TERMINATION FINALIZED!!!!!!!!!!

(Huge exhaling breath......)

IT'S OVER! The termination hearing is over!!!! At exactly 10:30 AM (Arizona time), the judge ordered complete termination from named biological mother and named biological father AND John Doe as a result of no response on, before or during the publication!!!!! YIPPEEEEE! The affidavit was in the judges' hands in court so that allowed us to complete it today!!!!!!!!

TRULY, there are no words to express the joy we (Benjamin & I) felt this morning hearing the judge order this this morning! Benjamin even thought possibly more relieving than the actual adoption hearing! And I think I might agree. We've never gotten to take part in a termination hearing of any of our dear children, we've only heard days later from other sources they've been terminated! We were literally SCREAMING praises to the Lord as we drove out of that courthouse parking lot!!!!!

It too was interesting that the judge actually ordered that Chavalah (Mariela) stay placed for adoption in the "foster placement" home, which was something we'd never heard. Usually every case is just "severance and adoption" status, but it doesn't guarantee YOU are the ones to keep the child, even though you've had them from day one of placement! That was something a little extra special and music to our ears as we heard him basically order that she not be removed and placed in a different adoptive home. That was a scare we had to go through with Ezra's termination. We were guaranteed to get her.

So, where do we go from here!?

We will be contacted, very shortly, by an adoption worker (same one we had for Ezra), to start the paperwork process for Chavalah. We won't have near as many "detours" to take this time around, there still may be one, nothing is guaranteed, but with Ezra, everything took longer as we didn't have our adoption license (we do now effective still for another year), we also didn't have a copy of Ezra's birth certificate, and social worker has a copy of Chavalah's already, so several more things are in place already that weren't for Ezra's adoption process!

Please be praying for a smooth adoption process!! There is lots to be done from now until our adoption hearing! We will keep you posted as much as we can with how things are doing!

AGAIN! Thank you for all your love and prayers held up for our family! I'm overwhelmed by all your love!