Our Prayer Support Letter

I wanted to share with everyone the prayer letter that we sent out to very close friends and family. I hope you enjoy it and find it informative, as well.

Dear ,

We have some exciting news to share with you!  Many of you may or may not know that Cody and I have struggled with infertility for the last three years.  It has been a long and often times heart breaking journey, but through it all we have continued to look to God and what His plans might be for our lives.  That brings us to our news:  we have decided to begin the adoption process!  We did not come to this decision lightly but are excited for where this journey will take us. 

After interviewing with multiple agencies, Cody and I have chosen one that we feel very comfortable with.  We decided to go through an organization called MapleStar.  MapleStar is an organization within multiple states and is well known for their adoption efforts, and they have two offices in Colorado.

We ask that you keep us and the journey we are about to embark on in your prayers.  We have wanted a baby for some time now and know that God has the perfect child out there for us!  Along with that prayer we ask that you would pray for the family that our child is currently with. We are adopting out of foster care, so please keep our child/children in your prayers as well. They are out there somewhere and I’m sure they could use all the prayer they can get.  This journey, while looking different for everyone, can be very long and is always full of unknowns and heightened emotions. Once we complete our home study process (our final meeting is December 18^th!) we embark on the challenging journey of waiting. So, we would ask for prayers for God’s will, favor and grace, and for patience for us as we wait for the child that we know God has chosen for us.

With adopting out of foster care, there is always the possibility that the children that we care for will end up going back home to their birth parents, so I would also like to ask you to pray that Cody and I would have the strength and coping skills to handle that, as well as the wisdom and compassion to know how to support each other through it.

We appreciate you walking beside us and keeping us lifted up in your prayers as we walk this journey into the unknown more than words can say.  We love each and every one of you and are so very blessed to have you in our lives.  Please let us know if you would like to receive updates from us as we embark on this exciting adventure that we believe God began in our hearts and lives long ago.

With all our love and appreciation,

 

Cody and Bonnie

New Year, New Hope

I am very much looking forward to this new year beginning.  We have come so far since this point last year.  At this time last year I was still processing our first IUI that had failed. I was going through a short bout of feeling a little depressed. In March we did our second IUI, which also failed, and shortly after that is when we made the decision to adopt. We have spent months upon months filling out paper work, taking classes, and doing our home study in order to prepare for foster care.  The beginning of this year will include finally being certified to foster, and hopefully shortly after that getting an actual placement of a baby that we can love on and provide a safe, loving environment for. I'm so excited!!!

Home Study

Wow, we are two thirds of the way through our home study process!!  These last few weeks have been quite hectic for us. We have been doing so much to prepare for these visits. We donated a bunch of stuff, and moved even more stuff to our storage unit. It's been a long time since our apartment looked this good, lol. I definitely should have taken some before and after photos. I will try to do that for the nursery.  It is already most of the way set up, the crib is almost complete (we are missing some bolts and had to order them) and we have our changing table ready with tons of storage. I still need to put up a couple of decorations and move some of the furniture around.

This week we had 2 of the 3 visits. The actual part where they looked around our home lasted maybe 5 minutes. The rest of it has consisted of interviews. Both visits lasted about 2 1/2 hours. The first one wasn't bad at all, it seemed very light. Tonight's was a lot more in depth, but not as bad as I thought it would be. We had even more paper work that we had to fill out this week, as if the whole application wasn't enough, lol. I actually really enjoy filling out stuff like that, so I'm not complaining.

We have one more visit this upcoming Tuesday afternoon, and assuming that we get everything completed then (there's a small possibility that we may need one more visit, depending on how long next weeks takes) then we will just have to wait for one of our government background checks to finally come back and we will hopefully be officially certified to accept foster care placements! We are so excited!  Once that happens we will be able to say that we are "paper pregnant", and I can't wait!