kicking my dear friend under the bus

IF YOU DIDN'T READ MY BLOG FROM EARLIER TODAY JUST READ THIS PART. .WE HOPE BY THE END OF THE DAY WE WILL HAVE SOME GOOD NEWS TO REPORT ON EVERYTHING... BUT WHILE WE ARE WAITING I KNOW GOD HAS A PLAN AND I AM WILLING TO FOLLOW IT..THIS JOURNEY HAS BEEN A TRUE TEST OF PATIENCE AND I WILL BE HAPPY TO FOLLOW IT TO THE END... Proverbs 16: 4 the lord works out everything for his own ends. HERE GOES THAT LIL WORD PATIENCE AGAIN. WHEN WE GOT OFF THE TRAIN WE SCREAMED TO MARIUPOL AT ABOUT 80 MILES AN HOUR. COME INTO TOWN AND GOT DROPPED OFF SAID WAIT HERE WE WILL NE BACK IN A HOUR MAYBE TWO. WELL AS WE WERE SITTING DOWN FOR LUNCH 5 1/2 HOURS LATER WE WERE SCREAMING AROUND TOWN .RUNNING IN THIS BUILDING THEN THE NEXT. WE WERE GOING BY THE HOME TO TAKE A PASSPORT PICTURE. NEXT THING YOU KNOW MY FRIEND SAYS LET'S GO AND WE LEAVE TOM THAT HAS BEEN INTRODUCED TO THE CHILDREN ALL OF ABOUT THREE MINUTES. WE RUN OUT THE DOOR TO DO SOME MORE PAPER WORK. I HAVE TO EMAIL TOM AND TELL HIM TO PUT SOME CLOTHES ON THEM AND IT DIDN'T MATTER WHAT THEY LOOKED LIKE.. SO AFTER DOING THE NEXT BIT OF PAPER WORK WE GET BACK TO THE HOME.. AND I WAS THERE FOR ABOUT TEN MINUTES. IN WHICH I WAS SIGNING MORE PAPER WORK.. THEN WE HAVE THAT HOUR AND A HALF RIDE BACK TO THE OTHER TOWN TO GET PASSPORT INFO. FILED WE HAD TOO CALL AHEAD BEG BEG AND BEG SOME MORE FOR THEM TO WAIT ON US. SO WE DIDN'T HAVE TO SPEND THE NIGHT IN THAT TOWN.. SO WE MAKE IT IN TIME GET THE PAPERS DONE AND WE FIND THE FRONT DOOR LOCKED WE ARE LOCKED IN THIS GOVERNMENT BUILDING.. WE FOUND SOMEONE THAT WAS CLEANING THE BUILDING TO HELP US GET OUT.. THEN WE HAVE A TWENTY MINUTE RIDE TO THE TRAIN STATION THAT THE TRAIN LEAVES IN THIRTY MINUTES..WOW I JUMP OUT THE FRONT DOOR SEND TOM AND KIDS AROUND BACK I GO GET THE TICKETS. SWING BACK TO GO FIND THEM GO BY THIS PLACE THAT I USALLY WOULDN'T EAT AT FOUND FOUR PIECES OF THIS PIZZA LIKE SUBSTANCE COLD DIFFERENT FOUR BOTTLES OF WATER AND MY CHILDREN'S FIRST MEAL WAS TOGETHER .. WE GOT INTO THE TRAIN CAR GOT SETTLED AND ALL SAT TOGETHER AND PRAYED HOLDING HANDS THANKING GOD FOR ALL HE HAS DONE..I HAVE TRAVELED ALMOST SIX THOUSAND MILES TO GET THEM AND NOTHING HAS BEEN TO PLANS TODAY..I NEVER THOUGHT THAT IT WOULD TURN OUT LIKE THIS BUT "GOD KNOWS". IF I WOULD OF HAD A HOUR TO TELL ALL OF THOSE OTHER CHILDREN GOODBYE I LITERALLY THINK I WOULD OF HAD A MASSIVE HEART ATTACK. I DON'T THINK I WOULD OF EVER BEEN ABLE TO WALK OUT WITH MY OWN POWER.. GOD KNOWS WHAT WE CAN AND CAN'T DO AND I THANK HIM MUCH FOR THAT.. PS. WATCH OUT KIEV WE GONNA BUST THAT TOWN WIDE OPEN TOMMOROW.. THANKS MIKE,TOM,ABBIE,GAGE Have a wonderful day. And GOD bless

april 2nd &3rd

As I SIT ON A PLANE GOING BACK ACROSS THE BIG POND. ONE MORE TIME I WOULD LIKe
TO SAY THANKS ONE MORE TIME FOR EVERYONE THAT HAS HELPED ME MAKE IT THIS FAR
FROM THE PERSON WHO HAD THE SMALLEST PART TO THE BIGGEST PART IN THIS JOURNEY..
SOME TIMES IT'S BEEN HARD TO STOP AND SAY THANK YOU FOR ALL THAT YOU HAVE
DONE..ITS BEEN A WONDERFUL JOURNEY SO FAR AND I KNOW WITH GODS HANDS IN THE
MIDDLE OF THIS IT'S GONNA BE FINE.

