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Tuesday, February 1, 2011

February 1st - Court Date

Well here it is - finally a post about going to court to finalize the adoption. Which also means we can formally reveal our little man's name online. No more "BJ". So, announcing

Brek Julian Aaron Jensen

Going to court was exciting and not a big deal all at the same time. We only had Joe's mom come and join us. We saved the real celebrating for another month when we would be sealed in the temple (more on that to come in a later post.)

Anyway, since there were so few of us we were back in the Judge's chambers. Our judge was so enamored with Brek that she didn't pay any attention to anything that was being said. Joe and I were not prepared for all of the legal jargon that actually took place. We were put under oath, our lawyer "presented evidence to the judge" and things like that. And seriously, the judge just made goo-goo eyes and faces at Brek the whole time and didn't catch a word that was said. We were impressed that our judge had actually read our files beforehand, so she knew little facts about us and our family. We thought that was cool.
We thought it was funny our judge stood so far away from us in the picture.
The Jensen Family
Grandma Jensen took us out to breakfast afterwards to celebrate. And Brek was all tuckered out.

Brek was of course the charmer and he got TONS of comments on how cute he was in his suit. He really liked wearing it. We actually showed him the suit a couple days beforehand and he was squealing with delight. He knew he looked good. I didn't get any good pictures of him from that day, except from the picture studio because after court we went and had his 6 month pictures taken. So this is a picture of a picture, but you get the idea:
Yep, he's a stud.

We love our little man and are so happy he's a part of our family!