It has been a while since we posted anything here, but the reason is really good news - having a baby in the house takes up all of our time.
So here's the short story - we scrambled to come up with the required funding and also to get the interstate paperwork done so that we could legally take our new baby from Georgia to Colorado. The paperwork came in just in time for us to make travel arrangements before Thanksgiving. The funding fell in to place as well (a sincere thank you to all who helped in this endeavor) . We flew to Atlanta on Tuesday, Nov 24. We had dinner that evening with the family who has been caring for Ryan (his name is Ryan Samuel Patrick Ricks) since he was discharged from the hospital. They are a wonderful family and we stayed rather late talking with them.
We got up Wednesday morning (Nov 25) and were at the adoption agency for a 9:00 AM appointment. The foster family brought Ryan to the agency at that same time. They dropped him off and then left to travel to extended family for Thanksgiving. We signed the papers, paid the money, and left the agency. The adoptive placement was now official. We had a lot of time before our return flight, and we spent the last two hours of that waiting at the terminal. Our flight landed at 8:30 PM and we were home by 11:00 PM.
Everything went very smoothly, and we all had so much to be thankful for on Thursday.
Here are some photos from placement day:
