Starting A Family

After a year and a half into our marriage we wanted to start growing our family. So we prayed and talked and felt that we should go ahead and start trying. After about a year of trying we began to get worried. We decided to talk to a doctor, and just make sure everything was as it should, and what we should do. So Holly’s Doctor ordered some tests, and we waited. A few weeks later, January 17,2011 to be exact, we received a phone call from my doctor telling us that Ryan’s test came back with no sperm. I was is shock. Of course I immediately started crying and was upset. My doctor told me not to give up just yet, that she wanted to do some more test and send him to a specialist in Raleigh. Over the next few months of traveling back and forth from Raleigh,thanks to Cerisa for letting me miss so much work, after a biopsy of hopes to retrieve sperm because all hormone checks came back normal, the final word was Ryan was born sterile. At that moment I can’t explain the peace that came over my body. I knew at that instant that God had bigger things for us. We had talked about the different options of becoming parents and knew that if God did not have it for us to have children naturally then He wanted us to do foster care. So, after our final doctors appointment we got in the car and Ryan called Pender County DSS and put us on the list to start taking the classes. I hope ya’ll enjoy reading our blog and please continue to pray for us...next blog will be about starting the foster care process! I thought this picture was funny! ENJOY! p.s. look at Ryan's face :)