Today started earlier than expect for Abby and I both. She just happened to wake up at 4:15 am while I had been awake for 15 minutes. I awoke with the thought that the time on my phone was set wrong and what if we miss our court time. I was so convinced my phone was wrong that I went to the window to check and make sure it was still dark outside. After laying in the bed for two hours the alarm went off and we got out of bed to prepare for our big day in court.
The ride to court was very quiet, except the times I told Abby, "I got to get my game face on." This was me trying to hide the fact that all night I kept thinking that I was going to really mess this up in court. So we get to the court room and wait in the court room for about 30 minutes before the judge walks in. And then it begins.....
They asked basic question to start and then it was all on me! From the time we went into court until we finished, I was very calm. I did mess up a little on the medical information we got on Lex, but overall I did very good. My question time was much shorter than expected and I had to explain what a Children's Pastor was. I guess over here the church does not minister to children. Then it was Abby's turn and she got more questions than I did. She did great, expected she talks with her hands too much and she wouldn't keep them still.
After our questions the prosecutor stood and read her opinion of what she heard in court. All remarks were good. Then the social worker stood gave her opinion about the adoption. We found out that they offered Lex to 8 families and no one wanted him. They also ran his picture on the TV station showing the orphans and no one called about him. She then went on to read that she thought the adoption was good for Lex and approved. The judge then sent us outside so she could decide what she wanted to do.
As we waited for a few short minutes I thought about how far we have come and now we get the final say on a year long journey. The judge opened the door we walked in and stood to hear the verdict. I will cut to the chase....SHE APPROVED OUR ADOPTION OF LEX DANIEL COOK! I started to tear up but thought if I cried the judge may think something is wrong with me and change her mind.
We celebrated as much as me and Abby celebrate and hugged and thanked God for this awesome process. After we left the court we went to see Lex Daniel Cook and it was great knowing that he is now ours.
We could not have made it this far without the prayers and support of so many people. I could tell we had many people praying for us during our court hearing and thank you! It made a huge difference. We now wait 10 days for the court hearing to be finalized and then it is time to prep to come home. So it has been an emotional ride today and we both are slap tired! So if this blog made no since I am sorry. I would love to give more details but this blog is long enough already. God is good and without Him none of this would be possible.
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