It's Official

March 3rd 2009 the official day Sarah became a member of our family. Once again we met in the hotel lobby at 9 am and boarded a bus to go to the Civil Affairs Office. We were taken to the same room where we first met Sarah. Each family began the formal process of adoption. We were taken to a room and had our picture taken with Sarah, we were then taken to another room where we were interviewed and asked if we were happy with Chu Chao Juan aka Sarah, if we promised to love her and never abandon her or abuse her, why we wanted to adopt from China and then the interview was completed. We signed some paperwork and Sarah became officially ours. Our little group of four families cheered and clapped to finally have reached our goal, we headed back to the hotel where we would met up again in 2 hours to shop at the local Walmart to buy supplies for our babies and then later in the evening we would celebrate by having a group dinner at a local Chinese Resturant.