The year I graduated High School I went to Dominican Republic on a mission trip for 2 weeks. It was life changing. While I was there I saw homeless and hungry children. I just wanted to take them all home. After I got home I started sponsoring a child through World Vision- and of course she was from Dominican Republic.Aaron at the same time frame in his life, went to Honduras and Nicaragua. He saw hurting and hungry children and it pulled on his heart, and he came home and started sponsoring a little boy through World Vision.
With this being said, we were not dating and really didn't know each other. This is a God thing for sure.
Fastforwarding our lives we got married in Oct. of 2000 and have 2 beautiful children. We have a 4 year old boy, Gavin and 2 year old girl, Whitney.My first pregnancy was extremely difficult. I threw up 10-20 times a day for the first 7 months. I had lots of back pain, never felt good, and lost weight the first 5 months of being pregnant. I then got pre-clampsia and had high blood pressure, protein in my urine, and saw spots in my eyes. ( all signs of pre-clampsia) I was in the doctors office every other day. I was on bedrest the last 4 weeks of my pregnancy. I was induced at the hospital for 3 days and it didn't take. So I went home. I delievered within the next week and had a long labor and delivery . I had a stage 4 tear, and then got mastitis. My body was under so much stress.My pregnancy with Whitney was better- I still threw up but did not get the pre-clampsia. Praise God.I just struggle with pregnancy and God has truely blessed us with two biological children. We love kids and have a heart for children. We both had a very strong urge to look into adoption.We were both very open to adoption and want to make a difference to a child.