We got the email this afternoon announcing that we had passed court, meaning that in Ethiopia, she's legally a Magruder!! The jury's still out on a name...All children come home using the adoptive father's first name, so on her passport it will say Mastewal Shannon Magruder, and we'll still have several months before we have to decide for sure on things like names and birthdates. Our tentative Embassy appointment in Ethiopia will be on February 5th, so we'll be leaving Feb. 1st and be returning Feb. 10th.
Thanks so much for all of your encouragement and your prayers....we've also been overwhelmed by how God has used financial gifts from friends, family, and total strangers to bring our daughter home to her Forever Family!
29 comments:
Hooray!
Yeah yeah yeah!! So glad to hear you great news! She is just adorable! I am so thrilled for you guys!
Congratulations Gretchen and family! I was thrilled to read the great news on yahoo. I'm looking forward to reading all about your trip and seeing more photos of this adorable girl.
Yahoo!!!
Yahoo!!!!!!!!!!
WOOOOOOO HOOOOO!!!
welcome sweet beautiful girl.
I AM SO HAPPY FOR YOU AND YOURS!! Congrats, congrats, congrats!
oh, She is so beautiful!!! I am so happy for you and your whole family. What a wonderful way to begin the new year!
hugs to you--
annie and maya
What a beautiful smile! She will bring you so much joy... Congrats ;0)
YEA!!!!! I am so over the moon happy for you!! I bet you can't wait to give her a huge hug!! She is precious!!
Can I hear an AMEN! Fabulous!
A nickle says that you are going to be told her birthdate is Christmas. Everyone is born at christmas:)
Peanut has such a sweet smile! Cannot wait to see a picture of all five of you together!
Oh I am so happy! Tears of joy for you and her. I just loved the time I spent with her.
Yeah , I'm so happy for you guys!! I can't wait to meet my new niece..
Congratulations! :) :)
We can't wait to meet her!
Congrats, how exciting, what a cutie pie....
Congratulations! She is so adorable!
I just realised that our little Sweetpea was wearing that same shirt in the pics we got when we made it through court last year.
http://peachtreewheelers.blogspot.com/2008/04/sweetpea.html
just thought I'd share... I am so happy for your newly expanded family!
Congratulations!!!!
Praise the Lord!!! And, you can post pictures too - how wonderful!
Bethany
yay!! we are so excited for you too!!! so crazy!! hope to meet you soon...if our dates stay the same!
congrats!
Yeah, how exciting!
Congratulations!
Suzanne Stem and family
Hooray - how exciting for you! It is so great to see so many children united with their forever families...
Awesome!
Congratulations!
Julie
Congratulations!!! She is too cute!!!!
Oh, my! So, so beautiful! Congratulations! So very excited for you!
Amazing! I am unbelievably happy for you guys!
Wonderful!!!! So excited for you guys! She is so sweet!
Laura
She is so cute!!
We also had a grant through Lifesong.
Our agency wouldn't allow us to fund raise or post pictures on our blog until our son, Abel is home. They said the Et. government frownd on that, but I see LOTS of people that do it. Either way, they have been great.
Congratulations!
Your blog is so pretty!
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