These two have known each other forever. They grew up in each others’ homes, spending weeks on end at the pool during the summer and eating Sunday meals together. As time passed, they began to take notice of each other. From missions trips to Europe, to conferences on the other side of the country, the […]
Fifty years ago Jay and Lya wed. Lya grew up on a small island off the east coast of Africa and Jay, working for the US met her during his travels. They quickly fell in love, married, and returned to the US. Lya learned to appreciate the food of her new home and fell in […]
Tuesday, the fourteenth of November, two-thousand and seventeen will be a day that this family remembers forever. After 651 days in foster care this sweet boy was adopted. Big brother, sister, his adoring parents, and nearly forty of his closest friends and family crowded around after the judge ruled the adoption finalized. So many days […]
As many of you know, our family was shaped, formed, moved, and rocked because of the addition of two wonderful kids. We were young and idealistic when we first started contemplating growing our family through adoption. How incredible it must be to bring a child into a family, we thought. We contemplated how amazing to […]
The other day I was sitting around our kitchen staring at what we’d created. Yes, there was a huge mess all around as the seven of us piled in to our gallery-style kitchen following my daughter’s birthday festivities. In the midst of the chaos a funny thought struck me that just a few years ago […]