Court was a success!

Samantha Rose Stoesz   12/29/11

Our family is now the Stoesz EIGHT!  We are so happy to introduce to everyone our beautiful daughter, Samantha Rose Stoesz!  Anna choose to change her name to Samantha Rose and we honored her request.  I can't imagine the mix of emotions Samantha must have been feeling when she found out yesterday that court was today.  Her life living in the House of Joy for the past 7 years is about to change forever.  We are so grateful for the love and care Samantha has received from Nicoli and the loving staff.

We have been wanting to adopt Samantha since we met her back in the summer of 2010.  In God's perfect timing, we hope to complete the remaining process and be back home in about 3 weeks.

After court we stopped by Samantha's school to catch a glimpse of the school play on their last day of class.  Samantha showed us around, introduced us to her teachers, and maintained a courageous smile while saying goodbye to her friends.  What a leap of faith and incredible strength we saw our beautiful daughter display today.

On the way home from a very busy day in Fastiv, Clarke and I ran to the underground subway market to buy dinner and 7 roses for Samantha.  One from every member of her new family.  One from Clarke, Kris, Amanda, Alex, Rhya, Luke and Natalie.  Samantha is our sweet beautiful flower that will bloom in our family forever!

Thank you all so much for all your prayers for our adoption.  We all feel covered in answered prayers and are so grateful.  What a blessing it is to become parents again.