In case you hadn't heard...

We're Adopting!

STORY

We battled infertility for 2 1/2 years before conceiving twin boys, Colt & Case, only to have our hearts broken when they were born 16 weeks too soon and passed away one hour after birth. Clint & I both agreed in our dating years that it would be "kinda cool" to adopt a baby in addition to our bio babies. Little did we know, we would face some seriously difficult times getting those bio babies. Doctors felt great about future singleton pregnancies, but not until later in 2015. We were disheartened.  We had recently raised money for the cost of a frozen embryo transfer, and now we were being told it would be a while before we could move forward with that. We were so ready to be parents and couldn't imagine staring at our empty nursery doing nothing to fill it. Adoption came back up, and we felt it was not if, but when, and what better time than right now. People were often suggesting, "You can always just adopt," "will you ever just adopt?" We did not want to go into adoption as a last resort with desperate and beaten down hearts and just adopt because there was no other hope. We wanted this to be something we were called to. One class in I am certain we are being called to this. I've been trying to complete our paperwork for two months, and, let me tell ya, you don't JUST adopt! Oh, and the average wait time, two YEARS.
ROOTS
We are completely blown away at the amount of people who opened their hearts and donated to our fund for trying to conceive with a frozen embryo. We had loved ones, old friends, and even strangers giving. Some people even hosted special parties and gave us the proceeds. My heart was so full, and I fell in love with our little town all over. It really does take a village to raise [and, sometimes, have] a child. I can't wait to create roots for a little one here and share the story of how loved and wanted they were by a very special village.
GRATEFUL
We will continue to fundraise toward this new goal, and please know that we do not expect people to give and give and give. If you'd like to and can participate, we thank you. If not, that's okay, too. We'd be just as happy if you'd send a few good words to the big guy upstairs for us.

 



A rough draft of our 20 page profile book is available to any birth mother that comes in to the agency that helped us get started as of Saturday 1/17/15. If we match her criteria, our book will be given to her to take home and consider. Our book isn't available to the attorney we'd like to work with until we do her portion of paperwork and retainers and such which will hopefully be done in a few weeks. We are still finishing classes (which are 2 hours from home), have 1-3 home studies, and need Clint's physical and our fingerprints to be done. Starting to see why this takes a while, right?  

We will try to keep everyone updated as we go along. Posts may be few and far between, because it is a lengthy process, but they will be shorter :)