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I, Mirna Orellana, Sworn Translator from Spanish into English and vice-versa duly authorized by Guatemalan laws, UNDER

LEGAL OATH do hereby CERTIFY: That I had at sight a public deed regarding the ADOPTION LEGALIZATION OF THE MINOR RAYMOND CASTELLANOS GEREZ written on special official notarial paper, issued in Spanish which 1 faithfully translate into English and reads:--------------NUMBER FIFTY-SIX (56). ADOPTION LEGALIZATION DEED OF THE MINOR RAYMOND CASTELLANOS GEREZ. In the City of Guatemala on Marc thirty, two thousand and nine, BEFORE ME. ARMANDO URIEL GARCIA SOLIS, Notary, it appears Licenciado FELICIANO LOPEZ CHAVEZ, who will be called the ATTORNEY OF THE ADOPTIVE PARENTS in the development of this document, who is sixty years of age, married, a Lawyer and Notary, a Guatemalan, citizen of this domicile. He identifies himself with his Guatemalan Identification document order number G dash seven (G-7) and record number three thousand and nine hundred and sixty-eight (3,968), issued by the Municipal Mayor of Santa Lucia Utatlan, Municipality of the Department of Solola, who acts in representation of Mr and Mrs GINA C. BUTLER AND ANDREW G. BUTLER, who will be called the ADOPTIVE PARENTS in the development of this document. They are also known by the following names ANDREW GEOFFREY BUTLER, ANDREW BUTLER, ANDY G. BUTLER, ANDY BUTLER AND A. BUTLER; and the second one is also known by the following names GINA ANN CIARALLI, GINA A. CIARALLI, GINA VIARALLI BUTLER, GINA CIARALLI AMANN, GINA C. AMANN AND GINA A. CIARALLI BUTLER; Such representation is supported by the first certified copy of the public deed number ONE HUNDRED FIFTEEN (115), issued in the City of Guatemala on April three, year two thousand and eight by the undersigned notary, which is duly registered in the General File of Official Records, Electronic Registry of Powers of Attorney of the Supreme Court under number ELEVEN THOUSAND FIVE HUNDRED SEVENTY-ONE (11,571) of the registration number ONE (1) of the power of attorney ONE HUNDRED FORTY-TWO THOUSAND SEVEN HUNDRED AND FIVE DASH E (142,705-E), dated April eleven, year two thousand and eight, which contains the REVOCATORY OF A SPECIAL POWER OF

ATTORNEY AND APPOINTMENT OF A NEW POWER OF ATTORNEY granted by the ADOPTIVE PARENTS on January twenty-seven, two thousand and eight in the City of Orlando, State of Florida, United States of America. The another party, Miss ALICIA LORENA DOMINGUEZ CORDON also appears. She is twenty-two years of age, single, a Pre-School Teacher, Guatemalan, of this domicile who identifies with herself with the Guatemalan Identification Document order number A dash one (A-l) and record number sixty-six thousand and two hundred and three (66,203) issued by the Municipal Mayor of the Village of Chinautla, Municipality of the Department of Guatemala,, who appears in representation of Mrs. MANUELA ALEJANDRA CASTELLANOS GEREZ, who is the NATURAL MOTHER of the minor RAYMOND CASTELLANOS GEREZ. She supports her representation with the first certified copy of (lie public deed number ONE HUNDRED THREE (103) authorized in this city on March twenty-eight, year two thousand and eight by the undersigned notary. This document is duly registered in the General File of Official Records, Powers of Attorney Electronic Registry of the Supreme Court under number THIRTEEN THOUSAND AND FORTY-SIX (13,046); registered in record number ONE (I) of the Power of Attorney number ONE HUNDRED FORTY-THREE THOUSAND SIX HUNDRED NINETY-NINE DASH E (143699-E) dated April twenty-four, year two thousand and eight. As a notary, 1 attest to have had at sight the aforesaid related documentation and that according to the law and the best of my knowledge, the representation performed by Mr. FELICIANO LOPEZ CHAVEZ and Miss ALICIA LORENA DOMINGUEZ CORDON is ample enough to grant this document. The appearing persons certify to me to be of the personal data supplied and to be in their free exercise of their civil rights and orally and in Spanish they declare to come to grant the document of ADOPTION LEGALIZATION OF THE MINOR RAYMOND CASTELLANOS GEREZ. Therefore, we proceed in the following way: FIRST: Liccnciado FELICIANO LOPEZ CHAVEZ declares that he has required professional services of the undersigned notary, to issue this public deed of Adoption Legalization of the minor RAYMOND CASTELLANOS GEREZ, in virtue of the Notary CARLOS ENRIQUE ZAMORA cannot legally issue this public deed in his

