In 48 hours we head back to MI!!!!!! Saturday night we hope to spend some time with Ella. Might be Saturday afternoon if I can get the Xterra up to 100 and avoid cops.
Monday we go to Adoption Associates and sign some more papers. Then our adoption request is sent to the judge. We hope by Friday of next week he officially places Ella with us!!!! Sometime around that Friday we will begin transitioning Ella to our family. Ella has been through a lot and it would not be wise for her to wake up one day and just start living with Sue and I. So we will gradually spend more and more time with her, until she eventually spends the night with us and doesn't go back to her host family. During this time Michigan will be processing documents to allow her to leave the state and Nebraska will be processing documents to allow her to live here. And I thought international adoption had a lot of paperwork.
Please pray for all the finishing rulings/paperwork, we would LOVE for this to go smoothly. Pray for Sue and I as we make this BIG transition. Above all, pray for a little girl who has gone through a lot and that she can now experience peace/stability.
Here are some more pics for your(mainly mine) daily Ella fix.
LOTS and LOTS of prayers coming your way!!! Can't wait to hear that the "i's" are dotted and "t's" are crossed and she's yours (okay, ours)!! Love you guys!
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