ITS NOW MONDAY MORNING I NOW SIT IN DOWNTOWN MARIUPOL AND GUESS WHAT I AM
DOING. YOU GOT IT WAITING. WE HAD A PRETTY MUCH UN-eventful TRIP SO FAR THE
TRAIN RIDE LAST NIGHT WASN'T HOT THANKS TO THE WOOL BLANKETS PACKED ON TOP OF
THE HEATER MADE IT AT LEAST WARM AND NOT HOT.. SUPPER LAST NIGHT WAS A LOAF OF
BREAD NOT SLICED AND SOME SORT OF SMOKED SAUSAGE AND PRETZELS.. I MADE SURE
LAST TRIP THAT MY BRIDE GOT TO EAT GOOD.. BUT MY DEAR FRIEND TOM MAY LOOSE SOME
WEIGHT IF THIS KEEPS UP..

JUST AS WE GOT INTO THE TRAIN LAST NIGHT MY LAWYER FRIEND LOOKED AT MY PAPER
WORK THAT I BROUGHT AND SAID THAT I WAS MISSING A PAGE... WELL GUESS HOW MUCH
SLEEP AFTER THAT COMMENT..NOT MUCH!!!! SO THIS MORNING THE US EMBASY WILL GET A
CALL ON DO WE REALLY NEED THAT LETTER OR NOT... MY PRAYER IS THAT WE WILL BE
OK.. BUT IN THE MEAN TIME WE ARE LOOKING FOR A WOMAN THAT LOOKS LIKE LEEANN SOO
THEY CAN GO SIGN THIS PAPER WITH ME... THE ONLY PROBLEM WITH THAT THERE NOT ANY
IN THE UKRAINE THAT GOOD LOOKING BUT WE WILL TRY..

WE HOPE BY THE END OF THE DAY WE WILL HAVE SOME GOOD NEWS TO REPORT ON
EVERYTHING... BUT WHILE WE ARE WAITING I KNOW GOD HAS A PLAN AND I AM WILLING TO
FOLLOW IT..THIS JOURNEY HAS BEEN A TRUE TEST OF PATIENCE AND I WILL BE HAPPY TO
FOLLOW IT TO THE END...

Proverbs 16: 4 the lord works out everything for his own ends.




Have a wonderful day. And GOD bless

ON YOUR MARK !!!!!!

ARE YOU READY WELL ITS TIME TO GO AND GET MY BABIES I WILL BE LEAVING PUMKIN CENTER GA. SATURDAY MORNING.. CAN ANYONE SAY HOOORAAAAYYYYYYY...   I PROMISE NO MORE HALF HEARTED BLOGS THIS TIME. I PLAN TO HAVE JUST AS MUCH FUN AS I CAN POSSIBLE HAVE ON THIS TRIP. I CANT WAIT TOO SEE THEM..  IT S UP TO MY FRIEND ACROSS THE POND FOR MY NEXT POST.... THANKS FOR THE PRAYERS..

They are Gurley"s YAY!!!!

I COULDN'T MAKE UP SOMETHING LIKE THIS!!!!

