Pleasant Surprise...

Hi everyone,

As I was going through some of the hundreds of data CD's and DVD's that populate my workspace at home, I found a DVD that had a backup of all the pictures we took while Henok was here for his first trip to America!

I don't even remember making a backup of these pictures, but thank God I did. We were sure that these memories were lost forever because of our computers that were stolen back in March.
We are so grateful to God that we have these pictures back, and very happy! Once again, all praise and glory to our Father and God!

Henok just finished up his first season of Soccer. They did really well. Henok scored 5 goals in the last 3 games and we were very proud and excited for him! He is looking forward to the next season already, and Renee and I are looking forward to some nice rest from the 4 nights a week soccer schedule we were one for the last 2 months... ;)

Otherwise, all is well and we are doing good. We had our first post-placement meeting about 2 weeks and that went well... Henok is growing at a very good rate. He's up to 75 lbs, and plans on consuming mass quantities of Hamburgers this Summer so he can be even bigger for the Fall soccer league... ;)

Well, I'll wrap it up for now and say goodbye.

In His Service,

Matthew