Our Big Secret...

Some of you know our big secret and some of you don't so I will start from the beginning of the story.

As most of you know, Mike and I have been trying since March of 2008 to have a baby and have not been very successful until this May. We found out on May 23, the day after Landon graduated from Kindergarten that we were FINALLY expecting our bundle of joy that we have been praying for. Everything was going great, but we continued to pray for a healthy baby.

Then on June 22nd the scariest thing happened that could happen when you are pregnant, I started spotting. So we took Landon to my dad's and headed out to the ER to find out, hoping for the best. Well, we didn't get the best news...our baby had no heartbeat and to follow up with our OB the next day. So we did and he said the same thing, no heartbeat and the baby stopped growing at 7 weeks and we thought we were 9 weeks pregnant. It was really scary and we didn't know what to do but cry and be there for each other. The Dr. scheduled me to have a D & C on the 25th. All went fine with that and my mom came to be with us during that procedure. We were both really glad that she came down to be with us.

We were adjusting pretty well to what had just happened. We knew that God had a plan for us and our baby. We also knew that we did not do anything that could have prevented what happened.

Then a few days later, we received a phone call from mom with an answer to our prayers. She knew a teenage girl that was 6 months pregnant and she and the father knew that they are not ready to be parents. So mom told us about this situation and Mike and I both decided that this was our answer to our prayers for a healthy baby. We decided that we would LOVE to adopt the baby and have her become part of our family...that is right, the baby is a girl.

So we have started the process to adopt the baby girl. She will be born around the end of October and we will be on our way up there as soon as we hear she is on her way to see us. Landon is really excited to be a big brother to a little sister. Her name is going to be Mikaela Rowland, middle name still up for debate.

While we are going through the process to adopt Mikaela, Mike is going to adopt Landon. So we will all be a big, happy Rowland family by the spring.

We just really wanted to share these details with our friends and family. We are going to be using this blog as a way to update everyone on our life and the kids. We hope you are all as excited for our new family member as we are.

Check back for more details as they happen. Mike has started to redo her bedroom, so soon we will post pictures of that as it progresses.