Our Journey Starts New

November 2011

For about a year and a half we have been praying that God would bless us with a child. We never imagined having any trouble pursuing this dream, but after a year of seemingly getting no where, we decided to start pursuing infertility treatment. Though we have not been told we cannot have children, the odds are not in our favor. This has been a very difficult journey, which has led us to start the adoption process. Adoption is something we had talked about even before we were married. Our desire is to be parents and raise children to teach them about our Savior, Jesus Christ. At times we wonder if it would have been easier to be told we are unable to have kids so that we could have started the adoption process sooner, but we know God’s timing is perfect, as is His plan for us. We are in the beginning stages of the adoption, we have finished reading the manual, and have started the Adoptive Planning Questionnaire. Once the APQ is finished we will apply for our Home Study. From there we will start working on our profile to be shown to potential birth mothers. We are very excited to have the opportunity to be blessed with a child, and know as hard or as scary and tough the process might be in the end God's will, will be done and we hope we are able to glorify him in every way.

Monday, July 23, 2012

We're not in Kansas anymore




We are here! We left Friday morning from Kansas and drove to West Virginia! We talked with the birth mom while on the road Friday, and set up a time to meet her and her aunt. We are super excited and are praying continually about these next couple weeks. We are taking it a day at a time and enjoying all the blessings God is pouring out along the adventure he has started in our lives. Saturday we finished our long travel and got settled into our hotel just in time to leave and go meet our birth mom. The meeting went very well. We talked and laughed and are feeling very comfortable with each other. On Sunday we took some time to explore DC. We had a great time seeing the sites! Please continue to pray and we will keep you updated.

Love, 
Shannon and Emily 
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