Welcome Home Corbin XOXO

Well, it is official. Corbin is now legally ours. Everything was a success. Now comes the process of changing everything over. Like Social Security card, doctors, etc. So the day went down like this: Our adoption hearing started at about 11:35am and within 1the adoption was final. We had a few friends, my parents, and some of the people from the department of health & welfare that helped us get to this point. We took Riley and Natalie with us so we included them in the picture.

After the adoption hearing we went out to Tomato Street (a special thanks to my parents as they paid our portion of the bill), came home and had the open house. For the open house I ordered a cake with a monster truck because Corbin loves cars, trucks, etc. and had them write "welcome home Corbin". We wore Corbin out that he fell asleep while we ate lunch. Just to name a few of the gifts Corbin got (I was not expecting any gifts) My grandma Hjelm gave us some beautiful handmade blankets for the 2 kids and a fleece blanket for Riley (which he loves), Daniel's Allocation team from work sent a cute flower arrangement in an old fire truck, and his old team gave us a sweet, sweet card with this poem: (I have read this before and absolutely love it. It is so fitting for this day).

"Before you were conceived I wanted you!

Before you were born I loved you!

Before you were here an hour I would die for you!

This is the Miracle of Life!"

By: Maureen Hawkins

We owe a special thank you to Angel (for creating a very cute card), Amy, Denise, Brad, James, and Rich for the wonderful card and the entire Allocation Team for the fun flower arrangement. Thank you again.

It was such a blessing so share such a special experience with family. I am so grateful my parents took the time to come share this experience with me. We are also grateful for all those who came to the open house. We have waited 12 long years for this day and it has finally arrived. We now know why we took the leap of faith by moving up to North Idaho.

Corbin, you are such a special little boy, we love you so much. You are such a blessing to us. We are so excited to make you a part of our family forever.