Thursday, May 30, 2013

Ella's Adoption Finalization!!!!

Oh Happy Day ~ Our sweet girl is officially ours!!  Ella's adoption became final on Friday, May 17, but it has been final in our hearts from day 1!  Judge Matzke was delightful.  She interacted with Ella and Michael and in the end she said, "And now we are making Michael a big brother!"  It was sweet of her to include him.
 
 
 Ella with our sweet attorney, Jana.
When we arrived at the courthouse we parked in the new parking garage.  If you have been around Michael lately you know that he talks all day long about garages.  He points out every garage you pass as well.  The parking garage was just almost more than he could handle!  He talked about it throughout Ella's finalization.  It quickly became a joke with the judge and attorneys.  In the end, our attorney said, "Ok, judge lets wrap this up and go to the parking garage!"  So we of course had to get a picture in front of the parking garage.  Oh brother! 
 
We celebrated our sweet girl the following Saturday! 

 



 


 Popcorn Bar!

 


















Ella was such a trooper.  Sweet thing didn't take her usual morning nap (I think she knew it was party day!), but she powered through the party.  Not many pics have a smile.  :(
And speaking of pictures, once again I did a lousy job of taking pictures of all our party guests.  I started out pretty good, but it didn't last long.  Missed capturing lots of sweet friends and family members that came to celebrate our sweet Ella Grace.

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