Setencia Received!!!!

Today Monica and our lawyer went back to the courthouse and the judge for our case issued the setencia, which means that Gabriela is officially our daughter! We have had temporary parental rights here for the last 4 weeks but she is ours for good now!

Monica still doesn't have her cedula so we aren't ready to wrap up yet, we'll have to have it before we are able to get Gabriela's Colombian passport so we aren't rushing out of the country just yet and since Monday is a holiday here we will almost certainly be here through next week so we should get to meet another American/Colombian family that we have become good friends with from our Colombian Yahoo group who will be here on the 21st to adopt thier 2nd son on the 23rd.

We hadn't thought about it much other than wondering when it would happen, but there is some relief to receiving the setencia. It's official, she is now our daughter forever.

We'll try to post again tonight with a few pics from today, but for now we are off to Juan Valdez for coffee to celebrate!