Hailey's day in court

Hailey's adoption is finalized!!! Our hearing was scheduled for yesterday at 9:00 am, our attorney was an hour late. His clerk put the wrong name on the final decree, we then had to wait for her to bring a corrected copy. After that, the judge wouldn't sign the decree because he did not have an original copy of our criminal background clearance (we had 2 copies, but when the states work with each other to approve an out of state adoption the agency sends one for UT to keep in our file in Salt Lake and one to the file in New Jersey). The judge had the stamped paper from the bureau indicating that we had been cleared, he also had a stamp that we had FBI clearance as well (that is not required, but our social worker does it as part of her home study just to be extra thorough). It did not matter, he insisted that we bring in another original report. So... Andrew took Cody Joe to school, (luckily we sent Tia, Krista and Zach to school, small bit of inspiration that I originally felt guilty about). We stopped at the gas station to get Hailey some chips for a snack, then drove to Salt Lake and got another copy. We got back to the courthouse just before 1:00 pm, the judge was in a meeting. We gave the reports to his clerk, got Hailey some chips for lunch from the vending machine, waited another hour and a half... and FINALLY walked out of the courthouse with adoption decree!!!

Hailey's Adoption and Sealing

We are going to court to finalize Hailey's adoption on Tuesday October 21st!!!

She will be Sealed to us (in the Provo Temple), Saturday November 15th.

We are so excited!

Hailey Boop

The "cuteness" overfloweth...

I told Andrew that we were going to get pizza for dinner, Hailey overheard and said

"Yeah! Pee-sa Nigh-T" (she really enunciates that T on the end)

Hailey likes to "scare" Andrew... She peeks into his room and says "boo, nanoo". No special voice alteration, she says it very matter of factly.

While I was doing laundry downstairs, she squirted juice from a juice box onto the floor. When I came upstairs and stepped in it she said "I Sah-ee mom". When I went to get a washcloth, she asked me to pick her up. I told her "just a minute, I need to clean up the juice", she thought that I was upset and wouldn't pick her up. She looked up at me and said

"I Sah-ee though!"

Hailey is an absolute angel baby! We feel so lucky and blessed to have this sweet little one in our family. We signed all the papers to finalize her adoption last week (finally). We are waiting now for a court date, then we can take her to the Temple. We are very ready!

I have been "tagged"! (by Denise)

I am supposed to list 6 "quirky" things about myself... 1. I do a very good "Woody Woodpecker" impression. 2. The cans in the cupboard have to be perfectly aligned with labels all facing out exactly even. Some perspective about this "quirk", Tia gets 180 cans of Pediasure each month for her tube feedings... I won't let anyone else put the cans in the cupboard. The funniest thing about this is that I am not a neat freak at all, my house is usually pretty cluttered. 3. I love to cut out pictures from magazines and tape them into spiral notebooks. Decorating ideas, gift ideas, etc. 4. I make a list for everything, sometimes I make a list of things that I want to make lists of. 5. I love pajamas. If I could get away with it I would never get dressed into "real clothes". Truthfully, a lot of my "real clothes" look suspiciously like PJ's. 6. I laid in bed awake for 3 nights in a row thinking of things to put on this list... (see #4) I love a good list!