A love story....

A couple of days ago I had the opportunity to see a wonderful couple finalize the legality of their adoption of their foster son.  He had been with them since he was 5 days old and is now over a year.  Many of us had prayed for this day and had seen the heartache and trials at times that they have endured in this quest.  They are a couple that makes the word family a wonderful word to actually see in real life.

They had never put a picture of his face on FB until that court date. They had not shared with anyone what his name would be.  When the judge asked them...what is his name?  They said... His name is Timothy Hyrum Iverson.

I loved that part of the proceedings.  Both Julianna and Phillip are fluent in ASL and when that brief interchange happened with the judge, I thought of Elizabeth and Zacharias and the naming of their son...

Luke 1:62-63
 62 And they made signs to his father, how he would have him called.

 63 And he asked for a ^awriting table, and wrote, saying, His name is John. And they marvelled all.

I also thought about Timothy of the NT and the love and tenderness of Paul's tutoring him.

1 Tim 4:12
12 Let no man ^adespise thy youth; but be thou an^bexample of the believers, in word, in ^cconversation, in charity, in spirit, in faith, in ^dpurity.

Next comes the Temple sealing and the big family party with lots of out of towners coming for the celebration and then his name and blessing.  Sharing this journey, as our Ward has been privy to do, has been exhilarating and inspiring!!  a privilege for sure!!

I love the pictures they put on FB.  following those are a couple of pictures I took. Enjoy!

The countdown started with this picture that had been posted for quite a while and even posted morning of...

Isn't that so cute/sweet/clever/tender the way they did that??

After things were all done.

None of the 4 above are my pictures and now I post mine and they are easily recognizable as mine!