.glahaiti.org) as they have much more to come. They will soon be receiving new babies and need our prayer and support. There are so many children who need care... so many. We can't take this lightly... collectively we can make a difference. And pray for the GLA children with families in Canada and France - that the kids get to go home.

We want to say thank-you to Allison, who got Samuel taken care of tonight! We were down to only dirty clothes - and she SAVED THE DAY by dropping off outfits at the hotel for him. Thank you so very much Al... you are so very special to us.

Samuel is all we had hoped... he is an incredible kid and we have been blessed for sure.

Getting Ready

To go on air with Larry King!
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Feeding Sam

Fish time!
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Wow a link from KGW!

I'm forever reading this website, now I'm on it!

For the whole story you should see this blog too.

www.wilkinsadoption.blogspot.com
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Thank-You - seems so inadequate

We are working through our emotion, enjoying watching Samuel sleep…  More to come for certain!

But we wanted to take just a moment to say THANK YOU to each of you for your support.  People are showing AMAZING support, and we are truly humbled by what is happening around us. 

Thanks to those who have played a role in this journey whether that be with prayer, love, donations, email and blog comments, emails or taking care of things for us back home.  We feel your love and are feeling blessed.  We are thanking God for everything he is doing around us…

Dixie spoke to the parents this morning – will try to get video and/or some words to share…  That woman is amazing.  These kids are special kids…

…and they are HOME.

Please pray though, as they are not yet US citizens… We will probably have to re-adopt them in the US and are praying this doesn’t mean starting completely over with the process/fees, etc…   We are concerned as we aren't coming out of the country like most situations - many of us don't have a lot of the documents we would have in the "normal process."  But hopefully it will be a non-issue for all of us.

http://www.oregonlive.com/news/index.ssf/2010/01/orphans_no_more_haitian_childr.html

http://www.cnn.com/CNN/Programs/larry.king.live/

I have my angel now!

Right now Samuel is taking a nap next to Jill in our hotel. I owe this moment to everyone who prayed so hard for this to happen.

Thank you also to Kimberly and Bruce who traveled along and documentented my journey.
http://www.oregonlive.com/
Time to take a nap myself.

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Amazing!

We Got Him!

By the Way... (Jill here)

I still have not seen Joe! I am dying here... (he is with the kids.)

They are calling 4 at a time...

The suspense is killing me!
This is so cool to be with all the parents... We are cheering for each other as names are called.

Dixie Just Came In To Talk!

We are about to see them!!! :-)

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On the bus!
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6am Update

Quote from Joe:

"More like 6:30 or 7am. Man, I'm wiped out."

A very long wait

Most of the kids are done, about 28 more. Ugh!
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