IT'S OFFICIAL!

Happy Gotcha Day E and A Robertson: July 26th, 2010!

It's official, the kiddos are Robertsons! Thanks so much for your prayers and support! We're so excited!

Special thanks to our families, who have been so supportive... even from such a distance. Thanks to the Rockwell's and Howell's for supporting us by babysitting regularly and being our substitute family out here. Thanks to K Peterson for always being willing to help out and support when we need it most.

Thanks to ARBC for ALL your UNBELIEVABLE support! This church has been such a blessing for us, especially being so far from home. You all accepted E and A with open arms and have made them feel so very welcome and loved. We feel very supported and loved here and we thank you so much for that.

Thanks to everyone else for your support as well. We love you all.

Josh, Heidi, E, & A ROBERTSON!

Gotcha Day Party!

Everyone is welcome to join us for a celebration of E & A's adoption! Monday, July 26th from 5p-7p at our home. Just a casual party... grilling hot dogs and brats to celebrate the end of a long process and the beginning of a new "official" family!

Please do not bring gifts! Let your presence be your presents!

If you DO plan to attend, please RSVP to this post by commenting:

-click comments underneath this post

-then click anonymous

-type your comment along with your name!

-click "publish your comment"

Thanks everyone! Don't worry about rsvp-ing no's... God Bless and we hope to see you there!

Josh, Heidi, E & A

ADOPTION DATE SET!!!!

HEY! We have a date set!!!! The adoption will be on July 26th! Yay! We're so excited to finally have a date set!

I will put another update on here to let you know when the big celebration PARTY will be!!! Thanks for your prayers and support!!!

Josh, Heidi, E, A!

REALLY?!?!

Just wanted to let you all know (because we mostly expected to have the date set by now) that we DO NOT have a date set yet! Ahhh!

We had our usual visit from the kiddos' caseworker last week and she informed us that our background checks sat on someone's desk at social services for THREE WEEKS before they sent them in. Which means, we're officially three weeks further behind than we thought... which means it could be that long before we even have a date set.

We're completely frustrated but not surprised. This is so typical of the system. We will keep you all updated.

Josh, Heidi, E, A

Adoption date nearing!!!!

Hello All!

Just wanted to update you about where we are with getting a date set for adoption... As of yesterday, Josh and I have officially done ALL we can to finalize all the pre-adoption paperwork! Now, we just have to WAIT (love it) for everyone else we've been working with to do their jobs as quickly as possible! We're really hoping for late June or early July to work out for the adoption!

I also wanted to let everyone know that as soon as the date is set, we will be planning a HUGE party for anyone and everyone who wants to come and help us celebrate! This is a huge deal to us and to the kids. Hey MN people... that means you too! We'll have family in town so our house is full... but I'm not even kidding when I say that we can EASILY turn our huge backyard into a pretty awesome campground for anyone else who wants to come and help us celebrate! We even have a fire pit and a pool! :) I'm serious! Keep it in the back of your minds!

Hope all is well with you and... trust me... I will let everyone know ASAP when the date is set!

Heidi, Josh, E, A

Light at the end of the tunnel!

Hello Friends and Family!

I hope you're all doing well! Life for us has been crazy busy! I'm so incredibly thankful that I'm feeling so good now that I'm in the second half of my second trimester because otherwise I don't know how I'd survive the "organized chaos" of our lives! Even being as organized as I am, the amount of paperwork and appointments that have been required of me in the recent months can get really overwhelming. If E gets a small scratch from climbing a tree in the backyard, that requires two phone calls and 3 pages of forms to fill out! So those "little" things plus caseworker visits, court phone calls, A's hearing tests, A's eye appointments, A's therapy, E's preschool screening, E's ortho follow up appointments from his leg, and much more.... it's a lot to deal with! Please pray for my own diligence as this week has been a lot of appointments and next week will be worse. Thankfully, I've hired a lovely girl from our youth group to come over for an hour or so next week to give me a chance to make phone calls during the day and fill out some paperwork without being interrupted.

We feel so blessed to have these kiddos and are really excited to be nearing the end of our 6 month waiting period... it's over on June 9th! I had a court phone call with the judge, the kiddos' lawyer, and their caseworker today and they said they're really hoping to finalize in late June! Woo hoo! Now that we're nearing this much-anticipated day... more and more paperwork is filing in for us! Haha... it never ends! It's all worth it though and we can't wait to make these kiddos official Robertsons! :)

We also had a friend take some family pictures for us, which I have posted along with this note. I hope you enjoy! Oh, and little baby girl Robertson is in her 26th week now! She is moving and kicking and punching like crazy and I'm loving getting to feel it. Josh and I love to WATCH her moving around in there... She's certainly active!

Thanks for you prayers and support... we love you and miss you Minnesotans!

Heidi, Josh, E, A, and baby girl

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