Ron and Julie

Ron and I have to be so serious in our jobs that we make up for it in our playtime by having fun. We love Disney and the zoo and almost anything outdoors. We spend a lot of time with our dogs. We just built a house and we are spending the entire summer putting up fencing and landscaping the property and doing all those things we won't have time for when our daughter gets here. We moved in during the adoption process and that caused a few glitches but we got through it. Our house was designed with our daughter in mind and, of course, has Disney in the decor.

A Long Process

Ron and I started the adoption process in September of 2003. We had been wondering about it for years. We went to a Steven Curtis Chapman concert and he talked about the "Miracle of Adoption" as a testimony since he had adopted a little girl from China. We felt so strongly this was what we should do that we started the process of looking for an agency.

Without going into all the details, I will tell you that it is a time-consuming process. Because we both were in the military and moved around so much, tracking down the documents was a challenge in itself. When we started this process, we truly did not know how we were going to pay for it but believed that as we obeyed, God would make the finances possible. We have been blessed financially and are still wading through the paperwork but it is going! As of September 2005 we are waiting on documents from INS and the Chinese Consulates to return to us so that we can move forward in the process.