It's official! We're Adopting!

We are so excited to announce that we are expecting - on paper that is! We will soon be adding to our family through adoption. Hopefully, within the next year or so, we will be bringing home our baby girl from China. Although we don't know her yet, we love her all the same and eagerly await the day the she will join her forever family. Her brothers and sister cannot wait! 

Our adoption journey began in March as we sought pre approval from our adoption agency. After receiving the  pre approval, we then located a home study agency (with the help of some close friends) and began the LONG paper trail that is adoption. Today, we are happy to share that step one is complete! Praise the Lord! In the adoption world a day is a like a lifetime, so when we opened the mailbox to find six wonderfully certified copies of our home study, we quickly if you ignore several unforeseeable detours made our way to the post office to mail our immigration paperwork. Yay! We have officially begun step two. And now . . . we wait. 


Waiting . . . it's such an incredibly hard thing to do! If we had our way, we'd be on a plane to China today, but as we wait, we know that our heavenly Father is shaping and molding us into the people He wants us to be. In fact, He loves our baby girl more than we do, and it is He who has given us the heart for adoption. So, as we wait, we see each obstacle, each struggle as an avenue to greater faith. 


And as we wait, our desire is that at the end of this long journey, we will look more like Him -  give more, serve more, love more. That we will truly understand what it means to be adopted by the Father and to be joint heirs with Christ. We long for our children to see the Gospel up close and personal -  to know the love of the Father and understand His heart for the fatherless. 


We are so excited to share our journey with you. Please pray that God will use our family for His glory and that He will show Himself strong as we wait.