One Year Ago Today

It all started on my way to work, I received a phone call from our social worker asking us if we would like our profile to be shown to a birth mother. There were issues with the baby and the birth mother that I won't get in to, but Dan and I talked and decided to let God take control and if this was our child then the birth mother would pick us. I called the social worker back around 2pm and said to show our profile and let us know the outcome. Well little did I know the birth mother had already chosen us to parent her baby girl. We had 2 hours to accept her, and of course we prayed and felt like God was giving us this opportunity. We were then told we could pick her up the next morning. Yes. we had 14 hours to prepare for a baby we had no idea about.

Ellie turned one this past Saturday (November 7th). Yes this year has been very difficult, but I would not change it for the world. God has bought this special little girl into our life and I can not imagine life without her. I thank God she had birth parents who were willing to give her a better life, and I pray for them everyday.

Here are some pictures from Ellie's first birthday as well as some we had done of the girls together.