After 4+ years of waiting, our dream of becoming parents is finally a reality! We wanted to be able to share this journey with our friends and family via this blog. We were blessed with the birth of our embryo adopted daughter Makenna Lee on June 2, 2010. We were doubly blessed on October 14, 2013 when Alexander Brooks was born. Alexander and Makenna are genetic siblings and we are so very thankful to their Texas Fan Club for sharing the gift of life with us!
Monday, February 15, 2010
Time to paint!!
26 weeks
Tuesday, February 9, 2010
25 weeks
Tuesday, February 2, 2010
24 weeks!
Thursday, January 28, 2010
Makenna's first ruffles
Overall, I'm feeling great! She is starting to wiggle around like crazy & I absolutely love it. Sunday night Brad felt her wiggle around for the first time, too.
Tonight we have our first baby class - this one is on how to help Bugsey get ready for the baby. He still thinks he's king dog, so we figured it couldn't hurt to learn how to slowly ease him into the fact that he'll have to share our affections very soon.
Tuesday, January 26, 2010
Kenna in 3D??
Sunday, January 24, 2010
Kenna's new ride
Reading materials...
Wednesday, January 20, 2010
Mondays Rock!
Tuesday, January 19, 2010
Monday, January 18, 2010
Tuesday, January 12, 2010
Happy Birthday Daddy!
Sunday, January 10, 2010
Thursday, January 7, 2010
Tuesday, January 5, 2010
Monday, December 28, 2009
Thursday, December 24, 2009
Time to share the news.......
Brad’s family couldn’t wait to find out the news either, so that night we went over to their house with balloons & flowers in tow. After raising two boys, I think Grandma is excited that her first grandchild is a girl! Brad’s grandparents were in town for Christmas, so we were able to watch the ultrasound with the whole family that night. We were going to wait until Christmas Eve and Christmas day to share the news with our families, but I couldn't wait that long!!
Wednesday, December 23, 2009
It's a GIRL!!
Yay! Pink brewer outfits!!! I actually accidentally tied the pink ribbon on the boy present - the first one Brad opened had a Ryan Braun t-shirt in it. Oops! Good thing it wasn't a boy - he would have really been surprised to open the two little pink outfits for a boy! Good thing she can wear both the pink ones and the Ryan Braun jersey!!
Tuesday, December 22, 2009
Sunday, December 20, 2009
Tuesday, December 1, 2009
Sunday, November 22, 2009
Sunday, November 8, 2009
Wednesday, October 28, 2009
Wednesday, October 14, 2009
Friday, October 2, 2009
Is that a lima bean?
Friday, Brad and I were blessed to see something we've waited over 4 years to see - our baby's heartbeat on an ultrasound. It brought a tear to both of our eyes. While we were hoping God would keep both of the babies we had transferred a few weeks ago safe in my belly, He has called one of them home. It is kind of a weird feeling to be so very excited about one, but have some grief that the other didn't make it. We both know in our hearts that God is in control and that He had a plan for each of them. We are so thankful to the genetic family for giving us this opportunity to become parents. Brad and I still marvel at the wonder of it all - embryo adoption truly is a gift and has been an amazing and perfect road for us as we (finally!) start our road to parenthood.
If any of you ever have questions on embryo adoption, please don't hesitate to ask us - it is still very new, even to us and of all the people we have shared our journey with, only one or two had even ever heard of this option. We are both very passionate about embryo adoption and would love to answer any questions you may have. Embryo adoption received government funding a few years ago under President Bush and much of this funding was aimed towards awareness campaigns for embryo adoption. We would be more than willing to increase awareness in any way we can by answering your questions, too.
Some great websites you can go to for more information:
www.snowflakes.org (this is the agency we used for our adoption)
www.embryodonation.org
www.cedaeducation.org/embryo-adoption.html

