Our story...

Eight months ago we started a process that we knew was going to change our lives forever, we just didn't when or how.

 

In October of 2013 Justin brought home papers for an adoption process. He looked at me and said let's do this. So we began the paperwork. Everything was going so smoothly and fast. We couldn't believe it. We were just waiting on our background check to come back from Colorado and our home study would be complete. Well, we waited and waited. Three months had gone by and we had heard nothing. Finally, we found out that Colorado had never received our papers. So then we had to wait even longer for it to be finalized. It was driving us crazy that something so simple was hindering us from having our home study complete. We told ourselves there was a reason our papers were lost.

 

Our papers were lost for this very reason.

 

Our home study was complete at the end of March. We were so excited, nervous and ready for our journey to begin. We continued to pray for the right child and situation every single day. We knew the Lord had picked one precious child for us to take home. We were just patiently awaiting for him or her. The first few weeks we had potentials, but we felt in our hearts that these weren't the right situations for us. More weeks went by and we hadn't heard of any other. We were getting discouraged and were wondering if we had missed our opportunity for our son or daughter.

 

Two months had gone by and Justin and I went into the nursery wiping off the dust from the crib and we looked at each other and wondered when we were going to use this room. We had hit a slump. We tried to not get discouraged, but it was wearing on us. We wanted to be parents and it's so hard not knowing when it is going to happen. We kept telling ourselves we had to be patient and trust.

 

Last Thursday, was one of the hardest days we had in a long time. Everything seemed to be going wrong. We were frustrated, tired and running out of patience. That night Justin and I had a conversation about faith and believing. We had to refocus and give our worries to the Lord. It wasn't our job to worry, the Lord was in control and he wanted us to enjoy every minute of this journey. Little did we know, our son was born that night.

 

Friday morning I woke up feeling different. I asked the Lord to humble me and give him all of my trust. Four hours later I got a call from my husband telling me a mom had picked us and we have a son!! I will never forget that feeling. A feeling of nervousness, excitement and joy. I couldn't stop crying. It's amazing what can happen when you fully trust.

 

We decided to fly out on Saturday to Texas to get our son. We were lucky enough to have a sweet aunt offer us stand by tickets. It appeared to be promising for us to get on the flights. That changed when we got to the airport. We then found out that the flight was oversold and it wasn’t looking good for us to get out that night. As we nervously awaited chaos began. People were missing their flights due to weather and many of them were not going to make their connection to Houston. That was good for us. After waiting for two hours we finally got cleared. We boarded the plane and sat down. The first thing I noticed was that the song “Happy” was playing on the overhead and as I looked out the window, the sun was peeking out from the clouds. This was the first I had seen all day. The Lord was in control and he wasn’t going to let anything stop us from going to Texas to pick up this precious boy he had chosen for us.

James 1:17  Every good and perfect gift is from above

 

 

 

We want to thank everyone that has given us the most amazing love, support and prayers through this. We love you all!!!

We also have a fundraiser that we would like people to be a part of. We have a puzzle that will support bringing home “Baby Mueller”…..we will have more details and pictures later!!