State of the Family 2025

As 2024 draws to a close, we're reminded of all the blessings God has seen fit to bestow us. We're all happy and healthy, and at the end of the day that's all we can ask for.

Adoption

China has officially closed its adoption program, bringing a sad conclusion to our adoption saga from the mainland. We have entered the Hong Kong adoption program in hopes of still being able to bring an ethnically Chinese orphan into our home. We have not been matched yet, but we hope to be in the coming year. The Hong Kong program works a little differently; families all apply as each child becomes available, and then a family is selected from the applicants.

Kids

Jaedyn has started a new academic adventure (AKA middle school) at Hill Country Christian School of Austin. It took her a while to admit it, but she loves it. Having a couple friends has certainly helped. They don't do school sports for 6th graders so they can focus on adapting to more academic rigor, but they keep her busy with homework and clubs.

Kaleb still attends his elementary school and has become obsessed with baseball. He found a very encouraging team and a good coach. We're just happy to see him so excited about any sport, even if it's not a sport we're as fond of personally. ;)

Jake & Kyla

Kyla is still working at Austin Diagnostic Clinic as a pediatric nurse practitioner. She also enjoys using her lactation certification to see patients struggling with breast-feeding.

Jake still leads Product for Cloud Campaign, a social media management startup out of Colorado. His nonprofit, The Apologist Project is going strong, with a 1st place overall win at the Indigitous #HACK 2024 event, as well as a 2nd place in challenge win at Gloo's AI & the Church hackathon. It builds conversational AIs for evangelism and an apologetics directory.