Ecuador Day 20

Saturday Dec. 24th
This morning we woke up to a lovely blowout by Adriana...so that was good times! She hasn't had any accidents during the day...she sleeps in a pull up...so guess that's a good thing this day!  We ran a couple errands with Stephanie to get a couple more items for the Sunday dinner...I am going to attempt to make homemade stuffing!  I'm excited and hope it turns out!

Today we finally got to meet the Perry family that is adopting Flor.  Very nice family with two other biological children.  We went to the English Fellowship church for Christmas Eve Service at 5:00pm.  It was so nice to have a good message and be able to sing praises to the one person that has gotten us to where we are today.  Such a blessing.  I was pretty emotional just singing the Christmas songs and being there with three other adoptive families...such a blessing that four families from four different states...18 people total...gathered together to worship our Lord and Savior on Christmas Eve.  Such a blessing!

After the service the Broaddus family and the three of us went to go get Papa Murphy's (we heard it was the same as in the states..) but when we walked up to the location we saw it was closed...bummer...Allison (the 8 year old girl the Broaddus family adopted) really wanted McDonald's.(they do have those in Quito) but then we found a Tony Romo's restaurant...only to find out it was closed as well...so McDonald's it ended up being! Our Christmas Eve meal consisted of chicken nuggets, french fries, and coke....about the same as it taste back home...but not even close to my mom's traditional lasagna or chili on Christmas Eve...next year. =)

We piled all 8 of us into a very small taxi...Zac in the front the and 7 of us girls in the back...it looked like a clown car and there was a lot of laughing...but we got back to the Broaddus apartment.  (Andy Broaddus had left from home last week and due to him owning a vet clinic and being a vet in Idaho he was unable to return for Christmas)

We got the girls to bed and went to wrapping some gifts.  Stephanie made some Spanish Wedding Cookies which were amazing...need that recipe! Went to bed and awaited the excitement of the morning.