Hoping to Adopt...Again!: We Love Adoption

September 2006 - when we were sealed to Blake

Adoption. It is such an important word in our family. We love adoption and how we have been blessed by it. We believe the decision is a personal and complicated one, both for birth parents and adoptive couples. It brings people together and creates relationships that would never come about in any other situation. Adoption is a beautiful process that allows the Lord to create families in a very unique way. Our two experiences have been amazing and we know that this is the way for us to have the family we always wanted. We love our kids and we can't wait to bring another baby into our home through adoption. We talk openly with all of our family and friends about adoption and are proud to be part of it. It has been a humbling experience and we have learned so much from the process.

We are fortunate to have open adoptions with Eli and Blake's birth mothers. We love knowing what's going on in their lives and keeping them up to date on ours. We are so glad that we have been able to watch their lives progress and hear about all the fun and exciting news in their families. It's wonderful that we can teach our children about their birth mothers and let them know what amazing women they are. We look forward to having a relationship with another birth mother and extending our family again. Our children will always know the deep gratitude we have for their birth parents and how they were loved before they came to us.