Our News!!!

We are excited to announce that we are expecting!!!

A beautiful little girl from Ethiopia!

We are sooooo excited to inform our family and friends of the call that we feel God is leading us too. We know it will be a long journey and we are asking for prayers during this entire journey. Our hearts are over filled with joy to be welcoming a child into our home and we can barely contain our excitement!

After MUCH research and prayer, we applied for adoption through All God's Children International out of Portland, Oregon and were accepted February 4th for a child that is 18 months or less in age.  The whole process will take around 18 – 20 months, so we would be looking to bring home a child starting in Summer/Fall 2012.

I plan to use this blog to keep you all informed of where we are in the process and to reach out for support when necessary. I've also attached a link to a video that has been floating around the internet for the past few months. I've probably watched it a dozen times and I still get goose bumps. I realize that not every family is called to adopt and that is not the point of the video - it's just a way to share some of what I am not able to express in my own words. This decision is not a decision made by just Cory and myself - it was a decision made for us as a family even before we were a family.

I will write more soon with some answers to questions that I'm sure many of you are having...

Cory and Ashley