Welcome to our House of Hope

Thanks for coming to check in on us. This is our story. Ellis was our first...the one who made us a mommy and a daddy. In April 2011 we went in for a routine ultrasound at 21 weeks, hoping to find out if Baby Henry was a boy or a girl. Instead, we discovered that there was something very wrong. Soon, our little boy was diagnosed with holoprosencephaly, HPE for short. We have HoPE that God is in the details, even when the days seem dark. He was there as we waited for Ellis to enter this world and we believe He was there when Ellis left us to enter a world we don't yet know. Our love for Ellis remains strong. He will always be our little guy. Thank you for remembering him with us.

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Monday, July 18, 2011

Happy Anniversary

Just over a week ago we celebrated our fifth wedding anniversary. Simply put, it was good. We felt like we celebrated that day. We remembered the moments between saying, “I do” and celebrating five years of marriage and there were so many wonderful things to remember. Heading into marriage we knew there would be trials ahead. That was a given, but we didn’t worry about it on that day. With blissful ignorance of what events might change the way we think, live, and love, we chose to assume that we’d be happy and able to face those trials as long as we were able to do it together. Now that we’ve weathered the storm, I can say with confidence that although we didn’t know what was to come when we celebrated with friends and family on July 8, 2006, we were right.

The community that surrounded us then, surrounds us now. The better part is that a host of others we didn't know then are a part of our journey now. We're so very thankful.