Did someone say they wanted details?

We usually don't include many others on our little adoption journeys.
Adoption is hard.
I never know what I'll say if it doesn't work out.
It's always a really tough decision for me. To share or not to share.

This time we are taking a chance to share, because we are so excited and full of joy and it's hard to contain the excitement. Plus, we (meaning Us and Rin and her family) need all the prayers we can get. And in the end should "Rin" choose to parent... I know I have the best friends ever who would be there to support us.

But right now, that is the furthest thing from my mind.

Until I am ready to share her name with you, our sweet birth mom will go by Rin.

Rin and her mom have been working with LDSFS for a little over a month. As she was clicking through profiles online, she found ours and kept going to back to it. She decided she would like a face to face visit.

On the day before Thanksgiving we got a call from our LDSFS office telling us a little about her and that she would like to meet us. It was completely unexpected. We haven't been contacted for months and months. We wanted to tell everyone... but of course we secretly rejoiced that in 12 days we would meet Rin.

Well that day finally came. We were excited and nervous all at the same time. (really I felt like puking I was so nervous) When she arrived and we met her, all the nervousness went away (well most of it anyways - hee hee). She is beautiful and so cute. She has a one year old little boy who is cute and was so good the entire time.

As we sat and talked (for at least an hour), I said plenty of dumb things, lost all my words and sometimes just sat there not knowing what to say. But it was still a great hour. As we stood to leave, I hugged her mom and then Rin. After I hugged her she told us that she wants us to adopt her baby. There were tears in her eyes as she told us. I of course started sobbing and hugged her again. All of the case workers had just walked in the hall. (even our awesome case worker braved the crazy snow storm to drive 2.5 hours to be there) Of course there were no tissues in the room (how does that happen?!?!) so I rushed out to find some. You should have seen the case workers faces as I stepped into the hallway. They were all worried. "What happen? What did she say?" They were thinking the worst. Finally the note taker that sat in on the meeting (yep, it was basically a party in there) said, She just told them she wanted them to adopt her baby. I still don't think anyone understood what was going on, but at least we knew it was a happy cry! Her case worker rushed back in to talk to them. We talked to our case worker a little and as we left to leave, they were leaving as well. Rin told me she was sorry for making me cry. Definitely no apologies needed there.

We are hoping to get to be able to spend a little more time with her over the next few months. She is amazing, beautiful and perfect for us.

Baby boy - April 5th.

Thank you for all your words of congratulations and excitement. They mean the world to us. You guys are the reason I couldn't keep my excitement in anymore. I needed to let all my greatest friends know. Thank you for always being there in all our times of need and joy during this whole process.