Today we finalized the adoption AGAIN....well for the state of Wyoming its final. This enables us to get a certified birth certificate. The dept of vital statistics wouldn't accept the Russian adoption certificate or his new Russian birth certificate as adoption proof, so we had to have the new adoption decree from a Wyoming court as proof. It was a very informal hearing held in the judge's chambers. I know the judge personally and our attorney both from working for the photographer, so it was really just a nice conversation. The judge mostly was interested in the process, how long, how tedious, how hard and time spent in Russia. After about 25 min of discussion, he asked for the decree and then asked "now you really want me to sign this...". All in jest, of course, we answered YES and it was done. The new decree will be filed here and we will fill out a form for the dept of vital statistics and we will have a new birth certificate for him.
Our morning started out with SNOW, it was quite the little blizzard we had going here. We even left early because visibility was sooo bad, the road had built up a bit with slush. We got about 6 miles from home and there was NOTHING for snow. We had thought it started out kind of like Siberia, but ended up just being a lot like Wyoming weather. Another neat little note, since we don't get to pick any court date, the first one was August 18 this one April 19. The first one, we didn't understand much of what was said, the translater did ok, but was still difficult, the second one, we understood every word and it was more of a conversation than an actual hearing. We had to dress up for both, but this one didn't even cause a bit of worry. The first one we were a bit nervous for, but this one no nerves at all.
Alan came and surprised us all, he brought his camera and took lots of pics of Brayden while he waited for us to get this over with, then a fam pic with the judge and attorney and then just a pic of us. I will post pics later, just wanted to get this much on here so you all would know what we were up to.
3 comments:
Congratulations AGAIN! Glad another hurdle is behind you! Looking forward to pictures of the big day! John & June
Congratulations again Leonhardt family. We are just starting the readoption process now. Looks like everything is going great in Wyoming and that Brayden is having a grand time. Ben and Sedona have also figured out how to open the refrigerator and love to do so while I am cooking. They point to different things and say "I want..." a far cry from the very quiet children they were a year ago. I love reading your blog...keep it up! :-)
Congratulations! That is so great. Loved the pics. Thanks!
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