Our Kazakhstan Adoption

Hello, We are Joe and Steph - a couple with a young biological son who have made the decision to adopt a child from Kazakhstan. Joe also has a teenage daughter from a previous marriage. Rather than infertility, we are adopting "by choice". We made this decision after much thought and research. There are so many children in the world that need a loving home. We hope this blog will keep our friends/family informed of our progress along the way!

Tuesday, April 03, 2007

Brogan is ours!

Court went very smoothly this afternoon. It truly was "quick and painless" as I had prayed for!
We are officially Brogan's parents - well, the true FINAL court decision comes at the end of the 2 week appeal period, but they granted our adoption. The entire proceeding was only an hour. The prosecuter did not even ask us any questions and the judge only deliberated for maybe 15-20 minutes before returning with her decision.
We missed our afternoon visit today due to court, but will see Brogan again tomorrow for the last time before we head home. That will be hard! The baby home is going to have lunch for us to celebrate. Everyone here has been so helpful and wonderful. They really are happy to see the babies find families.
We return to Almaty Thursday, and then leave for home on Saturday morning.
Thanks to everyone for your thoughts and prayers!
I will post more once we get home (unless something exciting happens here before we leave - then I'll post sooner). It will be 3-4 weeks before one of us can return to get him. We are going to have him escorted to Almaty, so the return trip should be only a week or less.

1 Comments:

Blogger Karla said...

Oh, congratulations! So happy for you and your family...not all are doing so well...sigh.

Can't wait for pictures and an update!

Karla

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