Party Time!!

What would adoption week be without a party??!!

We held it at the indoor preschool playground of the main campus of our church.

We chose a Superman theme, "Superman was adopted too!"

excuse his black legs and feet, he was crawling all over the playground!

We all wore Superman shirts!

Our precious friend and Sunday school teacher Sabrina, made David's cake.

David was having a blast playing while waiting for his guests to arrive.

We had a lot of pizza, cake, cupcakes and drinks.

Savana playing with David.

We also rented an obstacle course bouncer for the older kids to play on.

Chris shooting hoops with Papa John

Grandma Dawn and PawPaw Roland loving on David

We were so blessed by the many friends and family who came and celebrated with us.

checking out Mr. Robert

hanging out with our sweet neighbors Brian and Teresa 

The kids had a blast on the bouncer!!

David enjoyed all the perks of the party including pizza crust.

sweet Quinton

Chris and his best bud Nicholas

GG and David playing

Funny story, I forgot a knife to cut the cake so James used his pocket knife! Don't worry it was clean.

More fun playing....

This is our sweet friend Brittany Myers who is always behind the camera in our family pictures but I was glad to take this one. We are blessed by her love for our family.

Brittany and her husband Andy and daughter Henley.

We really had a great evening of fellowship and food with our family, church family, neighbors and friends. The kids had a blast playing and it was just a great celebration.
David was blessed with more gifts that night and we opened them once we got home. He sure has been spoiled these last few weeks.

It's not everyday you get to celebrate an adoption and we sure made the most of it!

Making it Offical

Finally, the big day of adoption week arrived... Thursday morning & court!!!

I still can not wrap my mind around the fact that God answered a prayer we had been praying for at least four years. James and I kept looking at each other and saying things like "This is it" "We are finally here!"

That precious little baby boy we bought home from the hospital almost a year ago was about to officially be a Lis. 

No more foster care paperwork or home visits, it was all coming to a glorious close. 

Once again our precious friend Brittany Myers took all the pictures that morning. She totally blessed us by coming to court and capturing the day for us. We will always be able to look back at these pictures with joy! 

Here we are just hanging out waiting to go in the courtroom 

my mom sitting with us 

James' dad and stepmom Dawn

The tall cowboy is our lawyer, Mr. Hamker

playing with Chris' mohawk

getting loving from GG and Papa John

Judge Woodburn has been on David's case from the start, he truly had his best interest at heart every time the case came in front of him

 We were the first case of the day and we took up a good bit of the courtroom. I have to mention that everyone talked about Christopher and James Henry's mohawks including the judge! They were a big hit.

 It was time, but wait! James had taken James Henry to the restroom just a minute before the judge came in. We held up our own adoption with a bathroom break! That is real life when you have children!

I love that when they swore James and I in, all of the kids raised their right hand as well!

 What we dreamed, waited, prayed and planned for for years only took about 10 minutes to complete!

here we are with our lawyer and the judge

coming out of the courtroom, emotional and celebrating! 

 We were joined that morning by our Pastor, David's adoption worker from CPS, my mom, James' dad and stepmom, two members of our Buckner family, James' mom and stepdad, our lawyer and Brittany (taking pictures)

more celebrating and snuggles and hugs

 One of the most special moments that morning is when we held hands and our pastor prayed for our family and for David. It was such a blessing and I am thankful for this picture and all of the people in it.

first official family picture as 6!