Adoption Day!

Ella and her Aunt Jessica

Eating out after the big day.

The judge and us.

We had Ella's adoption day in court on Nov. 6th. It is her initial hearing not her finalizing. She has to be with us for 6 months before we can finalize, but we can do her initial and then we don't have to go back down to Denver to finalize. We wanted to go this day because our adoption agency has the day especially marked out for their families to go to court. There were about 27 families there. Some were finalizing their adoptions and others were doing their initial hearing like us. We had a potluck lunch at 12:00 and then the families were called up to go to their court hearing. It was a good day. :) Ella was so good in the court room. She started cooing while the judge talked and asked us questions. David crawled under the table we were sitting at, the judge thought he was so cute and for our picture with her she asked him if she could hold him, he just put up his arms and let her pick him up as if he had known her all the time. So now on January 16 the court will open up our file and sign off on it and send us our papers and Ella will be " official". http://www.denverpost.com/search/ci_10924265 this is a article in the Denver Post on the day.

Nov 07 2008 - VID00010

Nov 07 2008 - VID00010

This is a guest blogger for Crystal trying to see if I can add video to her blog. This is a short video of the court date Ella had on Nov. 7th.

Hi ya all! Sorry no pictures for awhile. Our camera broke and we are using my mom's but I cant' get the pictures on my computer. But I guess I can still write. We are all ok. David has a cold possible turning into croup (I think that is how it is spelled) a really bad cough. Ella is getting it I think. She was coughing today and is sleeping alot and has a runny/stuffy nose. Yea fun times! We had a really fun Halloween. Eddie's sisters came over and the kids, also Brian,Jody,Logan and Coy came. We did some trick or treating and then ate chili and pizza,yum. The weather was great. We also toasted marsmellow out side. Later that night we watched STRANGERS. It was a little scary. The part about it being based on a true story is the scary part. Then we went to bed. I know, we live such an exciting life:) Well I have to go Eddie just called and we are heading to the store. I will catch you up more later.