Brian is Officially BRIAN ARLEY MIDDAUGH!

Introducing Brian Arley Middaugh! It is official. As of 0800 on May 21st, 2008, Brian is now officially adopted in the United States.

Here we are waiting for the certified copies of the final adoption decree. We left Wichita Falls at 0500 yesterday morning to head to Fort Worth so we could meet our lawyer at 0745. We made it in an hour and 45 minutes so we had a few minutes to spare. We met with the lawyer and she went over what to expect in the court room. We were the first case! The judge called us up to the bench and had Brian sit up on the front ledge so he could see him. We were all sworn in and then asked a few questions. Brian just smiled. You could tell he had no idea what was going on. He just answered yes when asked if having us as parents was in his best interest. The judge was so nice. I couldn't help but cry when they were asking us questions. I was so happy. We were back on the road by 0830. We stopped for some breakfast and were home by 1100. I wrote up a note to get Tiffany back in school.

We were originally planning on doing something in Dallas after the hearing but something better came up. Tiffany was going to be receiving an award at school. We had to have her back to school by 1:25. I am so proud of my little girl. She received an award for Student of the Month, Honor Roll for the first 3 marking periods and a Math award. I cried when I heard the math award. You see, last year, Tiffany had a lot of difficulty with math. SHe had to go to summer school for extra help. She is much more confident with her school work this year and I couldn't be prouder!!!!! She should get one more award when school is done and that is honor roll for the 4th marking period. They had to wait for school to end before saying who received that. School doesn't end until June 5th. Here is one of the pics of Tiffany getting her award!

I have to tell this story. Throughout the years, we have given Tiffany different nicknames. SHe has been called pumpkin, tiffbug, peanut, princess and boo. Our latest name for her has been Boo Bear. We have probably been calling her that for 3 years now. Well, Brian had his own take on it. At first, he was calling Tiffany, "Tiffa" but now, he has decided to call her Boo Berries. It is so cute especially with his spanish accent. Tiffany says she is embarrassed and doesn't want him to call her that but when you look at her, she just has this big smile across her face. It is like she doesn't want to admit that she likes the fact that her brother has a nickname for her. We told her to come up with a nickname for him and she wanted to call him "Melon Head" because his head is big. We told her she had to be nice so she is working on his nickname.