Our Story

Luke and I welcome you to walk alongside our journey as we start our family through the gift of adoption. Sharing our story with others and how God is amazing, faithful, and an active part in our journey is something we hope will be encouraging and motivating to others and most importantly that God will be glorified through this! Luke and I are not big bloggers, we have so much respect for those who love it and do it on a regular basis! It just isn’t something we would normally do. Now I am not going to lie, starting a blog is completely out of our comfort zones, so please bear with us if our blogs don’t always make sense; we are not the best writers!

Luke and I have always had a deep desire and passion to have and raise a family of our own. We have a great love and passion for children and desire to raise and equip our children to know Jesus Christ as their Lord and Savior.  After we were married for a year and a half, Luke and I began talking about starting a family. Surprisingly, not long after in January of 2011, Luke and I found out I was pregnant. About 6 weeks later I found out that I had a miscarriage and later found out it was a partial molar miscarriage.  That was very hard to handle because only 1 out of 1000 women ever have these types of miscarriages and this type of miscarriage could be more severe for women dealing with other issues.  It was very upsetting and difficult time in both of our lives. Through those difficult and emotional days I knew I needed the Lord more than I had ever needed Him and to trust in His unfailing, perfect love for Luke and I. For the next year and a half Luke and I had went through 3 other miscarriages and went through a lot of testing, tons of doctor appointments, 2 D&Cs, outpatient exams, and endless amounts of blood work, and I mean ENDLESS!!  I literally felt like a pin cushion and I know I will never get stuck with a needle as much as I did those two years!

“But he said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness. Therefore, I will boast all the more gladly about my weakness, so that Christ’s power may rest on me.”    2 Corinthians 12:9

 I can honestly say the past two years have been the toughest I have ever experienced. This was truly my worst nightmare and biggest fear to have gone through infertility, the Lord broke me and I knew I was weak; I needed to depend on Him and was yearning for God! Realizing this was completely out of my control, I started humbly submitting myself to God and through His faithfulness….God SHOWED UP and continues to provide in so many ways! He has given Luke and I grace through countless blessings these past two and half years; I wouldn’t change it for anything!  My love for Christ and relationship with Him has grown more authentically and personably than I could ever imagine through revealing Himself to me in so many different aspects of my life.  And for that Luke and I praise God and give Him all the glory. Through these trials, the Lord has been molding and shaping my character into more of Himself. One aspect the Lord really convicted me of and made me realize how I had my hope in the wrong things; my focus and hope was too much on conceiving children of our own. I had to be real and honest with myself and the Lord in order to work through this barrier with the Lord’s help. Now, I can truly say that my hope and identity is in Christ and not of this world and that I earnestly look forward to the day where I can meet my Heavenly Father!!

“For the lamb in the midst of the throne will be their shepherd, and he will guide them to springs of living water, and God will wipe away every tear from their eye.”   Revelation 7:17