For our family, adoption represents a beautiful act of redemption. We believe that God has invited us to become a part of His family, and through adoption we have the opportunity to reflect God’s love by opening our home and family to a beautiful new baby. It is our joy and our privilege to live out our faith through the act of adoption. This privilege leaves us speechless!
Since we met over 16 years ago, Mike and I have dreamed of a family of sons and daughters, and we both love kids. During the early years of dating and marriage, we both volunteered for children’s church, and spent time babysitting for our friends who already had children of their own. Although our family has grown over the years, we find ourselves doing these very same things to this day! We’ve been blessed with four biological sons, and after our fourth son was born, we believed that God was saving our little girl to come to us through adoption; over the years, we’ve treasured this dream of adopting a little girl.
Our long journey towards adoption has taught us to trust God’s plan. When we look back over the last sixteen years, we see the beautiful way that God has shaped our lives and our hearts for just such a time as this. As we’ve raised our sons, we have built our life around our faith, and now, we are excited to see the dots connecting to form our adoption love story. We are trusting God entirely during this process and we are praying that God brings us together with the birth family that needs us, and provides the funds we need to bring our baby girl home.
To be honest, fundraising for our adoption is well beyond our comfort zone, but we have felt God leading us to this place. As we opened our hearts to this path, we’ve been surrounded by a lovely community who believes in our dream, and shares our belief in God’s care for children. Friends and strangers alike have touched us with their love and generosity. It has been an incredible and humbling experience.
Our lives have been touched by adoption, both in our immediate family and among our close friends, and it’s given us a realistic and positive view of the joys and challenges we might face. Along the way, God has also opened wide the hearts of our boys to welcome a baby sister. We have many close friends who have adopted children, or become foster parents. Through Safe Families for Children, a movement which serves parents and children in crisis, we’ve had the privilege of being a host family for a family of siblings as well as a little girl. Our closest friends welcome triplets into their home through adoption, and they have an open adoption with their birth parents. They have taught us so much! God has continually put people in our lives through every season who open up their hearts and homes to children, and this has made a huge impact on our lives, and our children’s. These families have thrown courage on us; each of these experiences have shown us that God opens our hearts to love other children as our own.
We care about adoption because we believe so deeply in the value of life, and we believe each baby deserves a chance at the best life possible. God has also opened our eyes to the beauty of birth mothers, who bravely give life to their babies, and choose to place them in loving and secure homes. What a beautiful and selfless decision, and what a monumental act of love! We want to be there to honor and support that mother.
We couldn’t be more excited to be a waiting family, eager to be matched with a birth mother. It’s a wonderful feeling to know that God is totally in charge of our daughter’s future and our lives and to know with certainty that He will orchestrate all the details to fall in place as they should.
Last January, we took the steps to ready ourselves for our little girl. We began the process of paperwork, home study, family profile book and fundraising. As of October of 2015, we were ready and officially became a waiting family.
Join us as we wait, prepare and dream. We can’t wait to bring our baby girl home.
Join us as we wait, prepare and dream. We can’t wait to bring our baby girl home.
Katie and Mike
Mike loves to work with his hands. Whether it is a home improvement project, fixing a car, helping the boys build a fort, or building me something cool or functional in the home, he is always up for the task! He enjoys riding his motorcycle leisurely with friends on the country roads, and loves to fish and hunt, and he loves to share these pastimes with our boys.
Katie’s passions are entertaining, baking, creating, decorating and connecting with others! She is happiest spending time with loved ones. She also enjoys reading very much and loves the opportunity to get lost in a great book!
Our family lives on 2 acres off on a dirt road near a small town. When we aren’t taking of our chickens, we are camping and taking road trips (along with our golden doodle!). We enjoy hosting get-togethers with friends and family at our home, and there is always a reason to have a party, whether it is a birthday, holiday, movie night or a neighborhood bonfire! All the boys enjoy swimming, baseball, fishing and biking. You never know where you will find us, because on any given weekend we are on the move, hanging out at local orchards, garage sales, baseball diamonds, bike paths. church functions, the neighbor’s yard, grandparents’ pool or lake. On Sundays, we attend church, share a meal with someone, relax, cuddle up on the couch and read, watch movies, play cards and board games. It’s so important to us to reconnect and slow the pace before a new week begins!
Our Boys
We have a very lively household that is daily brimming with life and action! Our four sons are ages 4, 8, 10, and 11. Each of our boys brings an incredible uniqueness to our family and we love it! We have a great variety of personalities in our home. I love that no matter how different or similar we are, the foundation that keeps us all bonded together is the great love of God! He is our foundation, the cornerstone of our family and home.
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