On March 1st 2005 Billie and I decided to adopt another child into our family. Even though we had two beautiful grown daughters and two awesome granddaughters at the time. Our daughters had been on their own for several years and we had always loved having children in our home. We still have 20 years before normal retirement age and we thought it would be a good thing to bring a child out of an orphanage and into a loving home. Some people may think that we are trying to replace our children at home and that is just silly. As you have more children you are adding to them not replacing them. No one would tell us that we we gave birth to our second child that we were replacing the first one, but that our family was growing. The same thing is happening now, our family is growing again and this child will be a wonderful addition to our wonderful family.
Little did we know how long this would take and the amount paper work that we would compile through this process. My wife has put together a notebook with all of the documents and it has grown to over 6" thick in the last 18 months.
We are very thankful and blessed to have the support of our family and friends through this long process and cannot wait to share the event of finally bringing Ashley home.

We are a bit behind on getting this blog started so we will try to catch you up over the next several days with what has been going on through the process. The important thing right now is that on 9/25/2006 we finally received our referral from China.

May God bless you all as He has blessed us.

We are truly "Better than We Deserve" thanks to the Lord.