We are home and adjusting well!! I will admit it is hard for me to not be going 100 miles per hour, but through jet lag, nine hour time change,the adjustment of having a new baby in the house, and the adjustment of the new baby in the house to us, God is showing me I MUST slow down! So, I am trying to listen and soak in every precious moment with our new son! He is absolutely, wonderfully perfect!!! He is our little brown sugar (his Aunt Susie's name for him...which I LOVE)!!
I have over 1000 pictures from our trip to pick up Samuel (Yacob) Jacob Koceich! I plan on doing a daily journal entry for each day of our trip, but for now, I just couldn't wait any longer to share some of my favorites. You will probably see these again in later posts. Just a few for today...more to come!!!

one of the many shepherd boys we saw on our day trip out of the city

sorting grain

one of the many PRECIOUS children we saw over the week and a half we were there

gorgeous green water at the "Portuguese Bridge"

refreshing...



loads of eucalyptus branches are carried down the mountain by these amazing women

one of my favorite shots from the whole trip!

coffee beans being roasted at a traditional coffee ceremony


incense being burned at the coffee ceremony