TRUE STORY I PROMISE WITH ALL MY HEART

IF I WANTED TO MAKE UP A STORY I COULD NEVER BE ABLE TO MAKE UP ONE LIKE THIS.. I DID MAKE UP SOME OF THAT OTHER BLOG BUT NOT THIS.. YESTERDAY AFTER WE HAD GOTTEN OUR COURT DECISION WE WERE SUPOSE TO GET A APPLICATION FOR  THE CHILDREN'S PASSPORT FILED OUT GO BACK AND PACK UP SIT AROUND FOR A LIL BIT THEN GO TO THE HOME FOR A CELEBRATION THEN ON TO THE TRAIN STATION IN THE TOWN WE WERE IN..FOR OUR TRIP HOME... WELL DO Y'ALL REMEMBER MY BLOG ABOUT PATIENCE WELL I GUESS" I DIDNT " GOOD ENOUGH BECAUSE HERE IS HOW MY DAY WENT .. FOR REAL WHEN WE GOT UP TUESDAY AM I HAVING  SOME COFFE DRINKING TIME AND I HAD STARTED WRITTING MY BLOG FOR YESTERDAY ALL I NEEDED TO PUT IN WERE THE DETAILS ABOUT THE COURT TIME..  
WELL MY LAWYER TELLS ME SHE HAS NEVER BEEN IN FRONT OF THIS JUDGE AND DIDN'T KNOW WHAT TO EXPECT.  WELL THEN WE WAITED FOR TWO HOURS AFTER THE TIME WE WERE TOLD TO BE THERE.. WHICH WASNT BAD BECAUSE  I HAD BROUGHT MY LIL NOTEBOOK AND ADDED SOME THINGS I FELT WAS WORTH THE METION IN THE BLOG. I HAD ABOUT 3 PAGES WRITTEN OUT JUST HAD TO TYPE..THE NIGHT BEFORE I TRIED TO CHANGE OUR TICKETS TO WED. FROM SATURDAY NO PROBLEM I GOT ON THE PUTOR GOT ALL THE WAY TO THE LAST PAGE AND THE CONNECTION JAMMED UP.. MY CREDIT CARD HAD THE PENDING CHARGE BUT I WASN'T ON THE AIRLINES WEBSITE SO I KEPT ON CHECKING ON THAT.. THE PHONE WOULDN'T CALL A 800 NUMBER
WHEN YOU CALLED THE AIRLINES NUMBER I GOT UKRAINIAN PERSON "NO ENGLISH CALL 800 NUM".. WELL AFTER COURT WE GO TO THE NOTARY THAT MY GROUP LET'S  DO ALL THEIR WORK..YEP CLOSED FOR THE DAY."LEEANN HAD TO WALK ABOUT A MILE IN HIGH HEELS" WE GET TAKEN BACK TO THE APARTMENT WE PACK .. I HAD TIME TO WRITE THE BLOG I GO LOOK IN THE BACKPACK NO YELLOW NOTEBOOK I THOUGHT TO MYSELF LORD WHAT DID I WRITE THAT YOU DIDNT WANT ME TO SAY.. I HADNT GOT A CLUE NOW .. SO IN HAST BECAUSE I THOUGHT I WAS IN A HURRY AND I KNEW OUR FAMILY WOULD WANT TOO KNOWN ABOUT COURT I PUT MY THOUGHTS BACK TOGETHER IN THE POST AND SENT IT..IN A HURRY WE THOUGHT WE WERE IN A HURRY TO GET BACK TO THE HOME.. OUR DRIVER SHOWS UP AND SAY WE GOTTA GO..A  BABY, CAR TO MUCH LUGAGE REMEMBER DON'T BRING MUCH..SO THEN WE ARE OFF TO GO WAIT IN THE CAR WHICH SEEMED LIKE FOREVER ONLY REALLY A HOUR.. THE PAPERS ARE READY WE SIGN.. OUR LAWYER HAS SOME BAD NEWS NO TRAIN WE HAVE TO TRAVEL TWO HOURS TO THE NEXT TOWN TO CATCH A TRAIN.. TIME LINE WE HAVE ABOUT 28 minutes TO HAVE A PARTY IN THE HOME.. NEXT TO COURT EARLIER THAT WAS GREAT .. MORE ON THAT LATER.. WE THEN RUSH OUT from the home a FAMILIAR FRIEND,, A DRIVER THAT WAS GONNA TAKE US TO THE TRAIN.. BEFORE WE LEAVE THE PARKING LOT I LOST MY INTERNET CONNECTION TO THE WORLD. MY STICK WAS GOING TO THE ECHOLS THAT WERE COMING TO TOWN THE NEXT DAY. I STILL HAD MY IPAD THAT WE HAVE KINDA RIGGED UP SOME INTERNET ON..WE STOPPED AT A GROCERY STORE TO RUN IN AND  GET SOME FOOD FOR THE TWELVE HOUR RIDE. I GO GET SOME WATER AND SNACKS I LEFT LEEANN AT A LIL DELI.. WE GET BACK IN THE CAR WITH FIVE MINUTES TO MAKE IT TO THE TRAIN,,WE GET ON THE TRAIN OPEN THE IPAD IT WON'T COME ON AT ALL BLACK SCREEN NOTHING... WE CHARGED THE THING NOTHING.. WE SHOOK IT,,MASHED ALL THREE BUTTONS EVERY WAY THAT YOU CAN IMAGINE,,,NO CONNECTION TO THE WORLD..
No checking on THE KIDS AT HOME NO CHECKING ON PARENTS, NOTHING,,STILL DON'T KNOW ABOUT PLANE TICKETS..MY FRIEND   "ARM" "JOE KNOWS" MET US ON THE TRAIN  THE NEXT MORNING AIN'T NOTHING LIKE A FACE YOU KNOW. WE MAKE OUR WAY TO THE AIRPORT WE STOP AT A MCDONALDS I WAS ABLE TOO USE  THEIR WIFI TO SEND JUSTIN A MESSAGE TO BE AT THE Airport..WE GET TO THE AIRPORT I TRY TO CHECK IN AT THE KIOSK PROBLEM!!!!!!  PLEASE   CALL CUSTOMER SERVICE.... HELLO... SO I WAIT WITH THE PATIENCE OF "A OLE MOTHER HEN".. TWO HOURS FOR THE DESK OPENS WITH MY AIRLINES.. YEP YOU GOT IT I WAS THE FIRST IN LINE.. THE LADY TOLD ME IN PLAIN ENGLISH THERE IS NO PROBLEM YOUR FLIGHT WILL BE ON SATURDAY..WHATWOE,!!!
I SAID CAN I PLEASE GO TODAY SAME FLIGHTS TIMES SHE HAD A FEW STRANGE LOOKS TO HER COMPUTER AND TOLD ME ABOUT THE CHARGE ALL I COULD SAY WAS DA!!  We GET OUR TICKETS GO STAND IN THE WRONG LINE FOR A WHILE. GOT TO BE OUR TURN IN THE CORRECT LINE AND GUESS WHAT THAT EXTRA BAG THAT I PAID FOR WHEN I BOUGHT THE TICKETS FOR SATURDAY...WELL    IT DIDN'T TRANSFER OVER THE LADY TOOK MY BAGS AND TOLD ME I NEEDED TO GO BACK WHERE I WAS BEFORE AND PAY FOR THE EXTRA BAG.. GO THRU SECURITY WITH NO PROBLEM.. WE TAKE THE BUS TO THE PLANE CLIMB ON BOARD SIT DOWN AND FOR SOME REASON I PULL OUT THE IPAD LIKE I HAVE 100 TIMES SINCE IT WOULDNT COME ON WHEN I NEEDED SOME HELP..AND SURE AS I AM MIKE GURLEY THE THING COMES ON.. I LOOKED AT LEEANN,, AND I SAID YOU DON'T THINK MY GOD DOESN'T HAVE A GREAT SENCE OF HUMOR THEN YOUR CRAZY... SEE I NEEDED GOD, I DIDN'T NEED THAT "WWW"....HE WAS ALWAY ENOUGH FOR ME TO GET US THROUGH THIS LEG OF OUR JOURNEY..
I GUESS THAT'S WHAT HE WAS TRYING TO SHOW ME.. I AM JUST GLAD I NEVER LOST IT..WOW. AS YOU MAY WELL KNOW THIS IS NOT OVER YET.  

