There were two. Two in love. Two committed to a life beside the other. Two personalities, two dreams, two separate hopes for their futures. Until they said two words, “I do.”And then two became one. One path.One journey.One dream bigger, sweeter, greater than each one combined.One life they shared. And then one day, one baby […]

A year that looked different that any year before.The unknown.The unfamiliar.The unusual. And then the understanding of something powerful.Something beautiful.Something rare. The dawning awareness that they didn’t have to do it alone. There, standing with them in the different and difficult–stood the other. The sister she’d known her whole life.The one who sees the innermost […]

There was a softness about her.A kind of gentleness that drew you in. Her beauty and her spirit laced with a sweetness that quieted you and welcomed you to stay a while. She was tender and warm and in the afternoon I spent with her, I could tell she was the kind of friend others […]

“She will change the world…” Trista said with gentle confidence as she watched her daughter. Full of life.Full of spirit.Full of strength. And as I let the power of her mothers words and the certainty in which she spoke them settle deep into my heart–I knew. I knew the life her words gave. The breath […]

We get questions all the time about our adoption experience and we love answering them–but more than that, we love that God is continuing to use our story to not only remind ourselves of who is He and what He’s done, but to help shape others’ stories along the way. I recall to mind often […]

Unbeknownst to us these were taken mere days before this precious girl was born. Thousands of longing moments, thousands of tears and then this–one life crying out the goodness of God and His act to whisper “yes” to a thousand answered prayers. A testament to Him who hears.A life woven and spun and created for […]

In a world of color, of ordinary days and familiar people, every once in a while you live in a night of gold. Golden skies and beaming light.Where glances and laughter and play sashay softly atop the swaying reeds and wrap her arms around tall turning trees. It’s here time takes a breath.Slowly in.Slowly out. […]

Sometimes at the end of a day life seems clearest. When all the moments of what came before built one upon the other to lead to the present. And somehow the glittering light softly casts illumination on not just the journey you’ve taken to get there, but the people you’ve become along the way. How […]

Now is our forever. The babbles, the snuggles, the growing up too fast.The walking, the exploring, the curiosity in the details of life that often get passed over, forgotten and not seen. Not in his eyes. No, the world is big and the pieces that make it up are bigger. Now is our forever.Now in […]

Morning light wrapped and twisted around her form. The form of a mother.The form of newness and joy and youth. The simultaneous question of unknowns yet deep residing warmth of peace found their way together to the depths of her soul. She carried life and being and a heartbeat now drawing from hers but soon–a […]