Today was our day, OCT 14, 2009, Jalena Shupavu and Hunter Minayo became Jalena Shupavu Neema Rubin and David Uhuru Rubin. There is still more paperwork to be done in the courts, but I don't have to be present and neither do the children, which is wonderful! Then we move onto the US immigration side of things to get home. We hope to make it home in time for Thanksgiving. My Visa runs out before Thanksgiving, so we really hope we can make things happen by then to be home as a FAMILY for the holidays!!! We will keep you all updated in the weeks to come as far as our final departure comes closer. The pictures from today unfortunately came out super blurry.
The kids were angels from 11 am until 4 :30 when we finally got to go in and see the judge, but as soon as David walked into the court room he totally lost it until 5:45 when we walked out of the room with our orders. We then went out and celebrated with Karen a good friend here over some chinese food. We did a cheers with our drinks and of course the kids got lollipops at the end of dinner and when we came home they were doing a cheers with their lollipops! Jalena just kept saying, "this is our celebration day!" David continued to be a madman in the restaurant, however I could have cared less, I figured he deserved it after sitting still for five hours! Got no sleep the night before court and we are all just exhausted, so need to sign off, but all of you who have alreayd sent your well wishes, thank you so much and we will be in touch and even better, we will see you all VERY soon!!!
Lots of love,
Josh, Katie, Jalena and David Rubin
PS Pictures to follow, the connection was interrupted when trying to upload, but I need to get to bed.
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Congratulations Rubin Family! We can't wait to meet the newest additions!!
So happy for you and love reading your blog.
Such awesome news. The journey has certainly been amazing to this point. I will continue to keep my fingers crossed that the process is smooth. :)
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