Arianna is Home!

We were able to bring Arianna home on Thursday December 29th. That day was a total emotional rollar coaster. We were able to get a court date for that morning and had assumed that it would go smoothly and we would be able to be on our way home by noon...It wasn't that easy. The birth father, Tyson, came to the court house and wanted very much to be a father to Arianna. We were told there was nothing else for us to do but walk away...The Lord blessed us and touched Tyson's heart. He and his mother agreed to talk with us, and after an amazing conversation Tyson consented to the adoption. We were very touched by the love that he had for a daughter he had never met. We invited him and his family to the hospital to meet Arianna when we checked her out...

It was one of the most wonderful scenes I have ever witnessed. Arianna will now have the opportunity to know both her birth-mother and birth-father. I cannot think of a better beginning to this adoption. Miracles were worked and lives were changed.
Arianna is now home and we are figuring out how life is supposed to work. My family came down the visit and we invited all Ben's siblings over to meet her...Tomorrow will be the first "normal" day of our new life...we will see how it goes...