It's Official!!! Hanna is ours!!

We got an email very late Monday night from our specialist that Hanna's case made it through court on Monday (July 7) and we are now officially her guardians!! It is so wonderful. We got the news while we have been away at the Eastern Regional Conference for The Vineyard. Wow, its so great to have all these folks around us that we can share this news with!

What happens next is that the court documents get typed up, a new birth certificate gets drafted and we are assigned a court date. It takes approximately 4 weeks for that documentation to happen and then we'll travel 3 - 4 weeks after that. Its becoming more and more real all of the time.

Now that we're officially Hanna's parents we can post her picture. So, may I introduce you to Hanna Tessema - (this picture was taken late May).