Today is my dad's birthday and my sister's birthday, and one year ago today is the day we found out our lives were about to change forever. November 8th will always have a special place in our hearts because we met our beautiful daughters on this day. After waiting 5 months (that felt like 5 years), we received that life-changing text, followed by that life-changing call, followed by that life-changing hospital visit. Although we were uncertain if those precious girls would o

I thought with exactly one month before the girls turn 1 now would be as good a time as any to wrap up our adoption series. Where has the time gone?!?! I can't believe how fast time flies! A lot has happened since The Day We Brought the Girls Home, so I'll try to be brief! I'll be doing more posts on adoption-related topics in the future, so I'd love to hear from you guys on what you want to learn more about and what questions you have about adoption. Shoot me an email or lea

"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

​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