<p align="center">Bottle before we headed in to the Judge’s Chambers</p>  <p><a href="/1DB25B0C4C9C4FF725BBC44D009EECCD22E13F05/images/2011/11/DSCN2704.jpg"><img style="background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; border-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; border-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px" title="DSCN2704" border="0" alt="DSCN2704" src="/1DB25B0C4C9C4FF725BBC44D009EECCD22E13F05/images/2011/11/DSCN2704_thumb.jpg" width="354" height="266" /></a></p>  <p align="center">Waiting to go see the Judge</p>  <p><a href="/1DB25B0C4C9C4FF725BBC44D009EECCD22E13F05/images/2011/11/DSCN2713.jpg"><img style="background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; border-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; border-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px" title="DSCN2713" border="0" alt="DSCN2713" src="/1DB25B0C4C9C4FF725BBC44D009EECCD22E13F05/images/2011/11/DSCN2713_thumb.jpg" width="354" height="266" /></a></p>  <p align="center">Walking down to the Judge’s Chambers</p>  <p><a href="/1DB25B0C4C9C4FF725BBC44D009EECCD22E13F05/images/2011/11/DSCN2716.jpg"><img style="background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; border-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; border-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px" title="DSCN2716" border="0" alt="DSCN2716" src="/1DB25B0C4C9C4FF725BBC44D009EECCD22E13F05/images/2011/11/DSCN2716_thumb.jpg" width="304" height="385" /></a></p>  <p align="center">Minutes away from making Sweet Pea officially ours!</p>  <p><a href="/1DB25B0C4C9C4FF725BBC44D009EECCD22E13F05/images/2011/11/DSCN2721.jpg"><img style="background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; border-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; border-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px" title="DSCN2721" border="0" alt="DSCN2721" src="/1DB25B0C4C9C4FF725BBC44D009EECCD22E13F05/images/2011/11/DSCN2721_thumb.jpg" width="354" height="266" /></a></p>  <p align="center">Promising to tell the truth and nothing but the truth!</p>  <p><a href="/1DB25B0C4C9C4FF725BBC44D009EECCD22E13F05/images/2011/11/DSCN2729.jpg"><img style="background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; border-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; border-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px" title="DSCN2729" border="0" alt="DSCN2729" src="/1DB25B0C4C9C4FF725BBC44D009EECCD22E13F05/images/2011/11/DSCN2729_thumb.jpg" width="404" height="236" /></a></p>  <p align="center">The Judge signing the Adoption Decree! After he signed he told us adoptions are his favorite because he loves seeing families come together. The only thing he asked was that we not put his picture on the internet or Facebook.</p>  <p><a href="/1DB25B0C4C9C4FF725BBC44D009EECCD22E13F05/images/2011/11/DSCN2732.jpg"><img style="background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; border-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; border-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px" title="DSCN2732" border="0" alt="DSCN2732" src="/1DB25B0C4C9C4FF725BBC44D009EECCD22E13F05/images/2011/11/DSCN2732_thumb.jpg" width="354" height="280" /></a></p>  <p align="center">Sweet Pea has been our little baby girl since we first laid eyes on her, but today, in the court of law, Sweet Pea was recognized as our daughter as if she had been born unto us. </p>  <p align="center">This always reminds me of my adoption into the family of God. I was born a sinner, but, in God’s great love and mercy for me, He has taken me in and adopted me to be His heir. </p>  <p align="center">Sweet Pea is now officially and legally our heir, along with her big sister, Little Bug.</p>  <p align="center"><a href="/1DB25B0C4C9C4FF725BBC44D009EECCD22E13F05/images/2011/11/DSCN2734.jpg"><img style="background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; border-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; border-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px" title="DSCN2734" border="0" alt="DSCN2734" src="/1DB25B0C4C9C4FF725BBC44D009EECCD22E13F05/images/2011/11/DSCN2734_thumb.jpg" width="354" height="328" /></a></p>  <p align="center">“Adoption Day” is a special day. It is the culmination of God’s miracle that has brought our lives together with Sweet Pea, and her birth mother, Melody, forever. It is a time to remember and reflect on our journey to #2. </p>  <p align="center">Today we remember that God is a God who has plans for our lives that are bigger than we can imagine.</p>  <p align="center">Today we remember that God is in control as He so clearly demonstrated during the events of our journey to #2.</p>  <p align="center">Today we remember God’s faithfulness once again because it is through Him this day was possible.</p>  <p><a href="/1DB25B0C4C9C4FF725BBC44D009EECCD22E13F05/images/2011/11/DSCN2740.jpg"><img style="background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; border-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; border-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px" title="DSCN2740" border="0" alt="DSCN2740" src="/1DB25B0C4C9C4FF725BBC44D009EECCD22E13F05/images/2011/11/DSCN2740_thumb.jpg" width="436" height="281" /></a></p>  <p align="center">To God be the Glory, great things He has done … again!</p>  <p><img style="display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto" title="100_6255" border="0" alt="100_6255" src="http://lh3.ggpht.com/_4nLJV4aVDWo/Sp51EIOA1QI/AAAAAAAABN8/Iqzaqm3GgLI/100_6255%5B1%5D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="404" height="303" /></p>  <p align="center">Little Bug’s “Adoption Day” on September 1, 2009</p>  <p align="center"><a href="/1DB25B0C4C9C4FF725BBC44D009EECCD22E13F05/images/2011/11/DSCN2752.jpg"><img style="background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px" title="DSCN2752" border="0" alt="DSCN2752" src="/1DB25B0C4C9C4FF725BBC44D009EECCD22E13F05/images/2011/11/DSCN2752_thumb.jpg" width="404" height="304" /></a></p>  <p align="center">Officially our Sweet Pea!</p>