Learning through trials {adoption}

So lately I have been typing up Lauren and I’s texts we sent each other so we could have them saved somewhere.  It has been so fun to remember what we first talked about before we actually met in person.  It was like any relationship when it first starts-a little…

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Family ties {adoption}

In five days we get to finalize our adoption.  I want to share a little more about our adoption story over the next few days and also honor the two people that made it possible for Alayna to be part of our family, her birthparents, Lauren and Matt.  This story…

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Happy Birthmother’s Day!

Happy Birthmother’s Day to all of the amazing and selfless Birthmother’s out there, especially the one that made me a mother to our daughter, our birthmother, Lauren. 😀 Many people don’t know that there is a day honoring Birthmother’s so I wanted to do a post about it.  If you…

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Alayna’s Photo Birth Story

Today I want to share with you Alayna’s birth story. I have never shot one before and it was one of the most sacred, wonderful experience I have EVER had. I was so honored to be in the room when she was born. I wanted so much to have her…

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Placement of Alayna

Thank you Brittany Cascio for taking the pictures of this sacred moment.  I chose this song because it sounds like to me each beat is like a step hard to take.  That is exactly what this day felt like.  This is my side of our story.  I know Lauren has…

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Meeting Alayna

On Sunday we took our boys to the hospital to meet baby Alayna.  It was an amazing, spiritual experience and it was just so wonderful to have our whole family together-including Matt and Lauren.  They are part of our family forever 😀   My friend Davey Orgill from Pointe Digital came…

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