Lifted Out Of The Water

Happy birthday to our sweet boy! Last month our little man turned 5! It was painful to celebrate his birthday and not be able to hold him and shower him with our love, but we are so grateful that (Lord willing) we will get to celebrate together next year and every year after that! Please be praying for our sweet 5 year old.

We have very exciting news….we have officially accepted our referral! Even as I type those words, it does not seem real. It is amazing to think of how far God has carried us in this adoption. We are so excited to announce that, Lord willing, we will be bringing our son home this winter. God is so good! On March 19 th 2014 we received an “India Program Referral Announcement” from our agency (AWAA) advocating for children in the system that were still waiting to be matched with a family. These “waiting children” had been in the international adoption system for a long period of time and currently did not meet any families’ listed referral criteria. We had just submitted our dossier (THE giant compilation of paperwork) and were looking forward to a much deserved break from paper work as we waited for the arrival of Summer and Brooke. AWAA had made it very clear that we were not able to receive a referral (being matched with a child) until approximately 6 months after the...

FAQ Are you still adopting? Oh yes! Many people have assumed since we had the twins that we are no longer adopting. Infertility was not a factor in our adoption decision. Apparently I am extremely fertile and scored twins! :) I know the Lord leads many families to adopt via infertility, but we are not one of those families. God has been weighing adoption on our hearts since before we wed. Both adopting and conceiving were planned….the whole twin thing was definitely a surprise though! The Lord just knew how much I love a buy one get one free deal :) So, YES we are still very much pursuing our India adoption. Where are you in the adoption process? We have submitted our dossier (all our paperwork) and are currently waiting to update our home study. Anytime there are major changes in your family you need to update your home study. The twins definitely classify as a major change. We are able to update our home study once the twins are between 3 and 6 months. We are ...

I thought I would update all of you who supported our garage sale fundraiser through donating items, visiting and helping out day of, and through prayer. It was a HUGE success! Our financial goal was to make $2,000 to put into our adoption savings. After two very labor-intensive days of setting up, tearing down, fighting the North Bend winds, and haggling with the locals, we raised $2,549.51!  God is so good! We sure learned a lot about garage sales and fundraising through this experience and honestly could not have done it with out the help of our parents who came down to help with the event. We feel so blessed to have so much support as we work to bring our child home. Please continue to pray for India and orphans worldwide.

Our fundraiser is only days away! We are feeling extremely blessed by all the donations we have received and will be able to sell/raffle off this Friday and Saturday (June 6th and 7th). Thank you to all who generously donated! We are also praising the Lord for blessing us with a weather forecast of blue skies! God is good! If you are living in the Coos Bay/North Bend area, we would LOVE to have you come out and support our adoption. If you are one of our loved ones far away, you can still support us through prayer. We need prayer for a good turn out of people, for this beautiful weather to continue through the weekend as forecasted, and for us to give all the details of this event over to the Lord. We cannot express how grateful we are for everyone's love and support as we build a family. Baby A and B will be here possibly next month (CRAZY!) and we cannot wait until the day we are matched with Baby C :) We are blessed! God is SO good! God bless you all! J+M

June 6th and 7th we will be having a garage sale/auction in North Bend to help raise money to fund our adoption. Please contact us if you have any items you wish to donate to the sale. These can be items you are purging from your home or new items too! We appreciate anything you are willing to donate. Thank you for thinking of us as you spring clean! :) Please continue to pray for India and orphans worldwide. God bless!

Please say a prayer that our dossier makes it safely to our agency in Virginia. It feels so good to have all that paperwork done, but very scary to let it all out of our sight. Now we are just focusing on the twins and praying He continues to direct us with our adoption. We are feeling so blessed that God chose to have us build our family through conception and adoption. So amazing to experience them both at the same time. Our hearts are so full! Jesus said, "Let the little children come to me, and do not hinder them, for the kingdom of heaven belongs to such as these." - Matthew 19:14