We have exciting news!!!

As many of you know we have been trying to expand our family for the past 3 years. After 2 years of trying for another baby we sought a diagnosis and fertility treatment. We did not have much success with the treatments and decided to expand our family through adoption. We have been in the process to adopt through the foster system for about a year now. We recently finished the home study interviews and have been anxiously anticipating being sent to matching. We expected to have a baby in our arms as soon as September.

Well, I am shocked and excited to announce that on August 5th we found out I am pregnant. 

Yes PREGNANT!!! What?!?!?!

The back story... Our decision to adopt was one we believe was God inspired. There are many beautiful ways to expand ones family but we believe God had directed us towards adoption, specifically adoption through the foster care system. It took me months to be comfortable with this idea and only recently have I felt ready for our baby and the potential heartache one can experience when adopting through the foster system. Only recently have I felt confident in God's plan for us, only recently have I truly believed we could handle all things through Christ who IS our strength. By the beginning of August the paperwork was complete, the home study was weeks away from being approved and we could have our baby as soon as September! On August 5th I looked at my calendar and realized I was late for my period... what? I am NEVER late. After much internal debate I decided to take a pregnancy test. It was positive. This can't be right... I turned over the packaging and read the expiration date: July 2015. It expired a month ago... Well of course it did, I hadn't purchased pregnancy tests in over a year! I found another one, this one wasn't expired. So I did what you are not supposed to do, I drank a bunch of water so I could take another test. Another positive. After a series of emotions consisting of; shock, fear, joy with tears, frustration, joy again, unbelief, and finally joy with a lot of tears, I dropped down on my knees and thanked God for this gift I never thought I would experience again.

The very next morning I received a call from our adoption worker, she was excited to inform us that our home study had moved along quicker than expected, was approved and moved to matching!! With tears of joy and confusion I had to inform her that just last night I found our I am pregnant, that we had stopped "trying" for a baby well over 6 months ago and yet somehow I am pregnant. She sweetly congratulated me and informed me that she would pull us from matching and put our file on hold until after the baby is born. (The county's policy is that you wait until the baby is at least 6 months old before they can place another child in your home.)

According to most doctors, if we wanted another biological child IVF should be our plan of action. And yet, God chose to bless us with another biological child the night before we were supposed to be sent to matching. What an awesome and wonderful God we serve, there is no denying that God blessed us with this pregnancy, that this was God's doing. That only God could have made this pregnancy happen. The timing is too perfect and too precise to be a coincidence.
All glory and honor be to God!!! 

We do not know why God chose to bless us at this time and in this way, I don't know why we went through years of heartache and hardship but I know God is good, His timing is perfect, and His plan is awesome, no matter what the outcome. The last year has been a growing and stretching time for our family, not only have we grown stronger in our relationships with each other, our faith, joy and trust in God has been strengthened. We still have a heart for adoption, that has not changed. We do not know what the next few years will look like for our family, our plan is to take things one step at a time keeping our eyes on God and trusting in His perfect plan.  

We got to hear the baby's heartbeat for the first time this week. 

Here is a little video.
Thank you all for your prayers and support over the last few years!!
God heard our prayers and answered them in an unexpected way!