Adoption will grow our family.  

Angela is a survivor of Hodgkin's Disease, we have known there was a very good chance we would not be able to get pregnant due to chemo and radiation treatments she endured over 10 years ago.  We decided not to find out why we were not getting pregnant because there are SO many children that need a loving home and we want to give that to a child.  Biological or adopted is not an issue for either of us and it seemed silly to spend money on fertility testing and possibly still come out without a child.  It was more practical to put money towards adoption.  We had always heard how expensive it was so we had talked about it but never really researched or acted on it.  We really thought it was just a dream for us - then one day a friend told me of an adoption class being offered at her church.  We went and learned of different options Domestic, International, Agency, Private, Foster Care it was very overwhelming.  We never thought about International until we learned some of the risks and costs involved in Domestic adoption.  We explored several countries and for one reason or another kept being led back to the "Lost Daughters of China"

It is expensive and we were unsure we really could make this happen- but Sean and I have been budgeting, saving, fundraising, working overtime and more to be able to make this dream come true.