Welcome

Hello and welcome to our blog :)  We thought we'd make an area where we could update people on our lives and our journey to building our family.  Please feel free to follow along!  I just thought I'd start out with our short history.  Tad and I met in January of 1999, got to know one another on a missions trip to North Carolina that summer, and had our first date during Thanksgiving break of that year.  We dated through the rest of my high school years and college.  Tad proposed in January of 2004, and we were married the following year in June. 


the day after we got engaged



June 2005


 After we were married - we lived in Champaign/Urbana for a little over a year, and then moved just north of Green Bay, WI.  As we moved, we got 2 new puppies and enjoyed the craziness that they added to our lives. 


PJ and Colby when they were brand new



Over the years we discussed having kids at length.  We knew that was what we wanted for our little family, but we weren't sure how we wanted to go about it.  I was nervous to be pregnant, and we didn't feel it was necessary that our children be biological so we thought for a while about only adopting.  In the end we decided that it would be interesting to have a biological child - and probably easier to do first, so we decided to start trying for a baby in January of 2009.