Some of you may have noticed that I have been seriously MIA these last couple months (many of you probably didn't even notice), but things have been crazy! We have a lot of out-of-town company, the girl's first birthday party, sickness throughout our whole house twice over, AND probably the biggest reason was I started a new job!! For those who aren't familiar with our story, prior to us adopting our twin girls, I worked at an online marketing agency managing a team of pretty

"We won. Getting details" Does that text message mean what I think it means? Are we bringing the girls home? Are they going to be our daughters? After waiting an hour which felt like a year, we heard back that we were to meet our caseworker at 3PM to pick up the girls. We had 2 1/2 hours to get ready for our lives to change forever (which included a 1 1/2 hour drive) - do the math, people - 1 hour to prepare for TWINS! I was at lunch with my team at work, so I bid them farewe

We woke up the morning after getting kicked out of the hospital and kept saying over and over, "Was that a dream?" It was a Thursday, so normally we would get up and go to work, but if you remember we told everyone at work about the girls and thought we'd be starting our parental leave. Hmmmm... Now we had no idea what was going to happen, so what do we do while we wait? My boss was super gracious and told me to work from home that day and said we could figure out next steps

It was a Wednesday. I was working on bi-annual reviews for my team members, and my phone rang. My husband was calling me... he never calls me, and definitely never calls me in the middle of a work day. He asked me if I'd checked my phone (since when does Dale check his phone more than me?) When I looked at my text messages, my heart dropped. Our caseworker, Sheryl, had texted us that she had a birth mother who wanted to talk to us. I had imagined this moment for so long - My

​Adoption had been on our hearts since before we were married. We thought we'll get married, have some "us" time, get pregnant and have a couple bio kids, and then adopt... "We can make our plans, but the Lord determines our steps." Proverbs 16:9 - isn't that the truth?!? Well 3 years after we started trying to have a family, we decided to research adoption agencies thinking we'd probably adopt internationally. I was getting a little disheartened with the stats I read about h