Adoption fundraiser for our miracle

A boy, A girl, and a baby:

Hi my name is Mindy. I was born with Cystic Fibrosis. It is a disease that causes thick sticky mucus all over the body. It mostly effects the lungs, sinuses, digestive tract, pancreas, and well lets face it the whole body. This has led to many hospitalizations, infections, and treatments every day since I was little. I take over 35 pills a day, do 2-4 breathing treatments, take digestive enzymes, and do numerous sinus rinses just to try to stay healthy and strong. For someone with Cystic Fibrosis I am blessed immeasurably to be able to be healthy. This however does not come without its obstacles.. Thus our story..

Luke... Luke is my husband. I fell for him when I was twelve and he was 17 ... thats right I was in 6th grade and he was in high school... awkward right? Its a good thing as you get older 5 years isn's as big of a deal ;) Well I never said anything to the hot boy who lived a couple houses away because hello I was a baby compared to him... fast forwarding many years,I moved from our neighborhood to day break. There was  high school graduations, an Lds mission (for him), boyfriends, girlfriends (for him),  and Surgical technology school for me. One day I had seen a post he had written on Facebook and I remembered all of those feelings I had when I was a young girl, and decided to write him a message.. you are going to laugh when you hear it....

Imagine his facebook wall.. ( remember he only vaguely remembers me as the LITTLE girl in his ward.)

Me: we should be friends
Luke: I thought we were friends (as in he had accepted my friend request at one point) 
Me: usually friends talk

and then I messaged him my number yada yada yada... we went on a date the next day.. (we don't waste time here obviously) and it was just so comfortable. He was so nice to me and im not going to lie he was hilarious... six months later (two years ago) we got married.

Now going back to the Cystic Fibrosis. Because of the lovely mucus that well lets face it... Invades my body, that also includes cervical mucus. Thus making it incredibly difficult to get pregnant. We decided at about 8 months of being married to start trying. I thought "oh I am a healthy CFer (thats what people with Cystic Fibrosis call themselves in short) it wont be too big of a deal... WRONG. I am a pretty optomistic person, and sometimes my optomism makes me forget how serious and real my disease is. 

Well 17 months later, (now) after trying many things we have thus far been unable to get pregnant. I want nothing more than to be a mom. I love children. Even when my neighbors just let me babysit their kids I find so much joy in the special spirit they bring into my home. Luke and I are very religious and through out this process have knelt in prayer many times pleading to God to help us to be able to start our family. 

One day we had the impression ( and we had discussed the option before, in light of my condition we knew it may be difficult to concieve) that we were supposed to adopt. We both felt right about it, and jumped on the process. We currently are almost all the way ready for our home study and after we get that done we will be able to put our profile up ( using adoption.com) to hopefully bring our little miracle home. 

This is a really hard subject for me to talk about. I have always remained optomistic about having kids, even to this day when people get pregnant I feel SO much joy for them. People are often tell me they were afraid to tell me they are pregnant because they didn't want to i guess "rub salt in the wound". However thats not me.. Children are a miracle from God and I am beyond thrilled to hear that the people I care about are recieving such a wonderful gift. The gift of parenthood. The reason it is hard for me is because no one wants to feel like they have something wrong with them... ( in my case something ELSE something MORE wrong with them) 

Adopting gives me so much hope. I watch Luke with our nieces and nephews and see is pure love for those that aren't even our children, and it makes me love him even more. He has a heart of solid gold, and I know that he will be an amazing dad. I also know that he really wants children but is so kind, patient, faithful, and sensitive about it. He always is as well optomistic and has helped be my rock to not feeling like I am "useless" or "broken". 

That being said.. adoption is expensive.. I wasn't going to funraise at first because every year we try and raise money for Cystic Fibrosis. I didn't want to burden anyone... but the fact of the matter is.. we need help.. its so hard to admit that.. but we do.. SO... I have decided that for the sake of our future miracle family, please donate to this fund so that Luke and I can be able to help give a baby a home. A home that has been yearning, searching, to start a family and share some of an incredibly large amount of love we have to give. 

We so appreciate any and all donations, and thank you for taking the time to read our story. We would also be very grateful if you shared our story, and spread the word of our hope and journey to adopt.  

Many thanks to all of you. You mean more to us than you will ever know.

Mindy and Luke