I love this photo, not because it’s the “worlds greatest family photo” because as art goes, it’s pretty underwhelming.  But if you look at the faces of the adults you see the beauty that Jon and I see in this shot.  As many of you, our friends and clients know, our 2 beautiful daughters came to us by way of adoption.  We started this journey about 3 years ago with a core group of about 8 other couples as part of a support group for adoptive families formed through an organization called “With Child.” I can remember looking around this room of couples, all with different stories yet we were all the same.  We all really, really wanted to be parents.  We came together every month or so, to support each other, pray together and sometimes cry the tears of joy and sadness as we experienced the ups and downs of adoption together. It took a little over 2 years, but the entire core group now has the delightful sounds of little feet running and crawling through our homes, (and in our case photo studio).

This photograph was an impromptu shot taken at one of our get-togethers in February.  It’s a snapshot of the happy faces of hope realized. What a miracle!

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