The journey to Lucy Grace started in January of 2006. Allen and I decided we wanted to grow our family through adoption. I felt really strongly that we were suppose to adopt through China and after attending some workshops Allen agreed. We started the long process of gathering all the documents for our dossier to go to China. We finally completed all the paper work and were logged in on August 15th, 2006 and the long wait began. When we began the process it was about a year long wait but by the time our paperwork was logged in the wait had been extended to about 18 months.However, the wait eventually grew to a five year wait! We were willing to wait on God's time and we spent this time enjoying and focusing on Peyton.
Through the wait I began to wonder if we were doing the right thing and questioned is this where we are suppose to adopt from? As we continued to wait we occasionally thought of changing our choice to another country or to adopt here. However, every time we talked about changing to another country, I felt God saying wait. So we did for a while.
Then in October of 2008 we got a call from our agency about a birth mom searching for a family. Our agency asked if we would consider putting in a scrapbook to see if the birth mom would be interested in us adopting her baby. Allen and I felt a door had been opened and we should see what would happen. Well, that door opened and led us to our precious gift, Madison. We were overjoyed when we were picked and it was unreal when Madison was placed in our arms in April 21st, 2009! We had no doubt God had picked her to be in our family. After Madison's adoption was complete we were asked if we wanted to continue the wait for China. We discussed it and really would love to have another baby but were not sure financially if we could afford the fees again. So we said we would take our name off the list. However, God had a bigger plan!
Then in October of 2008 we got a call from our agency about a birth mom searching for a family. Our agency asked if we would consider putting in a scrapbook to see if the birth mom would be interested in us adopting her baby. Allen and I felt a door had been opened and we should see what would happen. Well, that door opened and led us to our precious gift, Madison. We were overjoyed when we were picked and it was unreal when Madison was placed in our arms in April 21st, 2009! We had no doubt God had picked her to be in our family. After Madison's adoption was complete we were asked if we wanted to continue the wait for China. We discussed it and really would love to have another baby but were not sure financially if we could afford the fees again. So we said we would take our name off the list. However, God had a bigger plan!
On February 10th at 5:00 I got a call that our referral had come through and we had a baby girl waiting for us in China! Imagine our surprise and delight at the news of having another gift from God! Allen and both knew that we were pursuing the adoption and we would be travelling to China!
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