Nathan's Story

Nathan is such a gift to Tom and I from God who loves his children and blesses them when they least expect it. We were able to pick out his name. We picked out Nathanael because it means God's gift. We had so much fun announcing that we were going to be parents! Everyone was so excited for us. We found out that his due date was April 7th, 2011. So we had from February 25th-April 7th to prepare for our sweet boy. How fun it was to day dream about my son while I was trying to finish my school. But I was also concern that something would happen to us getting him.

But Nathan was also prayed for before he was even a thought in our hearts and mind. The Easter of 2010, we were at a friends house celebrating the resurrection of our Lord when our friends Dana and Brenda thought to pray for us along side with the others that were there. that God will bless us with children before the Easter of this year. I thought of that prayer a couple weeks before we were told about Nathan. I figured that it wasn't going to happen because I wasn't pregnant. But then I remembered and realized that Nathan was going to be born before Easter. How incredible. What a precious precious gift.

The journey towards our son:)

Tom and I have talked about adoptions for years. We decided to wait till I graduated from college in May to start the process. But God works for us even when we don't see it coming.

I had made plans to go to Uganda this June with some Facebook friends to visit our friend Christi in the village that she works and lives in. But then February 25th, I got a call that would change my life forever. My friend Sally who I have known for 8 years called me. We just talked for awhile then she asked if I had a minute. She said that she had a niece who was pregnant with a little boy. Would we want the baby? My heart already said yes. But I needed to talk to my husband. It didn't take us that long to make the decision to say yes. The following day, we went to register at Babies R Us. What a fun experience that was to register for our son when I had been to so many showers in my almost 37 years. But overwhelming with so many choices. We then went to Red Robin for a late dinner.

The whole month went so fast between getting our house ready for a newborn and us doing our normal life. We also got a lawyer to help us with the paperwork. Everything come together.
Now our lives is about this precious little one who deserves a post on his own.

1st week Photo's

We were so blessed to have Sara Field take pictures of our sweet boy when he was only one week old. It was enjoyable time! Nathan also did a great job too. Thanks Sara Field for giving us priceless treasure of our son! We got pictures and a slideshow of our precious son!

Nathan's birth

The Friday before he was born, I was at the science lab at school when I received the call that the birth's mom water had broke. So I hurried out of there and called Tom on the way home and told him that the baby was on his way:) When I got home, I finished making sure that I had everything ready for our stay at the hospital and for Nathan:) When Tom got home, we loaded up and got to the hospital. When we got there, we checked in with the birth family:) We had some time on our own while the nurse found out that the birth mom's water officially broke. But the nurse told us that labor would start in the morning. So we went out to dinner because we didn't know when we would get to go on a date again. It was surreal to think that the next morning we would be parents. Then we went to Target just to make sure we had everything we needed when we got home. It was so fun to be so close to our son. We went home and went straight to bed.

                                                Me holding our son! He is so precious and I couldn't believe he was in my arms!

The following morning I woke up at 6:30 exactly and called the hospital to see what the status was. The nurse told us to come in. So we quickly got ready and head to the hospital. We were told to wait in one of the waiting rooms. We weren't in there for very long when the birth mom's mom and the nurse came in and told us that we have a son. WOW!!!! I was given my bracelet and took us to our room. We were given a room at the hospital. So we went to the room and we got settled. We had our stuff and the baby's bag that was stuffed with everything the baby might have needed. About 15 minutes later, they wheeled our son in our room. Oh my goodness. My heart just burst at the sight of our beautiful son. They let us bond with our son. What a incredible moment that was when I was able to hold him! He was perfect in every way and continues to be. We had a couple of visitors. Our friends Mark and Kathy Schuyler came by and then we had Stacey George. Carrie McChesney came by too. It was so fun to have them all meet Nathan. The only scary part was after his bath, the nurse noticed his breathing was a little off. So they took him to the nursery for observation. But due to it was during the closed hours, we had to just leave our son. That seemed like forever to this new mommy. I kept looking at the clock. When it was almost time, we decided to wait by the door to be able to see our son. The nurse wheeled him out to us and told us that he was fine. We were so relieved. So we spent the night in the hospital taking care of our newborn son. Sunday was a day of tests and finishing the legal paperwork for us to take Nathan home

Welcome to the World Precious Nathan! You are very loved by our parents and the mother who gave you to us!

                                                        Going home outfit!