Day 31. IT'S A GIRL !!!!!!!!!

May we be the first to introduce you to our new daughter:

NATASHA ROSE RAY

Weighting in at 99lbs, 3 oz
60 inches long
Her Mother and Father are doing great and are coming home on Saturday !!!!!!!

This is Natasha with her Passport, Birth certificate, & Adoption certificate. She has been smiling ear to ear all day since the judge announced she was officially ours.

This is all of us at the courthouse. The Judge is in the middle. There are 2 members of the jury. The prosecutor is missing from this picture. Juvenal authority. The deputy director of the Orphanage & our facilitator is behind the camera.

The court room.
Natasha with our facilitator, who is the absolute greatest !!!
This is us just outside the courtroom before we went in for our appointment.

This is the Court building.
We left about 8:00am this morning and didn't get back till 7:00pm this evening. We had a very big wonderful day. After court or facilitator dropped us off at a restaurant that we like. We wanted to celebrate some with Natasha. Plus, we were all hungry. LOL. While we were eating and enjoying the park, our facilitator was running around getting the adoption decree, the birth certificate, the paperwork needed for the passport. There was an error on the court document so she had to go back to the courthouse to get that fixed also. I'm telling you, this lady is a working machine. It was probably 3 hours until she was able to pick us back up and go to our apartment. Luckily it was nice and sunny and warm out. We had a leisurely lunch and walked the whole park. And, we still had time to spare. LOL.

Thank you , Thank you everyone for your continued prayers. Uncle Bob you are just awesome !!! We love you, you brought tears to our eyes this morning. For those of you who don't know, Uncle Bob really does have a "soft side". LOL. Seriously though. We got several text messages on our cell phone from Uncle Bob right before our court hearing today. That means he set his alarm and got up and PRAYED for and with us. You make me smile and we can't wait to get back and go to church "with" you Uncle Bob. Just an FYI. Any single Lady's out there looking for a really great, studly man who will always treat them right. Uncle Bob is your man. And thank you for "Talking to Shauna", she needs her butt beat. You have my permission to go over and do so. Although you don't really need my permission anymore because she is what they consider an "adult" now. And with such language !!! But, dude, don't give her any more "words" to use. How about just "Natasha is so tall." I love you my Shauna. We are coming home in 4 days. Can you stand it. I miss you !!!

Shauna, maybe grandma could shut the garage door when she is there during the week. DUH !!! Hey mom, I forgot to tell you that Bob has said. "It's a little weird knowing that your mother-in-law is at home sleeping in our bed." LOL. Don't you just love that. Maybe he will buy me a new mattress now !!

Theresa. I'm sorry, we have not run into your boy. I will try to ask about them tomorrow. Thanks for the prayers.

Thank you dad Ray. And your going to Mexico for lunch is too funny. I know it just made Shauna's blood boil. LOL. It's not fair though that we don't know what she says to you in Spanish.

Thank you Lucia. Thank you Michelle. We got this on as soon as possible. We were visiting with our friends we have made here this evening. Oksana & Slavik have given us a gift from the Ukraine. They are such good friends. We are already planning on trying to bring Helena over next summer for a few weeks to visit. It was funny, because she does not want to wait a year, she wants to come this summer. LOL.

Hey Dan. Trying to spoil my big news much. LOL.

Thanks again everyone,

God Bless,

Sweet dreams,

Love,

Gail