Family & Marriage

Welcome Home Embryos!

Dear Dan and Kristin, Your two babies are tucked away safely in me, taking residence with Jesus who also lives in me. This is the text we received at 10:36am this morning from Brenda. Got a little teary-eyed after reading that one! Praise be to God that our embryos are safe in her womb and most…

TWO Embryos

Quick update! TWO embryos fertilized!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! The nurse called at 8:30am this morning and said 8 eggs were retrieved, one was immature, BUT, two FERTILIZED! I can’t tell you how much joy I have in my heart right now. To think that there are two Dan and Kristin’s hanging out at the clinic right now. It is…

Continuing the Story…

Continuing our embryo adoption story… Our hearts ached. Ached and ached for those who were in the same predicament we were in: desiring children. Dan and I would sit in our living room and have conversation after conversation, talking about how we could possibly help these couples. These couples can carry, but cannot conceive. We…

Sterk Update

So what’s been up with the Sterks? We are almost done with our boat! We just have to carpet it, which we are waiting for (the carpet that is). We keep getting the run around with the store, but nevertheless, it’ll get done – at some point. We are just so excited to take more…

6 Year Ago Today We…

Today we celebrate 6 blessed years of marriage! Hard to believe it has been 6 years – but then we think about what has all happened in those 6 years and we ask ourselves – really? Has it only been 6 years? On May 12, 2006, it was a cold and rainy 39 degree day,…