Welcome

From the start.  We were married in beautiful downtown La Crosse, WI on Aug 22, 2008, just next to the mighty Mississippi. We've spent the last four years exploring Colorado from our base of operations in Colorado Springs, where Sean works as an active duty officer in the Air Force and Emily is a Rural Educator and Advocate on behalf of a local Non-Profit serving victims of domestic violence and sexual assault.

In Aug of 20l0, we discovered Emily was pregnant. After the initial surprise, we got right down to it. No more fish, lots of prenatal vitamins, and stretchy pants. Our little boy, who we named Theodore, was born on St. Patrick's Day the following year. What a beautiful guy he was! Sadly, a number of congenital defects combined to take his life 24 days later on 10 Apr 2011. We've been to a geneticist with Denver Children's Hospital twice in an attempt to figure out why all this happened, but don't know anything conclusive yet.

Our short time with Theo reminded us both how precious (and precarious) life is. We knew we still wanted children, but we also knew that it would be too difficult to try again ourselves until we had more information about the odds of it happening a second time. What about adoption? We were friends with two couples already who had begun the process. After lots of thought, prayer and some invaluable mentoring, we made the choice together to make adopting a child a personal and financial priority.

We'd like to invite you, our family and friends, to join us on this journey. Our intent is to share with you our every step through the adoption process on this blog. You can share with us too. Leave a comment, say a prayer, make a donation; everything helps. 


Thank you!