We recently got to start our greatest adventure of all. Let me give you a
little background to begin. A woman in another state was pregnant and was
considering adoption. Her family had worked with a lawyer in the past so she decided to work with him for her adoption. This
lawyer just happens to be LDS
and usually works with his own list of families but he said he felt they were not the families and that he should call
LDS Family Services. Now during the summer we had been working at the
temple in the baptistery. Our case worker came
in one time with his ward. We said our
hellos and thought nothing more of it. Then in the middle of August we got a call
from him. He had got the call from the lawyer and told us there was a
mother wanting to adopt. She wanted a closed adoption
and that she was due in October and he asked if we were interested. After talking about it we told him that we were. All we could do then is sit and wait.
Over
the next few weeks we kept the news on the down low. We didn’t want to
get our hopes up if it happened to fall through. We finally heard that the birth mother was ready to deliver and the baby could come
soon. He was born at the end of September. We decided to leave that
night he was born to go pick him up. Jason worked that day
and so I picked him up and we drove through the night. We stopped at a
rest stop and slept for a few hours and then got to the hotel and changed and went
to the hospital.
1st pic
When
we got there we met with the lawyer and he said that he talked to the
birth mom and she wanted to meet us. All of a sudden we got really
nervous cause we were told she didn’t want to meet us. We went into an
empty room down the hall
from her. The baby was having testing done and she wanted him in there
when we met. An hour or so later we went into the other room to meet the
birth mom and our son. She was there with her mom and aunt and another
daughter. We talked about how special he
was and how we would make sure we would take care of him. We said our good byes and went back to the other room. We were discharged and went back to the hotel then came back to Denver the next day. We also decided to name him Ben.
1st meeting in the hospital
When we got home we had a lot visitors and a lot of love and support. Some friends were kind enough to through a shower.
He got to meet his grandparents and Dave and Jodi.
so sweet!!!
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