Paxton's Adoption Day

Monday June 21st was Paxton's adoption day. It was a special day! Paxton's adoption was at the Florence AZ court house. Our other kids adoptions were in Mesa. So this was new for us. Aaron's parents drove with us (my parents were out of town) we got to the court house a little early and the judge was running late. We hung out in the hall while the kids played with Grandpa and Grandma Ray and Aaron and I chatted a lot with our lawyer. The bailiff that was in the court room was an officer we know. His name is Eric Larson, he is in our ward and lives across the street from my sister Sara. I thought it was so cool that he happened to be there. When we finally got in the court room it was real big, it actually made me feel nervous. We sat at one table with our lawyer and our kids sat at the other. When the judge asked questions we talked into the microphone. Once all the required questions were asked the judge said he wanted to talk to the kids, which isn't required. He asked Hayden a question and Hayden just grabbed that microphone to talk to him back which made us laugh. The judge asked the kids to walk up to his desk. He then was talking to them so quite we couldn't even hear what they were talking about. I guess he was asking our kids their favorite places to eat. He then ordered us to take the kids to Peter Piper Pizza to celebrate and play games (Hayden's request) and Emmie wanted Chik fil'a. He also let them get some candy from his desk. It was so cute and funny and I thought it was so nice of the judge to do that for the kids and let them feel so involved. They loved it. So in the end Paxton was an official Ray! We were all so happy. We just love this little guy so much!!!!







Afterwards we went to dinner to celebrate and Adam, Sara and their kids came to join us.