Hi,
This is the beautiful baby from Guatemala that we are waiting on. Her birth name is Anayeli, but we are going to name her Kellianna Maria.
Isn't she gorgeous with her pudgy cheeks, cute nose and that head full of hair!!
My husband and I have been married for 17 years and although we have 4 biological children and one adopted child who we just adopted on Dec. 12,2007, we really felt led to adopt a baby.
We have been foster parents for over three years and we have felt the loss of several children who have came and left us. When the older children leave, you know in your heart that you have made a difference and you hope that one day they will come back and visit you and we have had a few come back and visit or call. When a baby leaves, you don't know whether you will ever see the child again and you know that they will not remember you as they get older.
My 13 year old girl told me one day after a baby we had fostered for nine months had left us, "Mom i want another baby to come live with us, but I don't want her to have to leave-"I want her to stay forever". A couple months later I had dreamed that I was pregnant, but when I awoke I remembered that I could not physically have anymore children. I was very saddened when reality set in so............ the journey to our adoption began.
After several weeks of researching Surrogate mothers, searching agencies, speaking to unfriendly agencies, and researching domestic adoptions, God led me to Celebrate Children Agency. From the first conversation on the phone with Angela at CCI, I felt a sense of hope and complete confidence in this agency.
Because My husband and I were already foster parents, I had hoped that our Homestudy would be sufficient for an International Adoption, but ours was too old so we began our paperwork process.