Notarial file, therefore, in the quality he acts, he requires the undersigned Notary to issue this public deed SECOND: Licenciado FELICIANO LOPEZ CHAVEZ declares that, through the Special and Judicial Power of Attorney with Representation granted by his grantors, he substituted the previous attorney, OSMANI PALENCIA ARCINIEGA, who acted through the Special and Judicial Power of Attorney contained in the Public Deed number THIRTEEN (13), authorized in this City on February eight, two thousand and seven by the Notary DAVID EUGENIO DE PAZ NEGREROS. Such document is duly registered in the General File of Official Records, Powers of Attorney Electronic Registry of the Supreme Court under number SIX THOUSAND AND FOUR HUNDRED AND FORTY (6,440); registered in record number ONE (1) of the Power of Attorney number ONE HUNDRED AND THREE THOUSAND AND SEVEN HUNDRED AND NINETY-THREE DASH E (103,793-E) dated February fourteen, year two thousand and eight Such power of attorney is included in the process adoption file of the minor MERCI ESTELA CARDONA LEMUS. THIRD: Licenciado FELICIANO LOPEZ CHAVEZ declares that, before the professional services of the Notary, DAVID EUGENIO DE PAZ NEGREROS, Licenciado OSMANI PALENCIA ARCINIEGA started, on April two, two thousand and seven, the VOLUNTARY PROCESS FOR ADOPTION IN NOTARIAL FORM according to the Regulating Law of Notarial Steps of Voluntary Jurisdiction with the purpose to work the adoption of the minor RAYMOND CASTELLANOS GEREZ by declaring that the minor's birth date was on September thirteen, two thousand and four. Her birth was filed in entry number ZERO AND THREE HUNDRED AND SEVENTY-EIGHT (0378-2007), folio ZERO AND SEVENTYEIGHT (078) of the book ONE HUNDRED AND THREE (103) of births of the Civil Registry of the Municipality of San Benito, Department of Peten, issued on March twenty-three, two thousand and seven, which is included in the file of the voluntary adoption process. That the following documents form part of the file of voluntary steps: a) birth certification of the minor RAYMOND CASTELLANOS GEREZ issued by the Civil Registrar of the Municipality of Municipality of San Benito, Department of Peten on March twenty-three two thousand and seven; b) document from the States with

the witnesses affidavit of Mr. STEVE ESPAMER given under oath before the notary Carrie Jean Singer, in the City of Harrisburg, in the Pennsylvania, United States of America on February sixteen, year two thousand and seven; c) document from the States with the witnesses affidavit of Mr. BRANDON SUNDBFRG given under oath before the notary Carrie Jean Singer, in the City of Harrisburg, in the Pennsylvania, United States of America on February seventeen year two thousand and seven; d) Also, all the documents coming from the States to prove the good manners, moral solvency and economical capacity of the ADOPTIVE PARENTS in order to fulfill the obligations the adoption demands 'Those documents were submitted to the Sixth Family Court located in the City of Guatemala, Department of Guatemala where the assigned Third Social Worker, Licenciada Lucila Stella Domingue/. R., FAVORABLY JUDGED on August eight, year two thousand and seven, about the required adoption. Based on article thirty-two of the Regulating Law of the Notarial Steps for Voluntary Jurisdiction Matters, the General Solicitor's Attorney Office of the Nation favorably decided about this adoption Based on article thirty-two of the Regulating Law of the Notarial Process of Voluntary Jurisdiction Matters, a hearing was granted to the General Solicitor Attorney's Office of the Nation who identified the file under number ten thousand and five hundred and forty dash zero seven (10,540-07). Such institution JUDGED and FAVORABLY ORDERED on December twenty-seven, year two thousand and seven, through its auxiliary lawyer, Licenciada Maria Luisa Leiva about the procedure legality, judging that IT IS JUSTIFIED to pronounce the approve the adoption application made by BENJAMIN TURNER NYSTROM AND TRICIA SHELLA3NE BROWN-NYSTROM, to grant the adoption public deed of the minor MERCI ESTE I, A CARDONA EE MUS, to issue the certified copy in order to be filed in the corresponding Civil Registry of San Benito, Peten. After trying the procedure, dated February twenty, two thousand and eight, a decision was pronounced In its declaratory part, the decision literally reads:-----------------------------------------------------------------------------"IT IS DECIDED TO DECLARE THAT: I) IT IS ADMITTED THE VOLUNTARY PROCEDURE FOR ADOPTION BROUGHT BY MR.

AND

MRS.

