Exciting Announcement!!

We’re Adopting!!!

It’s crazy to me – how much God works in the details. How sometimes pieces of our life don’t make sense for years and then things start to fit… you look back and marvel at how God weaved it all together.

For us, adoption is one of those pieces. It’s been a desire in our hearts since we started dating almost 15 years ago. But it never worked out. We’d take a few steps forward and be met with very firmly closed doors.

As we researched, I also became quite fear-filled. The majority of adoption stories are not pretty. There is so much “hard” involved in situations where a child does not get to be with their biological parents.

Between the roadblocks and fear, we decided to leave that path. Praise Jesus, we had another biological baby, and while pregnant with him, we thought maybe we’d look into adoption when he was five or so… or just be content with our two boys.

Again, God and the details. My pregnancy with Caleb was very high risk. I ended up switching OB’s partway through to the sweetest doctor. For the last couple of months I had BPP ultrasounds twice a week. I really enjoyed our chats. He and his wife had struggled with infertility, and they adopted their two children as infants. He shared parts of their story at my visits, and what his kids are up to now (both in their 20’s). What I enjoyed most was hearing about his relationship with his kids, especially his daughter. It calmed so many of my fears surrounding the idea that it’s just “not the same” to have adopted kids.

When I was 6 months pregnant I had the great privilege of watching my best friend and her husband finalize the adoption of their three girls. Watching their story unfold was pretty cool.

Between those two ongoing things, adoption again became a regular topic between my husband and I. We started praying about it again… both thinking it was a bit crazy since I was pregnant at the time. We felt we were supposed to go forward, and with every “if this doesn’t work out, we can’t proceed”, God opened doors this time. It felt surreal.

We found a wonderful agency that exceeded what we were looking for. God provided the best social worker. So many details fell into place. And so, as of May of 2025, we were officially licensed and ready to adopt! We are so excited to finish our family in this way.

Everyone’s first question is – when do you get to bring your baby home? We don’t know. We are waiting to be matched with a birth mom and it could be any day, or many more months. It’s hard to wait, but that’s a subject for another day.

I think of our future daughter often, and am so ready to meet her. While we continue to wait for God’s timing, I look back and recall all the ways He’s been faithful. All the details He’s perfectly arranged. All the times He’s directed our steps.

We’ll get where we need to be, when we need to be there. And just like every other part of our journey to build our family, I am quite confident it will be worth the wait.

I look forward to sharing this journey with you and ask for your prayers along the way. 🙂

In Christ,

Grace