Stars shone and the air was crisp on that fall night.  We had just began our courtship and were learning about each others' hopes and dreams.  When the topic of adoption came up, we were in unison on the idea of growing a family through adoption.  We agreed that along with having biological children we wanted to open our hearts to parenting a child through adoption.  Our hearts were broken after we discovered I was unable to conceive.  The conversation we had on that fall night stirred in both our hearts.  We were sad we may never hear "they have your eyes.", but the dream of adoption became our hearts cry.

We began the adoption process one year ago having no idea all that it entailed.  Now with joy in our hearts,  birthparents have come into our lives!  We have always believed in a semi-open adoptin (where the birthparents and our adopted child have a relationship from the very beginning) is the best for everyone involved.  We are so blessed that these birthparents have a desire to be apart of our family and we have been building a relationship with them for the past 4 months.

As you know, the cost of adoption is very expensive.  That is why we are reaching out to our friends, family and community to help raise support for this wonderful blessing.  Her name is Eliana, which in Hebrew means "God has answered".  She is due October 23,2011.  We believe her life will be a blessing to the world and to everyone whose life she touches.  We are so thankful to the birthparents for this wonderful blessing! 

We have a goal to raise $8,000 to help with the cost of the adoption.  Would you consider being apart of our support team through prayer and giving to The Eliana Project?  We are working on t-shirts, scratch cards, bake sales and doing a raffle for some pretty cool stuff! Please feel free to contact us with questions and keep checking back on the updates with our goal and all the cool things to help raise support for sweet baby Eliana.