We Had a Good Visit With Anna This Morning

Good morning everyone, We visited Anna today. She is doing great. She wanted to hold my hand when Chris took her for little walk. The sun is shinning this morning. It has been cold but today the sun came out so we got to spend more time with her today. (T)went to visit her family for Jan 1 for few days and will back on Tuesday. I have a cold again. We have moved to our other apptment friday. So we can make phone calls to family back home with a ukraine phone card. We had tried out AT&T we can not get it to work with our phone here. Please keep praying for us that we will stay healthy. Untill we get home with Anna. I will not be fun being sick and traviling with a child. I am takening my meds. We have meet some family here from USA I hope we can stay in touch with them when we get back home. They helpped us out one night at the other internet. A guy came up to chris and asked for money for his mom.Because she was going to have her leg taken off at the knee. Then he kept droping the money when chris said he could not do it. Chris said that he would pray for her and that was it. Other than everyone has been help us. Also too. Chris and the (T)went to on of the store to by water and other stuff. We they forgot to put the water on the tickeit. and the gaurd seen it. Then put the water back. Instead of got to line to pay for it. because it was long line. Bu they forgot to ring it up. They check things close on this stuff. I got to for now. Talk with ya later. More new later on. Terry Thanks again for your help to put thing on the websit. Love everyone and miss you all. And Missing Nicholas

Hello Everyone

Hello Everyone,we are all doing fine. Anna is warming up to us everytime we see her. We visited Anna's village, and took some pictures. We miss everyone and will be glad to get home. Everyone take care and pray for us.

Hello , We are doing fine.

I have gotten back on again. I am happy about this. I might try and put picture on later on to see if I can do it. I hope I can. Thanks Great for the information on it. I'll try it. We are moving again to another place on Saturday. It will be quieter there and not a lot car horns going off and alarms. I think it will be better for Anna too where she can go sleep at night. Gina sorry I called you at 5:00 in the morning. Sometime that's about the only time we can do it. I even called my dad and woke him up. Anna is doing fine. I can't wait to get her home where we can start bonding more with here. Right now we are doing outside with her and she is all covered up. And she has a hard time with walking around. One day she fell on us about 3 time on us. And they gave here gloves to wear, she kept knocking them off. Then we had to put them back on her before we took her back in and she did not like it at all. I had to say da da. Please keep praying for us for a safe trip and time with Anna. Also for our other families too that is with us. One family just found out about their court date. Please pray for them that it will go great for them. Terri

Hello everyone. Sorry about the not posting.

Hey guys, We have had a hard time trying to post on this blogger this week. I have tried for about 3 days no luck untill now. It is cold here today and light rain. Yesterday we had sun and it was so nice to have it. I tell ya what my legs and back has been hurtting from all this walking around here and going up and down the stairs. I am not use to this at all. I can tell that I am out of shap from all of this walking and going up and down stairs. One day we went a church in Odssa. We meet 3 missionaries while there. Anna is doing pretty good. I think she is warming up to us everyday. We did not get to see her today. They said no visit. They had someone checking on the place and paperwork is what it sound like. We are moving again to another appterment. That is less exspenve on Saturday. But it is nice to like what we have. But no washer. We got use to the washer in the other place. They have someone else that can pay more for the place than what we can. We might have a phone that we can use too at the place where we are moving too. I hope. I miss calling my family and Nicholas. Sorry about any typos. This key boards are diffenter a little bite. Adopt3 please you can email me at terri88diehl@yahoo.com or terri_diehl@hotmail.com Yes we are at baby house 3 I am glad that I got on to post on this today. I was getting made about this where I could not post on it. I have a question for anyone how do you do pictures on the blog here? Thanks I better be going for now. I hope everyone is doing fine. I am sorry about this being long. But as long as I was on I don't know if I can get back on or not. We shall see nextime. Take care. hope to see everyone soon. MerryChristmas and Happy New Year. Love everyone.

Just visted with Anna this afternoon.

Hi everyone. We just got back from seeing Anna this afternoon. It was a short vist,when we got there they said it was almost bath time for her. So we only had about 45 mint. to visit. It went will tonight. We took some new toys and some cookies and yogurt. She liked that every much. We visit a church this morning to that was different from ours. We are in a different place now staying and it is every nice. I like it a lot. There is more room,clean and we can fix our on meals. We also can wash our cloths. I guess I better let everyone go for now. I need to check emails. Terri Thanks for the thing you did for me the other day. You know what I am talking about. We will try and post more later on. Love you guys and hope to see everyone soon with Anna.

Just GOT NEWS ON COURT DATE WHILE HERE AT THE INETERNET.

Our court date is Dec 19. Please pray for us that every thing will goes ok. Please. (T) Just came in and told us just now. This is great news. (T) Is really great with this adoption work.

Hello Everyone

Hello , We are doing fine. I hope everyone is doing great. We have seen Anna today. We took her some apple juice she did not like it at all. She fell a slep in my arms today. Also yesterday she kept saying GA and found out it ment like the ladies in the baby house. She was calling for them. I had gotten sick from something I ate. I am feeling better. Now (t) has it now. Also we are moving in the morning from the aprment that we have now to a better one. I guess I better be going for now. I need to check emails. We will post more later on. Love you all and Miss ya.

Hello everyone. We have meet our daughter.

We went to SDA and they showed us 3boys we said no to them there were some stuff wrong with them. Then they showed us two girls. The 2nd girl they showed was pretty will healthly. Just crosed eye. She is 2 years old and here name is Anna and we are going to go with that and have it as Anna Elizabeth Diehl. She has blone hair kind of wavie and blue eyes. She is small. She is a sweet heart. We are here in Odssa. I got sick Thursday morninging. I hope I feel better by friday. We road a train to Odssa this was my first time doing a sleeper car. It took about 12 hours by train from Keivy. I just wanted to post some information. Please keep us in your all prayers. We had one place to stay and we found another one for the rest of the time while here. Tell you more on that later. I hope every thing is going ok back home with everyone. Love all and hope to see you soon. take care everyone.

