Silas is 11!!

Today is Silas' birthday. It is interesting timing to have his birthday fall in this week when our future with Samuel is suddenly uncertain. Our adoption of Silas was a huge faith building experience for us and for his amazing birthmom. We all had faith (and still do!) that Silas was in God's hands. He was meant to have the birth parents he had. He was also meant to have Mike and I as his mom and dad. The week Silas was born I lost 10 pounds because of the anxiety of feeling uncertain about the outcome with him and if we would truly be able to adopt him. Yet, that whole week we prayed that God's will would be done - we didn't just pray that he would be ours because though we knew we wanted him we knew he deserved God's best and only God knew what that was. So, here we are 11 years later marveling at the talented, kind, full of life boy we have and so amazed by what God did and also in a new uncertain situation with Samuel. We are praying God's best for Samuel, though we know we want him. Please join us in prayer that God would have his hand on Samuel and on the court hearing on the 29th and that the outcome will be his will.