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!!!