Welcome to the blog!

We've been talking for a long time about starting a blog about the whole process and journey to bring Benjamin home, and here it is (finally.....) We're really hoping this will be a great way to keep all our friends and family along with us throughout the whole process, as well as be a good story for Benjamin later on. We've gotten into reading other families' adoption blogs, and have learned a lot from them - hopefully we can return the favor for families behind us in the process.

For those of you who don't know us, we're Brian and Jen. We met through work about 14 years ago now, eventually started dating, and got married almost 8 years ago now. We have a 4 year old son, Christopher, as well as all the critters: JackJack the dog, 2 cats, 2 horses, and a herd of chickens.

We started considering adoption a few years ago, knowing that we wanted another child. It kept getting pushed onto the back burner for all the other stuff that comes up in life. Finally last winter, we decided once and for all that this was what we needed to do to make our family complete. We spent a lot of time researching the whole process, looking into agencies around us, and considering different programs. We both came to the decision that adopting a child from China was the perfect match for our family, and started off on the path to bringing home our child.

It's been about a year since we started towards this, and we're getting closer every day to Benjamin being home with us.