welcome to Our latest and greatest adventure

Just some tidbits of info

For those unaware, Steven and I have lived the “no” adventure for a while. From loss to infertility to literally every corner we turned “no” was the answer when it came to a child/set of children. 

In August of 2022, we decided, “fine, God, we’re done trying” and got out of the way.

In less than a week after that statement, I told him one Saturday “I don’t want to go oversees next summer, let’s just go to Montana to Glacier National Park or something”… to which he agreed. 12 hours later an email comes in from a social worker in the north Mississippi area “hey, I know y’all only wanted domestic but would you consider our {insert country here} Program.”…. okay, God, I KNOW you heard me because I said it OUT LOUD not even twelve hours ago… fast forward… sure, we won’t limit anything He may have in store for us, why not.

Conversations ensued, specific to one child… from the beginning. That’s not how these things typically work either.

In November 2023 we finally boarded an airplane headed to get our little man!  Full of nerves, anxiousness, and excitement we finally got to meet him in person and we all fell in love immediately.  We came home just a few days before Christmas 2023 with our best Christmas gift we could ever receive.

Well, now it is July 2025, we have watched our little boy grow up, learn English, excel in school, play soccer and baseball, make friends and accept Christ as his Savior!  But NOW he gets to add the title of “Big Brother” to his list of achievements!  Our adoption agency hit us up about another child who is needing a family and we discussed it, prayed about it and eventually talked to our son about it and we are all so excited to begin this 2nd Adoption Journey!

Things are going to move faster on this one as many of the things we have to do just need updates or are already considered good from the last time we went through all of this.  The only big thing missing is the funds that will be needed.  Using what we had for our first journey, plus rates going up…we’ve got a lot of ground to cover financially to be ready to go get our newest little one!

Please pray for all of us, including the new little one that we have not yet met – pray for us that we listen to God’s word as He leads us through this, that we have the peace and reassurance needed throughout the process, pray for our son as he is not a patient person but is so excited, and pray for the little one as they continue to wait for a family who is destined to be their family.