FROM TWO HUMBLE SERVANTS FOLLOWING WHERE HE LEADS US THANK YOU FOR YOUR PRAYERS, MIKE AND LEEANN  

SOMETIMES LIFE JUST GOODER AND GOODER!!!!!

I HAVE BEEN TO COURT 100 TIMES BEFORE AND I AIN'T NEVER BEEN NERVOUS.. WELL TODAY IS THE DAY COURT FOR A JUDGE TOO DECIED IF WE CAN ADOPT OR NOT.. IT MAKES IT WORSE BECAUSE WE HAD TO PRACTICE WHAT WE WERE GOING TOO SAY...  KINDA REMINDS YOU OF COURT IN WARREN COUNTY...

Well as we GO OUT TO DINNER LAST NIGHT WITH OUR UKRAINE LADY FRIEND AKA.MRS.S WE SOMEHOW GOT TO TALKING ABOUT CARTOONS IMAGINE THAT THE NEXT THING YOU KNOW WE ARE WATChING THIS CARTOON ON YOUTUBE ABOUT THIS DONKEY YEA DONKEY DON'T TURN AWAY NOW I AM GOING SOMEWHERE WITH THIS... THIS DONKEY WAS NAMED ENOCH SHORT AND GRAY WITH BIG EARS KINDA REMINDED YOU OF THAT ON ON DISNEY.. WELL HE WAS LOOKING IN THIS WATER HOLE THAT HAD THE APPEARANCE OF BEING ABOUT SIX FEET IN DIAMETER.. HE WOULD LOOK AT HIS SELF IN THE REFLECTION WALKED TO THE OTHER SIDE AND LOOK WITH HIS REAL DISTANCE LOOK ON HIS FACE,HE WOULD GO INTO THE MIDDLE LOOKING INTO TOO THE WATER.. THERE WAS NO CHANGE IN HOW HE LOOKED NOTHING CHANGED UNTIL HE STEPPED INTO THE MIDDLE OF THE WATER HOLE THERE WAS NO DIFFERENCE..  I AM NOT ASKING YOU TOO GO HALF WAY AROUND THE WORLD TO ADOPT A CHILD THO THAT MAY BE WHAT YOUR SUPOSE TO DO.BUT WHAT IS GOD ASKING YOU TOO DO THAT YOU WON'T RIPPLE THE WATER..WHY WON'T YOU HAVE FAITH LIKE A CHILD THAT GOD IS IN CONTROL...WE ACTUALLY HAVE PUT OUR HEARTS,LIVES,AND MONEY IN THE HANDS OF GOD AND LET HIM LEAD US TOO WHERE WE WERE SUPOSE TO BE WITH WHEN WE WERE SUPOSE TO BE THERE NOT A MINUTE LATER...

