It's Official!!!!

We have gone to court and gotten the OK!  I know that this may be confusing to some as the boys are ours, but the way they came home required another adoption recognized here in the US.  It went great!! I was, of course, a nervous wreck.  Before we walked in, our lawyer pulled us aside and said that we have the judge we wanted.  YEAH!!  I thought that this might mean we just stand up there and he gives us the OK.   I still had to testify, which was a little nerve wracking.  I really don't know what I said except for a lot of yes's.  I think that I nodded a few times in stead of saying yes.  When our lawyer finished his questioning, I was about to step down when the judge then decided to ask me a few questions.  Gareth didn't end up having to testify b/c one of the questions the judge asked was if he were to put my husband on the stand, would he say exactly what I said.  Of course, he would, so Gareth got off lucky.  In the end, we were given the approval and the adoption was granted.  We were in there less than 10 minutes!  Praise GOD!!!!  

I will post some pics now.  I couldn't get a great one of all of us.  The boys didn't want to cooperate.  We also had friends come and that meant the world to us!!  The funniest part was when we were leaving the court room and Callum said, "can I talk now?  Is it ok and I won't go to jail?"  Too cute.  Alex had told him going down that if he talked, the judge would kick him out of the court room. Callum interpreted that as going to jail.  Very funny!!

Now we are going to await their new birth certificates and then apply for US Citizenship for them.  I pray that the next step goes as smoothly as today did!!!   We now legally have a Callum and William!!  We do have to do some name changes too, but that is just busy work really!!

Thank you Lord for watching over us today and making it go as smoothly as it did!!