2025 has been a very busy year, and we're hoping to regain some balance in 2026.
Adoption
We've matched with a little girl in Hong Kong: "Anya". While the process is slow and ongoing, we're hopeful that we'll be able to bring her home early next year. Unbelievably, we have been trying to adopt for 8 years. You'd think it'd be easier to give an orphan a home, but this has been a surprisingly long and arduous process.
Kids
Jaedyn is in her 2nd year at her private Christian school, and she loves it. She continues to enjoy playing soccer in our neighborhood league, but she's aging out of that and hopes to play for her school's middle school team this coming spring. She's growing up too quickly! She's into fashion and has become somewhat of a fashionista. She also started a cat-sitting business.
Kaleb moves from obsession to obsession. This past year it's been baseball, Legos, and Elvis — in that order. His baseball team won 2nd place in the city league. He enjoys putting together Lego Star Wars sets and listening to Elvis. He was also introduced to Harry Potter this past year and for some reason thinks he belongs in the Hufflepuff house — even though he can't name a single character from that house.
Jake & Kyla
Kyla still works for a clinic as a pediatric nurse practitioner. Her days are spent shuttling kids to activities and staying on top of our adoption process.
Jake's nonprofit, The Apologist Project, is picking up steam. Major ministries have signed up to share their content and implement chatbots using the platform. He's been crazy busy between that and his day job. Please pray for discernment and peace as juggles his many obligations.