We are here in Kyiv

Good morning from Kyiv..it is fairly warm, in the mid 40's and cloudy. It was dark when we landed yesterday at 4:30 in the afternoon. The daylight is short, basically from 8 to 4pm. All of the flights were great, no problems and we got all of our bags. We met another couple on the way to Russia to get two boys, age 7 & 9. Also our flight attendent adopted and had two kids from Norway. Then we ran into another couple on teh way to Kyiv adopting from Ukraine. It always amazes me that we "bump"into so may adopters along the way. We finally got some sleep, except we had some excitement with the electricity last night. Our plugs went out and we had fun trying to find the fuse. We were getting Terri's sleep apnia machine going when the fuse blew. It was in the hallway, but locked. Luckily Gayla had a key and we got it going again, and Terri's machine works fine. The apartment is wonderful and very comfortable. We are on the 6th floor and unfortuately the elevator was kaput. For those of you that know us well, we just pack a few things, so it was not much fun lugging everything but the kitchen sink up six flights of steps. Ha ha, got my workout for the night!! Today we are tagging along with the other two families that have appts today. They changed our times, the others go at 2 and 4 today and we go at 12:00 tomorrow. Actually I think they just told us worng yesterday. That is better for us anyway! The Stewarts and Elberts will know who their children are in a matter of hours and will prbably travel later today or tomorrow to meet them, then it is our turn. Maryjane and Gina, thanks for watching Nicholas over the weekend. Let us know how it went. Nicholas, we miss you every minute of the day. We have shown your picture to everyone here. Be good for Auntie Oam and all, and we will let you know about baby sister or baby brother soon. Chris & Terri

We are here in Kyiv

Good morning from Kyiv..it is fairly warm, in the mid 40's and cloudy. It was dark when we landed yesterday at 4:30 in the afternoon. The daylight is short, basically from 8 to 4pm. All of the flights were great, no problems and we got all of our bags. We met another couple on the way to Russia to get two boys, age 7 & 9. Also our flight attendent adopted and had two kids from Norway. Then we ran into another couple on teh way to Kyiv adopting from Ukraine. It always amazes me that we "bump"into so may adopters along the way. We finally got some sleep, except we had some excitement with the electricity last night. Our plugs went out and we had fun trying to find the fuse. We were getting Terri's sleep apnia machine going when the fuse blew. It was in the hallway, but locked. Luckily Gayla had a key and we got it going again, and Terri's machine works fine. The apartment is wonderful and very comfortable. We are on the 6th floor and unfortuately the elevator was kaput. For those of you that know us well, we just pack a few things, so it was not much fun lugging everything but the kitchen sink up six flights of steps. Ha ha, got my workout for the night!! Today we are tagging along with the other two families that have appts today. They changed our times, the others go at 2 and 4 today and we go at 12:00 tomorrow. Actually I think they just told us worng yesterday. That is better for us anyway! The Stewarts and Elberts will know who their children are in a matter of hours and will prbably travel later today or tomorrow to meet them, then it is our turn. Maryjane and Gina, thanks for watching Nicholas over the weekend. Let us know how it went. Nicholas, we miss you every minute of the day. We have shown your picture to everyone here. Be good for Auntie Oam and all, and we will let you know about baby sister or baby brother soon. Chris & Terri

Last day before we Fly out.

We are trying to get things packed the last minute stuff. I made some pies for the Dr. Office yesterday. Chris took Nicholas to MCD this morning to eat and play. I am not feeling too. I doing little better. Like I said in the last post. I think is hiting right now. I typed up all the stuff for my sister for bus list , numbers and who and help pick him up off the bus and that good stuff. What is going on at school. Nicholas has a Christmas play on Dec 14th and we will miss that this year. yeah I went to bed earl last night because I was feeling to good. Thats not like me to do that. Sometime I stay up tell 1:00 at night. I think we are going to dry run on the packing again make sure we have everything. And We may go out and eat tonight. So Saturday is the big day for us to fly out.

It is hiting is right now.

Good morning everyone, It is snowing here this morning. Hopefully it will be gone by Saturday and it will be nice so there wont be any delays. I think it is all skin in right now. I am overwhilming with all of this right now. I went got some of the money that we need for our shoping. Then worked on the photos for the trip last night. I think all of this is starting to sit in I am not really feeling to good right now. I hope I feel better be for we fly out on Saturday. I am going to try and clothes and towels wash up today. Were I wont have to do that Friday at the last mints. When Nicholas get on the bus then I am going to laydown and try and rest some to see if that will help me. Then I am going to try and make some pies for a someone. Were we go out to at out so Nicholas can give it to her for Christmas. This lady is so nice to him. I have started to doing this for him to do.

We have are bags packed most of them.

We got our bags pack with the carry on and the check on. Now I have to wait tell Friday to pack my Biapap Machine. I will probably do that one Friday afternoon and not use it that night. Until we get there on Sunday night. I just hope I can find the water for it while we are there. Also I am working on the the family Photos to take with us. We had one for Nicholas last time. But we can't find it so I had to redo it all over again.

Five More Days

Good morning everyone, I hope everyone had a great weeked. We have been trying to pack. We did not go to Church Sunday morning do trying to pack and also have Chris' Mom and Dad and My Dad and Neice over for dinner. Chris Mom and Dad had a Birthday. So we did it together. We have to re do our packing some today. I hope that we can get it down under 50lbs. My mine was about 40 something Chris was over 50.