How it All Began

I wanted to write down how our family grew to have 6 kids in 6 years. I have not written anything down yet and I thought it would be a good idea to have a record of of it. I have had many people ask about our journey to having our family, so we are happy to share with those that read this blog.
We were married on March 15, 1997 in the Los Angles LDS temple. We decided to try for a baby about 9 months after we were married with no luck. I did get pregnant early on and had a miscarriage and then nothing even close after that. We went to the doctor and did a few tests and tried some different medication. I asked Kenny and my dad to give me a blessing before we started any treatment. Kenny was supposed to bless me that I would become pregnant and that is what he planned on saying. During the blessing he felt prompted to say that we would have children someday. I didn't really understand this because I wanted children now. Nothing seemed to be working and the next step was exploratory surgery to see what was going on in there. At this time we were also thinking about adoption. I was teaching at the time and in my class were 3 foster children. There was also a couple in our ward that was doing foster care. We began to both feel that this was the right thing to do for us. We talked to the couple in our ward and they led us to the foster agency they worked with. We went through the home study process and told them that we wanted to do foster care in hopes to adopt. They told us not to get our hopes up because we could get a few placements that were not adoptable before something worked out. We still felt that this was the way to go.
At this time I was also going to go ahead with the exploratory surgery. I had a Laporoscopy performed in Late May 2001. They found that I had ovarian cysts, endometriosis, and a fibroid tumor. Each one by itself can cause infertility. This was a kind of a closure to me. A couple of weeks after the surgery I had some follow up blood work done. On my way out of the office I got a call on my cell phone from the Foster Agency. They had a 6 year old girl that needed a home. And so our jouney began.