Hi! We are The Lamb’s! We are fundraising for our baby adoption. We can’t wait to tell you our beautiful story!

If you had told us 11 years ago what God’s plan was for our family, we wouldn’t have believed you. God has moved in ways and given us peace so unhinged from Earthly worry. We can’t wait to tell you our story.

On a dating app, 11 years ago, this handsome guy asked me out on a date and the rest is history. When you’ve found your person everything else makes sense and everything falls into place with ease. I knew the Lord had done that when I met Lee. I had no reservations or doubt our life would be absolutely blissful and beautiful & it is. Now fast forward the dating stages and engagement and we start really talking about how we want plan your family. Now if you know Lee and I, we started planning our family on our second date. Lee and I have always, always wanted children. We wanted a large family. Lee comes from a large family with cousins, aunts and uncles out the wazzu & my immediate was relatively small, comparatively. We started with an appointment at North Florida with our first OB/GYN. We had told him after we were married what our plans were and what my cycle symptoms/ effects in my body were at that time. He had suggested a plan to be able to get pregnant when we were ready. We went through three months of trials at this clinic for baseline information and nothing was truly found out. After this we decided to go to North Florida: Women’s Comprehensive Health. We were assigned Dr. Marichal. We adore him. We were under Dr. Marichal’s care for three years. During this time, we found out I had anovulation, insulin resistance PCOS and diagnosed on symptoms- endometriosis. Dr. Marichal suggested a surgery to remove the endometriosis. I was terrified so we decided to try with assistance without it first. We did a few cycles of Letrozole/ Clomid, trigger shots which ultimately lead us to our first failed IUI by the end of year three.

Lee and I at this time decided that we were going to take a break for physical, emotional, mental and spiritual rest. During that time we had mentioned and talked about adoption and started to look into it. It was 2020 and not only were adoption agencies not taking on any other prospective families that we had looked into at that time but our clinic deemed our infertility treatments as nonemergency and our plan was put on hold. Around Summer of 2020, we did a zoom call with Dr. Marichal, where he explained to us what he felt would be the best next steps and we agreed. We would be moving to an infertility clinic with Jacksonville Center of Reproductive Medicine with Dr. Fox/ Lipari. When the lockdown aspect of 2020 was lifted, we had our first meeting with Brittany Poe. When I tell you, Brittany is an angel on Earth and we are so fortunate to have been under her care for our two years- it’s truth. We will be forever grateful for the empathy, sympathy and efforts given to us to try and build our family how we were thought to be intended to, but God had other plans. We continued with Brittany Poe and did several rounds of infertility treatments all accompanied by birth control, injections for follicle plumping, along with oral medication to be taken certain days of the cycle, ending with a trigger shot and timed intimacy. After several attempts with no success, Lee and I had a serious talk. I knew I needed to not be scared. I needed to have the exploratory surgery to remove the very assumed presence of endometriosis. At this point in time, my cycles had gotten so bad that at least one day out of the cycles, if it did not hit on the weekend, I would either call out of work or be so ill at work that I went home. We went in for the consultation for surgery and found out that I could have it in four days. We were completely shocked, but ready. I went in for my surgery completely terrified and crying. I woke up from anesthesia still crying and in a panic because I didn’t know where Lee was. Dr. Fox discovered not only did I have moderate stage two endometriosis, I had legions in my uterine wall along with polyps and cyst on my ovaries. They were able to remove everything. I can say thankfully since then, I have no longer experienced the pain that I had been. Praise the Lord!!

Recovery was simple, though filled with bloat and discomfort that was nothing compared to before. Lee and I then started talking next steps. This is when God started massively changing our prospective. Not only did we leave our clinic with Dr. Fox due to only need to know reasons but we started talking about adoption again. At this time, mentally, spiritually and emotionally, we were our strongest. We felt a calling and a peace on our hearts that we had never felt before. Lee and I gave ourselves a whole week before we had our conversation together. We were to pray and think on it. I remember so specifically calling my Dad in tears and telling him all my angst and worry and also what if I couldn’t have my own. What if we built our family a different way? Of course in true Dad fashion and not missing a beat, “that baby would be the luckiest baby to have you as parents.” Then on the radio a few days later had something about adoption came up from the one minute of encouragement on KLOVE. I had been praying for God to speak to me and give me peace about the decision that I knew we had to make come Sunday. I texted Lee and I said “I know we’re supposed to wait until Sunday to talk about this but I can’t wait any longer.” He took in all my words and thoughts that were racing to come out of my mouth. We entertained the timeline of waiting until Sunday even though we’d check on each other daily to see how we were feeling. Sunday came and when we both said that we wanted to adopt to build our family- in that exact moment, it was like a covering of love was just placed around us. We lived in that happy bubble all day.

Lee and I always wanted to adopt. It’s been on our letters we’ve written to each other each year since we started dating 11 years ago. Not ever in our wildest dreams did we think this is how we would build our family initially and forever. It’s always something I thought we would do after we had our own children but again when it came down to it, God slowly started to move the pieces, our hearts & our perspective. We are so beyond grateful to finally be able to announce…

THE LAMB’S ARE ADOPTING!!

We have signed on with Evermore Consultants and are currently finishing up home study paperwork and building our family book to be presented to birth Mamas. We cannot tell you the joy that it brings to us to know the peace God has given us in this decision. We know He will always provide a way. With all of this and a very tender heart we cannot tell you how ecstatic we are! Though there have been overwhelming times during this short amount of time, we have steadfast in our faith of knowing our story is already known & so is our birth Mama’s/ baby’s!

From our journey of infertility for 6 years to making the peace- filled decision to adopt- finically speaking, it’s a lot. By a lot, we mean expensive. We never want anyone to feel the need to donate towards our adoption. We have had a hard time formulating this part of our story. I was once told by a sweet friend that “others want to bless others” & to include this in our story. Our small town and our people have blessed us beyond measure with love and support throughout this journey. As we share this publicly, we know this will reach others. If you feel a pull to help financially towards our baby adoption please feel free to follow the GoFundMe link. Please feel free to share our post on your social media platforms. Love & support is always free! We will gladly continue to take anything & everything you pour into us as we continue our journey to Baby Lamb!

With all of this being said-

We haven’t even met you yet and we are so in love with you baby Lamb! God knew the desires of our hearts to be parents. We know this journey will be full of emotions and trials but above all else, our family becoming complete. We are excited and terrified but in the best possible way. Here’s to us babe, Parenthood.

With all our love,

The Lamb’s