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July 9, 2009

It’s official!

As of today, Ethan Clarke Hillman is officially stuck with us! Hip hip, Hooray! Here we are at the courthouse after the adoption was finalized. We’re thrilled to be a family of four (although we’ve felt that way for a long time, it’s nice to make it legal)! We can hardly wait for Saturday!

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June 25, 2009

Finally Finalizing!!

We got a call from our attorney this morning and we’ll be finalizing Ethan’s adoption on July 9th! He will be sealed to us in the Jordan River Temple on July 11th! I can’t believe this is actually happening. We couldn’t be happier!

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May 6, 2009

Early Mother’s Day

Great news! We had another court date today. Peanut’s birth mother’s rights were terminated and we were approved by the judge to become his adoptive family! We are absolutely thrilled! We will be busy gathering paperwork and documentation over the next few weeks and will hopefully have this finalized by July. Hip, hip! Thank you for all of your prayers […]

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March 30, 2009

Cutie Sighting

You’ll never guess who we just ran into at the store! Our sweet little Cutie! I know it should make me happy that when he was a little nervous (because of the loud, surprised woman he thinks he remembers from somewhere getting in his face and wanting to eat him up. Yes, that’s what I did.) he looked to his […]

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March 3, 2009

Cookie Party

Last night both sides of our family joined us for a “Goodbye to Cutie Cookie Party”. It was a fun night, filled with lots of yummy treats, visiting with our favorite people and celebrating the time we were able to spend with our Cutie. Thanks to all who came, and for all of the thoughts and well-wishes we’ve received today. […]

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February 24, 2009

For Cutie

Here is a video I’ve been working on. I picked the song “You Are My Sunshine” because it’s one of the songs I have sung to Cutie almost every time I put him to bed. Now listening to that song with these photos it seems a little melodramatic. Please don’t take it that way. We just love that song! http://picasaweb.google.com/hillman.heidi/Movies?authkey=C3E7ns11hQw#5306410954431923426 […]

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February 19, 2009

Harder than we thought…

“If you’re listening, if you’re awake to the poignant beauty of the world, your heart breaks regularly. In fact, your heart is made to break; its purpose is to burst open again and again so that it can hold ever more wonders.” –Andrew Harvey This quote is posted on the wall of the room where we received our foster care […]

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February 19, 2009

I have good news, and I have good news…

We had another court date today and here is the good news: We are planning to adopt Peanut! (I realize that this is not very different from the last update you heard about him. But the court system works slowly sometimes and nothing is definite until you sign the papers. We are probably 98% sure this will happen. Good odds!) […]

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January 16, 2009

One step closer!

The short version: We had court yesterday. It looks VERY likely that we’ll be able to adopt Peanut! We are so excited and have already started calling him a different name (I didn’t like his original name at all). We’ll know more on February 18th. Cutie’s case is a little different and we still don’t know which way it will […]

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