2010 Greenup Family Year in Review

2010 was an amazing year, God has provided and blessed in magnificent ways.  

(There is a 12 minutes video below if you want to watch our year in review)

January started off excitingly with the birth of Camille on the 20^th. 5 weeks later, Heidi’s sister Julie gave birth to her first son, Daniel.  It’s fun to be able to have the cousins growing up together and being so close in age.

 

Other than celebrating Olivia’s 2^nd birthday in March, the family laid low for the next few months as we adjusted to the new baby.  Finally, come July we decided that it was time to start back up the adoption process that began way back in Dec. 2008.  Along with that came the news that we'd be making two trips to complete the our adoption in early 2011. Thus, we still had about $9,500 needed to finalization our adoption.

We celebrated our 5^th wedding anniversary on July 30^th and went on a trip to Glacier National Park and Shelby Montana to visit Grandma Emily Greenup until we returned and kicked it into fundraising high gear.

We made plans for a HUGE garage sale. This consisted of Dustin making over 20 or 30 trips to people’s houses to pick up their unwanted, cleaned-out closet items and bringing them back to the house for Heidi to clean and organize as rooms began to fill.  The day before the biggest garage sale of our lives, the baby’s room was un-enterable and full of glass and breakable items; the living room was packed with books and clothes; our bedroom was full of kids toys, the hallways full of stuffed animals and our garage full of everything from lamps and yoga balls, to toddler race car beds and TV’s of all sizes.  We even had to borrow our neighbor’s garage because we couldn’t fit everything!  We praise God for all the donations that came in and for the body of Christ who helped us move everything over to Dustin’s office building the night before.  With all the help and much prayer, we raised close to $5, 400 for our adoption!

August brought the birth of another cousin- Dustin’s sister Connie giving birth to Sonora!  And the end of the month we spent celebrating Heidi’s parent’s 40^th wedding anniversary up at Deer Lake.  September 1^st Ezra turned four and big news came only a month later on Heidi’s birthday- a referral of a 3 month old baby boy named Musse, or ‘Moses.’  We accepted the referral and in December made travel plans for our January 28, 2011 Ethiopian court hearing appointment. 

As we reflect on the last year, we see so much of God’s goodness and perfect timing.  We hope to bring home Musse in early March 2011 and will probably be staying home the rest of the year to get him adjusted to new life with our family.  Thank you to so many of you who helped us financially, gave your time or who kept us in your prayers.  Many blessings to you and your families in the coming year!