o today (3/17) that Jenny and I first set our eyes on Alexandra Sasha Carr at a baby home in Armavir. Our first trip to Russia was an adventure before we even left the US. Due to some freak weather in New York our flight over on the Russian's subsidized airliner took over 2 days in transit (not counting the time zone change). We left on an early Saturday morning out of Wichita and arrived in Krasnodar, Russia around 9 PM on the following Monday. On Tuesday the 16th, we had a meeting with the Ministry of Education official to formalize our desire to meet Sasha. Early (5am) on March 17 we climbed into a van and made the long, bumpy three hour trip to Armavir. We met with the baby home Dr to go over Sasha's medical history. After what seemed to be an endless meeting it was finally time-time to meet the girl God had set aside for us to adopt. I will never forget the very first time I saw Sasha. There wasn't a whole lot to see... after all it was winter and the Russians know how to bundle up kids. If one layer is good, 2 layers is better, and 6 layers is best! All we could see is a little round face peering up at us with two of the most beautiful eyes one could ever want. I have always wondered if love at first site is possible, that day answered the question withclarity - YES!Looking back a year later, a lot has happened. We made another trip back to Russia to go to court and back to the US with our new daughter, we adjusted to life as first time parents living with a 2 year old, and I faced the most difficult and painful thing
I have ever experienced. One thing that is unchanging and was true a year ago and is true today and will be true tomorrow is that God is good and worthy of praise. He is a merciful, loving, caring, and a deeply Awesome God. There is not a day that goes by where I don't thank Him for the precious gift of Sasha.Psalms 46:10 "Be still and know that I am
God;"
God bless,
Matt & Sasha
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