Our Story

After struggling with the ups and downs (aka: only downs) of infertility for the past 6 1/2 years, we feel that God is leading us towards foster/adoption.

This past summer we adopted frozen embryos to use in a frozen embryo transfer, which resulted in yet another negative pregnancy test. We are still on the waiting list to adopt more embryos in the future, but have recently turned all of our attention to parenting children who are in need of a loving home.

I will copy the last post of our Embryo Adoption blog for a little background for this decision. this was posted in early December:


Over the last couple months, Chad and I have decided to pursue being foster-to-adopt parents in our county. We are still on the waiting list for more embryos, and will cross that bridge when we get there (we are pretty far down on the list, so it will be quite a while, which is fine anyway...we are not ready to do that again for quite some time). But in the meantime, we feel that God just may have some wonderful blessings for us who are already born, and needing a loving home.

This weekend we are having a 2 day, 20 hour course, then will have our home study. As soon as this process is over, we hope to have our home open to 1-2 children, ages 0-8.

We do have a specific little 4-year-old boy, "C", that we are going to inquire about. He is already "free and legal" to adopt (parental rights have already been terminated, and he is just waiting for a forever family). I don't want to explain in public, but he has some issues that we feel God has given us the ability and desire to work with, and possibly give him the home he needs. We can not officially inquire about him until our home study is approved, but we are praying about him specifically. If he is meant to be our son, God will work it all out!