Adoption Creates Families: Just When You Think Your Family Is ...

We are thrilled to announce to all of you that Billy and I are adding

?another member to our family!?

In case you are counting, that will make five kids.

5 kids.?

Wow. I have had to let that sink in a little bit.

?That's right, we are adopting again and this time:

It's A Boy!?

However, this son will not be wearing this:

He will be wearing this:

Our new son is 15 years old and is a HUGE Dallas Cowboys fan. We are so excited to welcome home our boys' biological cousin "K" sometime this summer.

?He has been in foster care for 2 years, entering the system on the same day that Jayden did. K recently became free for adoption. His foster home busted up and he is in a temporary home for now.?

When contacted by CPS about his current circumstance, I told his worker that he will not become another statistic of kids who age out of the foster care system and end up homeless or in prison.

?Not my child.?

I explained we love K very much and want the best for him. He has been a part of our family for awhile now, and we would be honored to make him officially our son forever. I told her that despite all of my dreams and plans, God chose to bring two of my babies home as newborns, two as toddlers, and now one as a teen. HIS plan has always been far greater and more fulfilling than anything I could have come up with. She said that hearing that lifted a huge weight off of her shoulders about what would become of this spectacular kid.

We thought we were going to have to become foster parents to get him and just received GREAT news from CPS that we can welcome him home as a straight adoption and not have to do any of the arduous and time consuming training and inspections that come with foster care licensing. We hope to have our paperwork, finger prints, and home study completed and submitted to bring K home mid to late July. We talk to him on the phone weekly and have to assure him often that we are in fact going to do this and will not let him down.
K will be entering his sophomore year in the fall at the highschool that is literally two streets away from our house. He wants to try out for football and basketball. He is an A/B student, very responsible. I told him that he will have to get used to having a Mom that is all kinds of up in his business! He laughed at that.?

As far as his brother, "T"...we have been in contact with some sweet, sweet friends from church who are currently licensed foster parents. They are feeling called to adopt T as their child. He will be the oldest of three in their family, and their first adoption. We think that is fantastic!!! He will have his own bedroom and be only about 10 minutes from us. They live right by the middle school and are very close friends to several families with boys just his age and grade. We will see him every Sunday at church, during Youth Group meetings, and family fun events. We will be able to have sleepovers and have him be so much more a part of our life and family than he has been.

?They have already begun to prepare his place in their home and are so excited to have him as their very own. His new Mama is just anxious and biting at the bit to get her boy! I couldn't be more thankful to God for providing in abundance for him. Nothing is set, but we are praying CPS will choose them as his forever family and bring their son home before his 12th birthday on June 22nd.?

Please join us in praying for these boys. They are just fantastic kids and the joy of my heart. I cannot wait to see how God unfolds this chapter in their lives. I suspect it will be the very best one yet.

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