Welcome. You’re probably here because of Bridget!
We are the Graves family and we adopted Bridget Irmgard Pagan-Etnyre, a process we stared in January of 2021 . We finally got her home, through a war torn battle in May of 2022. Her name is now Briella “Brizzy” Claire Graves.
This is her story…
“Bridget” was supposed to be an American.
She was born to a surrogate mother from Ukraine at 25 weeks. Her twin died after 6 days. When her American parents learned of her special needs they decided not to take her. She was in a hospital and now an orphanage in Ukraine.
God has it on our hearts to adopt Bridget. We completed all the paper work and were able to visit her in December of 2021, when we officially registered to be her parents. We were supposed to have court on 02/10/2022. That didn’t happen because the judge got Covid-19 and was hospitalized. We were then supposed to hear news on 02/25/2022. Unfortunately, the Russians invaded and started a war on 02/24/2022.
We were able to go to Ukraine, though Poland, in April of 2022. We got home in May of 2022 and have been working to make the transition to our family as easy as possible for her.