I know...it's about time!

So, how many of you have been stalking out blog to find out what is going on? How many of you were hoping in passing, I would just tell you what was going on? Well, my friends, the wait is over....keep reading to find out.

Many of you know the story behind our journey to getting pregnant and having our beautiful son Jack. For those of you that don't, the quick version is that after 2 1/2 years, I finally got pregnant, and after a roller coaster pregnancy, Jack was born.

Now, almost three years later, Wes and I are ready to add to our family. So, I invite each of you to follow this blog as we begin our journey into International Adoption. That's right, the Woodruff family has officially started the process of adopting a baby girl from China! It's weird! As we started discussing the possibility of adding to our family, we both kept coming back to the same conclusion. There are so many children in the world who need a loving home, so why not ours? Many will probably wonder why International, and why China. I will explain all of that in future posts. We have chosen to go with Gladney Center for Adoption, and as of tonight, have officially paid for our application. We will put the paperwork requesting the application in the mail tomorrow.

For those of you that are thinking with Internationl, this should be a quick process, you will probably be as shocked as Wes and I were to learn that to adopt from China, the wait is up to three years from the time all of your paperwork is complete. Part of what has taken me so long to tell everyone about this wonderful journey is we wanted to make sure we were willing to wait three years. If we have been taught anything over the last 5 years though, we aren't in control of this. It is not up to us when we get to add to our family, whether that is through adoption or not. After much debate and a lot of praying, both of us still feel very strongly that this is what we want to do.

So just know, if you want to see the end of this story/journey, you are going to have to follow along on our blog for a LONG time!!! I promise to post regularly though about the process, not only for all of you, but for our future daughter, who will want to know eventually how her parents came to the conclusion to adopt, and the journey we went through as a family to get her.

We couldn't be more excited, and hope that all of you will be too! The Woodruff family will eventually be a family of 4!