Big Week....and it all begins with this!

This week is a big one for us. Today we went to court at 9:00 this morning to finalize our adoption with Zander. It is always an emotional moment for me when the judge says, "Let it be known, on the record, that Carl L. Weeks and Paula K. Weeks are legally the parents of Zander J. Weeks."

When the attorney is asking all kinds of questions to make everything official, sometimes I get nervous, but in the end, what a neat experience. We wanted to take a picture (like we did with Kya). It was quiet and we were all smiling waiting for the picture and Kya said really loud.."CHEESE". The judge commented with, "this girl must have had a lot of pictures taken"....if you only knew your honor.

One of the questions our attorney asked us was, "tell the judge why you think it is in the best interest of the child that you adopt him" and then he asks, "are you under any influence that would impair your judgement?"....my response was "emotions, does that qualify as an impairment?" (me...balling like a baby...you know)

In this picture from left to right.

Attorney Browning, the Judge, me and the sleeping star, Carl and Kya, and our LDSFS case worker Jason.

Zander fell asleep on my shoulder just as I sat down in court...what a good little boy.

Now we have the temple to look forward to on Saturday and we will finally bless Zander on Sunday, plus celebrating Kya's third birthday on Sunday. I love this time in our lives...we are so blessed.