Welcome To the Brown Family Blog

Hello All! This is the Brown family blog! Andrew, Ethan and I are doing great and have some exciting news! We are adopting a beautiful 4 -year-old little girl from Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. We are so excited and can hardly wait for her to be home with us in Texas! We accepted her into our family on June 14th and then left for Africa the next week to meet her. We have named her Lila Grace and and had an amazing stay in Africa getting to know our little girl. It looks like we will be able to travel back to Africa and bring her home around the 1st week in November. Our court date in Addis Ababa is set for October 7th, so please pray that we pass court the first time. Ethan is so excited about being a big brother and is counting down the days until her arrival.

Ethan is now in 3rd grade at Mossman Elementary and loves his new school. He currently enjoys piano and tennis lessons and is currently quite a little fisherman....he is teaching us a thing or two with the rod and reel! :)

Andrew is keeping busy with his business and still flying as a Captain for Atlantic Southeast Airlines. He got his 737 type rating and is hoping Southwest Airlines will start hiring soon. He still loves landscaping the yard and tries to find time to go mountian biking with the guys.

I am currently teaching a 3rd grade class until our little one arrives in November. I love teaching at my new school and have a great class. Ethan, Andrew and the three dogs are keeping me very busy.

We are all so excited about Lila's arrival. We cant wait for her to get here and are getting things ready for her journey to Texas. I will keep you posted on our family news and be posting at least once a week.

God Bless,
The Browns

Our Prayer Requests:
1.) Pray that Lila has a sense of peace in her heart that her mommy and daddy are coming soon.
2.) Please pray taht we pass court in Addis the 1st time on October 7th.

Father to the fatherless, defender of widows- this is God, whose dwelling is holy. God places the lonely in families to love them.

Psalms 68:5-6

I also wanted to let you know that at this time we are unable to post pictures of Lila. After we pass court and she is legally "ours" we will post pics so you can see our little love.