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  • On Track for Baby Stack

     

     

     

     

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    our family.

     

     

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    All proceeds go to support adoption fees. Please contact us if you are interested in an item! We also accept donations to our GofundMe, checks, and Venmo as payment.

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    Five pack of Handmade In-line Spinners

    Five pack of Handmade In-line Spinners

    These in-line spinner lures are hand made with quality steel shafts, brass bodies (plain and nickel finish), painted bodies that are covered in epoxy, and the hooks are super sharp Eagle Claw 375F treble hooks that are forged with a nickel finish and have curved hollow ground points. Comes with a variety of spinning blades (Colorado, French, and Willow) which are attached with quality nickel clevises to ensure rust-free easy spinning for a long time. Weight of lures ranges from 1/8 oz to 1/4 oz. Various extra adornments such as colorful tubing, beads, or feathers on at least two in each pack.
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    Country Blue

    Country Blue

    39"w x 44"l
    This pretty whole cloth quilt has a blue and white checkered front with a pretty floral back and blue binding.

    All proceeds go to support adoption fees. Please contact us if you are interested in an item! We also accept donations to our GoFundMe, checks, and Venmo as payment.
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    Purple Pansy

    Purple Pansy

    37"w x 37"l
    Robins egg blue and plum colored blocks with a sand colored border. Robins egg blue back that features green, purple, and sand colored violets. *Really awesome quilting on this one!*

    All proceeds go to support adoption fees. Please contact us if you are interested in an item! We also accept donations to our GoFundMe, checks, and Venmo as payment.
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    Blue Travel Checkerboard

    Blue Travel Checkerboard

    21"w x 21"l
    How awesome is this! This fabric checkerboard can go anywhere with you! When you're done playing, you can roll it up and tuck it away! This would be a great gift for any one who camps or glamps, travels or stays home, prefers to be outside or inside, or is a professional checkers player or just starting out! Hand wash only.

    All proceeds go to support adoption fees. Please contact us if you are interested in an item! We also accept donations to our GoFundMe, checks, and Venmo as payment.
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    Pretty in Purple

    Pretty in Purple

    37"w x 41"l
    A fun whole cloth quilt has a fun flower and butterfly motif in purple on the front with a grey and white check on the back.

    All proceeds go to support adoption fees. Please contact us if you are interested in an item! We also accept donations to our GoFundMe, checks, and Venmo as payment.
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    Pink Travel Checkerboard

    Pink Travel Checkerboard

    21"w x 21"l
    How awesome is this! This fabric checkerboard can go anywhere with you! When you're done playing, you can roll it up and tuck it away! This would be a great gift for any one who camps or glamps, travels or stays home, prefers to be outside or inside, or is a professional checkers player or just starting out! Hand wash only.
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    Rhapsody in Blue

    Rhapsody in Blue

    36"w x 36"l
    Dainty blue flowers for the back of this navy and light blue quilt with some salmon pink blocks.
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  • About Us

    Our journey together started when we married on July 2, 2011. Before we married, we knew that adoption and foster care were important to us and planned on incorporating both into our lives. Little did we know that those would be the only ways for us to have children.

    Immediately after marriage we moved to Colorado where we struggled to conceive for 6 years. Finally, after 3 miscarriages and many doctor visits we learned the hard truth that we are unable to have a baby. Our miscarriages and infertility diagnosis were heartbreaking, but Jesus gives us hope through our own adoption into His family. Our brokenness is not forever, but in this life on earth we now are pursuing other ways to build our family.

    In 2017 we moved to Southeast Missouri where Alex is a pastor and Jackie is a special education teacher. We connected with Bethany Christian Services in St. Louis and are in the process of infant adoption through them. During this process we were blessed to connect with a family not working through Bethany, and we had our first opportunity to adopt.

     

    In March 2019, we brought our daughter Evelyn home and officially adopted her four months later. We are blessed to enjoy a relationship with her birth family and are so happy that Evelyn will know love from everyone who has prayed for her before she was born.

    At this time in our journey we would love for Evelyn to be a big sister, so we are continuing to work with Bethany Christian Services to pursue another adoption.

     

    We'd like to invite you to partner with us, invest in us, and pray for all of us in this journey and consider donating.

     

    Please consider supporting us through our GoFundMe account at http://gf.me/u/ymz6dd

  • The Blog

    Hear about new opportunities, old stories, and progress in our journey toward adoption

    6 Months Later...
    July 6, 2021
    Our little Micah man is 6 months old! We can't believe it! It seems like we were just bringing him home from the hospital and setting up all these extra doctors appointments for him. He looks like a totally different baby from when we first met him. He's added a couple extra chins, his...
    Family Update
    March 6, 2021
    So much has happened since we last posted! Early February, Micah got sick. He was so congested, wheezy, and coughed so much. He was still on the oxygen so the doctor was concerned about a respiratory infection. Luckily, he tested negative for that and it was determined that he just had a cold....
    Micah Medical Update
    December 29, 2020
    We're home! Micah was discharged from Children's Hospital in Saint Louis on December 23. Micah spent a total of 10 days in the NICU. When he was born, the doctors thought he had an infection because he was not eating nearly enough. We later found out he did not have an infection, but a feeding...
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  • What the Adoption Process Looks Like

    This is what an adoption through an adoption agency tends to resemble. We are halfway through Step 4.

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    Preliminary Application

    Submit basic personal information. Attend a preliminary information meeting where we get more information.

     

     

     

     

     

    Fee: Free

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    Formal Application

    The formal application includes more detailed information, such as: what we believe, adoption preferences, financial disclosures, etc. It also serves as a contract between us and Bethany Christian Services.

     

     

     

    Fee: $550

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    Home Study

    The home study involves a series of background checks, physician's reports, detailed financial records, 27 hours of educational training, questionnaires, other forms, and three home visits/interviews with a social worker. Usually takes 3-4 months.

     

    Fee: $3500

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    Placement

    After our home study is approved we must complete 10 additional education hours. We are then officially on the list waiting to be paired with a child to become part of our family. Once we find our child, we start the legal process of adoption. Can take anywhere from 0-36 months.

     

    Fee: $11,000 Initially

    Fee: $7,525 after Placement

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    Post-Placement Visits

    A minimum of three visits are conducted following the placement: usually at about one month, three months, and six months after. These are check-ins both for us and for the child to make sure the process is going well, and that we are doing well.

     

     

    Fee: $1,575

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    Finalization

    After the child has been part of our family for about 6 months we will be able to finalize the adoption in court. Yay!

     

     

     

     

     

     

    Fee: Variable Attorney Fees

  • Questions?

    Adoption is complicated. We get it, and we want everyone to understand what we are going through. Please ask!

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