BENJAMIN

TURNER

NYSTROM

AND

TRICIA

SHELLAINE BROWN-NYSTROM for the adoption of the minor MERCI ESTELA CARDONA LEMUS. II) That the "ADOPTED CHILD" who will be named in the future MERCI ESTELA NYSTROM, is the child of the "ADOPTIVE PARENTS". III) The patria potestas of the "NATURAL MOTHER" is finished over the adopted child IV) That the patria potestas, guardianship, care and other rights and obligations over the adopted minor, correspond now on to the "ADOPTIVE PARENTS" V) That this adoption should be authorized by a public deed VI) That this file should be filed in the General File of Official Records BE ADVISED There appears the illegible signature of the authorizing notary and his professional seal which reads Armando Uriel Garcia Solis, Lawyer and Notary FOUR III: Miss ALICIA EORENA DOM INGUEZ CORDON, the ATTORNEY OF THE NATURAL MOTHER of the minor to be adopted, declares that in her capacity of attorney, declares that in her capacity, she legalizes through this act, the adoption of the minor MERCI ESTELA CARDONA LEMUS, from now on surnamed NYSTROM and that her grantor waives in a irrevocable and definite way to any right or obligation that may corresponds to her, including the succession rights regarding to the minor RAYMOND CASTELLANOS GEREZ and she expressly accepts the patria potestas finalization of her grantor due to the adoption and that her rights and obligations correspond now on to the ADOPTIVE PARENTS and that nor her grantor and the minor either have goods to be counted in an inventory. FIFTH: Licenciado FELICIANO LOPEZ CHAVEZ declares to be the ATTORNEY OF THE ADOPTIVE PARENTS and in his capacity he EXPRESSLY ACCEPTS AS HIS GRANTORS' CHILD the minor MERCI ESTELA CARDONA LEMUS, surnamed from now on NYSTROM with all the rights and obligations imposed by adoption, obligations that are expressly accepted by the ADOPTIVE PARENTS in an ample way, especially the patria potestas, guardianship, care and representation of the minor. Also, the ADOPTIVE PARENTS promise to accomplish with moral,

economical and social obligations imposed by adoption and accept the waivers verified by the power of attorney of the birth mother in behalf of their attorney from the attorney of the natural mother of the minor aforementioned. SIXTH: Both granters declare that according to previously related terms, they EXPRESSLY ACCEPT the adoption legalization in this public deed and all and every one of its clauses. I, the undersigned Notary, ATTEST that l completely read what was written and that 1 know the obligation to record the testimony of this public deed in the corresponding Civil Registry They ratify, accept and sign this document along with the authorizing notary who attests -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------<signature> illegible. <signature> illegible. BEFORE ME: <signature> illegible. -------<scal> Licenciado Armando Uriel Garcia Solis -------------------------------------------------<There is a legalization on an attached sheet that reads: This is the FIRST CERTIFIED COPY of the Public Deed number ONE HUNDRED AND FORTYTWO (142), which I authorized in this city on May six year two thousand and eight in my notarial official file to be given to Mr. and Mrs. BENJAMIN TURNER NYSTROM AND TRICTA SHELLAINE BROWN-NYSTROM, through their Power of Attorney, Licenciado FELICIANO LOPEZ CHAVEZ that I issue, number and sign on five sheets of simple paper. The four first ones are on special photocopy paper and are printed on both sides and they faithfully reproduce the matrix deed and are GENUINE because they were taken and revealed directly from their original today in my presence and the fifth one is this one which does not have any tax stamp because it is free according to article seven of the Tax Stamps Law and Special Paper for Official Notarial Records (Decree number 37-92 of the Congress of the Republic of Guatemala. In the City of Guatemala on May seven, two thousand and eight. <Signature> illegible. <seal> Licenciado Armando Uriel Garcia Solis, Lawyer and Notary-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------<The five sheets of this document have the signature and seal of Licenciado Armando Uriel Garcia Solis and one tax stamp with the seal of Licenciado Garcia Solis on it on every one>--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

<There is a reason from the National Individual Registry of San Benito, Peten which reads as follows>------------------------------------------------------------------------------------REASON: The undersigned Civil of the National Individuals Registry of San Benito Peten CERTIFIES: that I made the corresponding annotation in the entry 06-2008, folios 106 through 116 of the book No. 04 of adoptions. And the birth entry No. 03782007, folio No 78 of the book No 103 of births of this Registry, was reasoned. San Benito, Peten 05/15/2008 --------------------------------------------------------------------------<Illegible signature>, <Round rubber seal> NATIONAL INDIVIDUAL REGISTRY, RENAP, CIVIL REGISTRY, SAN BENITO, PETEN, BRANCH NO. 100--------------IN WITNESS WHEREOF, 1 sign and seal this sworn translation in the City of Guatemala, without assuming some responsibility for the uses to be given to the document, on May 20, 2008.-----------------------------------------------------------------------

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