Therefore I tell you, whatever you ask in prayer, believe that you have received it, and it will be yours. Thursday, May 1, 2014. 2013 was not our best year. But we made it through.

I am regularly updating our adoption blog. These days, so hop over there and follow along as we share about our lives and hope to adopt again! Posted by Ashley Allen. Well, a few things changed. I realized when emailing with a friend this week that this blog has not been updated in over 5 months. We had a great Christmas. We played some games with family, including a ridiculously large version of Tripoly.

Thursday, October 2, 2014. Photo Shoot and Growing Girl. On Monday, September 1st 2014 our good friend from High School, Ashley Stephenson, took our first family photos. At a Dash baseball game. Jacob is in first grade. Is this true or false? The class grew silent.

Tuesday, January 14, 2014. Why his birth is my miracle. They call it secondary infertility. While you are going on with life and dreaming of that big family your body is going nutty on ya. But the longing never went away. When those two lines showed up last April I looked at the test 100 times.

Saturday, December 5, 2015. I crawled in the back of the closet this morning and dug out my box. Deep down I hoped that it would still smell like him. The scarf I wore that night that caught hundreds of tears and now wrapped my sweet memories tight. I hoped it would have the faintest smell of him. I was never mad at God.