Hold on to your hats!

Ladies and Gentleman hold on to your hats..
Jeremiah is going to be a Big Brother!

Yes you did read that right.  Baby Ivy #2 is set to make his/her appearance November 18th.  In 6 weeks we will be a family of 4! (that blows my mind)  

All right so now that you have caught your breath let me share a bit of the back story.  Just before Labor Day we received word from our adoption agency (who we were not in the process of working with might I add) that Jeremiah's birth mother was pregnant again. She had contacted the agency to see if they could get in touch with us because she wanted us to adopt this baby too.  At first we were shocked.  Jeremiah was only 7 months old.  How could we have another baby.   As the emotions sunk in we knew what we had to do.  We had to keep siblings together and God must have a big plan in all of this so we would go ahead with this adoption.

This new bundle of joy comes with many mixed emotions.  Sadness that J's birth mother finds herself in this place again.  Exhaustion at the paperwork and fund raising that must go on in a few short weeks while also caring for a very busy now almost 9 month old.  We feel inadequate and needing to learn to rely on God more to care and train another little one.  The overall feeling though is joy at the thought of another little one in our home. 

Would you please pray for us as we work on paperwork, prepare our hearts to receive another baby, and seek God for His provision.  Would you pray for the birthmother as she travels to Utah in a few weeks and thinks of giving another baby away.  Pray most of all that she would know the love of God in a powerful way.  And pray for this new baby that he/she would grow healthy and be born strong.  Would you please also be praying about partnering with us financially.  Adoption is not cheap and because this is our second adoption in a year we have not been planning and saving for this adoption.  We trust that God will provide as He did with Jeremiah but we are going to need the help of others. In the next few weeks we will, Lord willing, have a matching grant available if people would like to give a tax deductible gift that will also be matched dollar for dollar.  So stay tuned...