AFTER WE WAITED OVER TWO HOURS IN THE HALL FOR OUR JUDGE TO HAVE TIME FOR OUR APPOINTMENT WE GO INTO COURT.. PS."GAGE AND I WERE THE ONLY TWO MEN IN THIS GROUP OF 12 AND MAY I SAY FOR THE RECORD THEESE WOMEN WITH THE PATIANCE  OF A FLY BETTER WATCH-OUT CAUSE GOD MAY WORK ON THAT FOR THEM..". WE GO THREW ALL THE GARBLE JUNK OF THE OFFICIAL TALK AND WHEN THE JUDGE WAS ASKING ABBIE AND GAGE ABOUT GOING FAR AWAY AND HAVING THE HARDSHIPS OF A NEW PLACE TO LIVE,NEW SCHOOL,NEW HOME,NEW LANGUAGE,NEW FAMILY THEY STOOD UP JUST AS PROUD OF A HUMAN-BEING COULD EVER BE AND SAID "DA,DA,DA" AS I LOOKED AT THOSE CHILDREN IT HIT ME LIKE A TRAIN LOAD OF BRICK I WAS SHAKING  YOU GOT IT CRYING WAS NEXT...YEP CRYING OUT LOUD I DIDN'T CARE... WOW GOD,!!!!! I WAS THINKING....I  CANT BELIEVE IT,YOU HAVE USED THESE  CHILDREN,TO COME INTO MY LIFE, HELPED ME BE A BETTER  PERSON,TOUCHING OUR FAMILY IN WAYS WE CAN'T DESCRIBE.   AND WOW!!!!! AGAIN GOD IT JUST GETS GOODER AND GOODER WE HAVE OFFICIAL PERMISSION FROM THE COURT TO BRING OUR TWO NEWEST CHILDREN HOME....                                   

IF WE WOULD OF WORIED ABOUT THE WHAT IF'S IN ALL OF THIS, IF WE HAD NOT WANTED TO MAKE A RIPPLE IN  OUR LIVES DOING WHAT GOD HAS CALLED US TO DO THEN WE WOULD HAVE NEVER HAD ALL THIS FUN,TEARS,SWEAT....AND JOY!!!!
    AND HAPPINESS!!!!!  
Thank you all from the bottom of our HEARTS For your part in this..
     Mike and Leeann

WELL.

WELL AS WE SIT WAITING ON SOMETHING TO HAPPEN AFTER BEING IN THE SAME PLACE FOR OVER A WEEK.WE WENT TO EAT LUNCH. SALAD FOR LEEANN AND UKRAINE BOOSCH SOUP FOR ME.. IT WAS GREAT SO AS WE STILL SIT AT THE TABLE MY FRIEND HAS JUST PHONED ME AND SAID THAT WE HAVE OFFICIALLY BEEN TOLD THAT OUR COURT DATE HAS BEEN SET....YAHOOOOOOOO. TOMMOROW MORNING AT 9 AM. WOW I CAN'T BELIEVE THIS ONE STEP CLOSER TO THE FINISH LINE..THANK YOU LORD FOR THE NEWS I AINT SAYING WERE GOING TO BE DRAGGING ACROSS PUT OUR BAGS MAY VERY WELL...SO WE ARE IN A PACE TO BOOK TICKETS ON THE TRAIN,CHANGE OUR FLIGHT SO WE DON'T HAVE TO WAIT TILL SATURDAY NIGHT TO LEAVE. WE WILL BE INTOUCH WHEN WE WORK OUT TRAVEL PLANS SO CARSON CAN HAVE THE HOUSE CLEANED UP BEFORE WE GET HOME....