Stieger Beck Turner

We are so excited that Stieger Beck has finally came!! He was born on Oct 9, at 11:00pm, weighting in at 6 lbs 12 oz and was 19" long.
We got the phone call only hours before he was born, so we booked the next flight to Arkansas and rushed to get things ready, seeing as we only had 12 hours to prepare for a new baby!! We arrived the next afternoon to meet this sweet little man and fell in love with him instantly. He is the sweetest thing ever!! We were lucky enough for the hospital to give us a room, and spend the night with him before being discharged the next day.
Then came the waiting game, we had to wait to see when we would be able to get a court date. Most couples have to wait at least 10 days if not more so when we got the phone call telling us our date was just 1 week after we arrived, we were thrilled. There were
 so many people waiting at home to meet the sweet man, and we couldn't wait to get him home and show him off!!
But there was one thing Cody and I both felt like we needed to do before we could leave, we needed to see our Birthmom one more time, let her have a chance to see him again and say goodbye, because even though we do have an open adoption visiting her is not something that is going to happen a lot. And we wanted to her know how much we loved her and how grateful we were to her for bringing our son into our lives!!
After 3 days of traveling in the car, we are totally crazy I know, we made it home and we are enjoying every moment with our little man!!

Our first family pic

Ready to leave the hospital 

Charly holding her brother for the 1st time!!

Papers signed and he is all ours!!

Baby #2 is coming

We are so excited to announce that baby number two is on HIS way. Thats right we will have a sweet baby boy in our family, and get this he is due in 19 days!! We can't even stand it we are so excited.


A little over a month ago I was contacted by a sweet woman who shared with me her story of adopting her Marshallese son, and right away we knew that this was a option for us. While we were really hoping to go through LDS Family Services because of the difference in cost ( lds is about 1/3 the cost)  when we got the phone call saying the had a placement for us we knew this was our baby. We are so excited and feel so blessed, everything in our lives seems to be falling into place.

We are now in a mad rush trying to get everything ready for our baby and for our adventure to pick him up. I say adventure because not only do we have to travel with Charly, but I will be taking care of a newborn in a hotel for possibly up to two weeks!! Life is so exciting, and we can't wait for our new addition to arrive!!