The adoption finalization was yesterday! Actually, I wanted to post this yesterday but... I was just tired when I got home! We got to the courthouse a little before 9:30 am. It was sooo crowded. A volunteer came up to us and asked if we were finalizing. When we said yes, she told us she would be our escort. Thanks so much to my sisters for coming! It really meant a lot to me.
(So, the balloon's in my face but Josh looks so cute that I had to post this picture anyway.)
After walking through the security gates and up a flight of stairs, our escort led us to courtroom number 3. That's our caseworker from LDS Family Services, Talaisha, who met us there.
We were seriously in the courtroom for less than ten minutes. They just asked us some routine questions, like our birthdates, our full names, and our marriage date. The judge was very nice with letting us take pictures after the hearing was over. Then, our little escort took us back down the stairs where we got a family photo taken, a pretty picture frame for the photo, and then on to the clerk's office to get some of our paperwork notarized. We don't have the photo yet. They will be sending it to us in the mail. After that, we were done! We went outside and let the kiddies get their faces painted while we ate popcorn. My bishop asked me today if I got teary during the hearing. You know, I really didn't. It was so fast that I didn't have time to and I'm kind of glad about that. I've been so excited about the sealing that I hadn't really thought about how special this day was for us also. November 21st, Joshy. November 21st.
