Hopefully soon...

Another update for all of you....

We have officially hit the one year mark of being shown to potential birth moms and we are still waiting.  We up to 70+ birth moms that have been shown our profile and we hope and pray they choose to give their baby life, and that one of them will pick us.  So what our our next steps...

We are in the process of renewing our home study (they are only good for 1 year), the agency has updated our profile with new pictures and some verbiage changes to show the changes that have happened in the last year within our family and we continue to wait. There isn't much more than play waiting game that we can do.

As we have passed the year mark, it gets a little harder to wait.  Both of us thought we would have a little one or little ones (as Annie's parents keep saying) in our home.  We know that God has a plan for our family and it is in His hands.

We continue to ask for your prayers and support.  We are in this for the long haul and we do feel your support.  If you know of anyone that is thinking about adoption, please pass our name and Adoption Profile along to them.  Like the title says, hopefully soon...

Blessings,

Steve and Annie

Patience is a virtue...and not an easy one!

     We know that these updates have gotten to be further and further apart.  Partially, because we do not have a big exciting update, and partially because we hope that by waiting a little longer each time we will finally have big exciting news to share with you all.  Right now, there is no big exciting news.  We have been with the agency for over a year and our profile will have been up a year in May.  Every month our profile continues to go out to roughly 10 new potential birthmoms.  However, apparently the time has not yet come for us to connect with our baby.  (According to Annie's parents, it is because we are going to get twins and they have not come along yet!)  So at this point we continue to wait (mostly patiently) and pray for all the women who are looking at adoption for this child, and praying for the child (or children) that will be welcomed into our family. 
     In January we were contacted with information on a birthmom who was interested in us.  We spoke with her for a few days, but ultimately she decided that adoption was not right for her child.  That week we experienced a lot of emotions, the joy of a potential connection and the sorrow of knowing that this situation was not the one intended for us.  We have persevered with prayer, prayer for our family, and prayer for this young mom and her new baby, that they will be happy and healthy.     
     A year ago when we began this adventure, we never really thought that we would be a year out without a connection.  Truly, we thought this process would move a little quicker.  This year has proven once again that we are not in control, and we need to put our trust in God.  So now, we continue to practice the virtue of patience, as tough as it is.  At this point we need to renew our homestudy for another year and continue to be ready to jump when our phone rings.  Thank you for all of your ongoing prayers and support.  If you would like to contribute financially to our adoption, please visit our youcaring.org site.