Meeting Up With Mama E (Spear’s Birth Family)

I started writing about our meet-up with some of Spear’s biological family as part of his monthly update post for his 7th month of life and realized I just had WAY too much to say…

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Bryant Spear: Behind the Name

Naming our children is something we take pretty seriously. We have a few “rules” we try to follow when naming all of our kids: 1. We don’t name them after relatives, including ourselves. Our reasons…

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Our Adoption Journey: Frequently Asked Questions

Our Adoption Journey: Frequently Asked Questions. When we first announced our plans to adopt I wrote this post on some questions and answers to things I anticipated being asked early in the process. Now that’s…

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16 Months Waiting (AKA: The Month We Got Matched)

This post covers a bit less than a month but that’s okay…there is PLENTY to discuss 😉 It covers August 7th – August 29th. Our 16th month into the adoption process! If you’d like to…

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Tess’s Birth Story {By Daddy}

With the birth of each of our babies, I love that Zach writes his version of the story. I think it’s so great for our kids to have somethings that Daddy writes too instead of it all just being…

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