Proud to be an American!

Final Adoption Day - February 6, 2007

Look at ME!!!!!!

We have been waiting for some very important papers for quite some time now... and finally they arrived! On Friday, May25th we got a notice in the mail to pick up a Certified Packet. Naturally, we didn't get to the post office that day, or the next... Monday was a Holiday...you get the picture. So on Wednesday (May 30th) when I got the "Final Notice" in the mail... I turned the car around and headed out to the Post Office. We got there at 4:25pm, just in the nick of time. The envelope was addressed to William McCaleb Hanks... in care of W. Tim Hanks. I was so excited. Too bad, I forgot the camera. The lady at the counter handed McCaleb this big brown envelope and he smiled the whole way back to the car. He couldn't wait to get home and open the envelope for the camera... so we tore into it to find his Citizenship papers had FINALLY arrived! Yippee! We can now get a passport and he can travel back to Gautemala with us to bring Sara home! What a great day! And he is so proud of the fact that he got his own packet of important papers in the mail.

On a side note... I finally got about 8 rolls of film developed! (shame...) Here is a photo from McCaleb's Adoption Day in Bourbon County Circuit Court, February 6th,2007. Judge Isaacs was the judge for the girls case, as well (although we had the chicken pox scare then... so they didn't attend their hearing). Also shown is our friend, attorney and fellow Guat-adoptive father, Jimmie Orr.