Court- Butterflies in my tummy :)

I really do have butterflies in my stomach! We were given today as our court date, and when asked about it being a Sunday, our coordinator explained that with the time change, etc. it really happens today and we will hear the news tomorrow (Monday). I keep doing the math in my head and I still don't quite understand when the court appt. would be, but I just keep stopping today and praying. I know I only need to ask God once and He hears me, I think the other 400 times must be for me. God-willing you can visit here tomorrow and see the sweet pictures of our baby girl. Pray for us tonight and we will be here tomorrow with updates and pictures as soon as we hear!!!

A baby shower!

My dear friends threw a baby shower for Gabrielle. It was such a special day surrounded by my closest friends and family. SO much love, SO much generousity! I was totally overwhelmed at times just thinking of how loved and cherished this child of ours is, then throw on all of the amazing gifts she received......comparing that to where she has come from. She deserves EVERY bit of it. One of my friends said it best after I opened the most gorgeous set of baby bone china for her, "Well, she certainly was not born with a silver spoon in her mouth, but she is having one put in it." We laughed so hard. She is so loved and has been for so long. I cried tears of happiness and feeling more blessed than ever. God is so good!
Oh, by the way, it felt so funny to go to my baby shower not physically pregnant......so I surprised my friends with a little funny and came with our referral picture taped to my belly! I have a cute pic of it, and started to post it and then realized you can see her face.........whew, that was close. You will just have to wait one more week! I am going to rub it in though, WAIT TILL YOU SEE HER!!!! :) She is a doll!

We have a court date!!

I was not expecting to hear today.......go figure that throughout this whole process I am finally caught off guard with something happening BEFORE I thought it would and BEFORE I was emotionally drained from waiting. I think staring at our beautiful girl's face everyday and still feeling like I am on cloud nine must help a little :)

We are scheduled for MAY 4!!!!!

So looking forward to sharing pictures that day with the help of God and a successful court hearing so that she becomes OURS!

Seeing Gabrielle for the FIRST time!

We have a baby girl!!!

The call really did come!!!!!! At 10:00 this morning Duni called and said this was the day. We have a little girl, she is beautiful and is healthy and is 6 months old. We are beyond excited and can't really believe this is happening.......it is incredible!!!! Thank you God for sending us this beautiful angel.

Another day in the life of waiting and being UBER CLOSE!!

We were back to Alexandria, VA for our renewal of fingerprints appointment this morning. With the video camera ON MY LAP- JUST IN CASE, I told Pete that "the call" was of course going to come while sitting in the packed DMV like waiting area of the USCIS office. I said I was not going to hold back and for him to be prepared for me to be screaming and to potentially be escorted out of the USCIS office as a potential threat of some unknown sort. We got a good chuckle and then he remembered that we could not take cell phones in. WHAT!!!! Not that I WANTED the call to come in the USCIS office, BUT I COULD NOT MISS THE CALL EITHER---not after all this time (insert MAJOR womanly drama here)!!! We could be in there in the black hole for hours, like we had been in the past. I had this so perfectly orchestrated in my head before we left the house, as well as having the home phone forwarded to my cell, now I would have to quickly change course, because any woman out there waiting knows----there is a science to this and it must be well planned out and strategically thought about EACH and every time we leave the house. Well, nothing for me to really do but sprint to the car after being fingerprinted to see if I had indeed missed the call........I had not. Deep sigh, another day in the life of knowing we are SOOOO close and should be hearing soon.


I know I sound crazy, but I know many out there have done things like this, please feel free to share those in the reply to this post so that I don't seem really nuts! Come on, I know someone else has forwarded their phone..... :)

God has this planned and I know He will do it in His way, lets just hope I'm not stranded in the bathroom when the call comes, as I don't have a plan for this......yet :0

Things rolling again

YEAH! My friend Dana received her referral this morning!! I am so happy for them. Their paper baby travelled with our paper baby TOGETHER back many months ago, so I can only imagine how she must be feeling right now. It is so rejuvinating to hear of referrals flowing again!

Adding this later: The West family also received their referral for a baby boy! Yeah!

Congrats Cordell and West families!!!!