Great to be Home!

Our trip home went very well Kade traveled great! He was alittle fussy when we went through the mountains but other then that he slept most of the time! We were so thankful that he traveled well b/c we were very concerned about how he would do. It is a very long trip for such a little guy:) We got home on Sunday night at about 8:00.
Well we would like to thank all of you again for all the prayers and support during this process.
Kade is very anxious to meet everyone!
God has truly blessed us!
Dustin, Ashley and Kade

Traveling home

We got the ok from the state of Iowa to come home with Kade. We plan on leaving today (Fri. July 25) after his doctor apt. at 1:30. We plan on driving during the day and finding a hotel for the nights. Hope to be home by Sun Evening. So please pray for us on our journey.

Today was our 3rd day as a family. Everything is going great. Kade is a really good baby and loves to be held and wrapped up in blankets. He does not like diaper changes at all. We took a little drive today to the Babies R' Us store and decided that's kind of a dangerous store. We could spend a lot of $ there in a very short time:) We have mostly just been hanging out in our hotel room getting to know one another. Hear are a few pictures of Kade.

Please keep in your prayers Kade's birth mother because she is in a time of grieving. This little boy brings us such great joy and we feel very blessed! At the same time it is hard to know that someone else has to hurt.

Our papers are in Iowa so know we are just waiting for someone from the adoption agency to call us and let us know we can go home. We are very excited for all of you to meet Kade.

Thanks for all your prayers, Dustin, Ashley, and Kade

Kade Malachi De Jong

We would like to introduce the newest member of our family Kade Malachi De Jong! We were able to pick him up at 2:00 today! So far he seems to be a very good baby.
We can't wait for all of you to meet him.
God is amazing and he has blessed us so much!
We will keep you all updated with pictures while we are down here in North Carolina.
Thanks so much for all the prayers!
Dustin, Ashley and Kade

Exciting News

We are very excited to say that we have a baby boy in North Carolina. He was born on July 14th and weighed 6 pounds 13 oz and was 18 in long. We are able to pick him up Mon. July 21 right away in the morning. We will be posting pics and let you know what his name is when we get there and get a chance to update. Please pray for safe travel and for our son. Please also pray for his birthparents.
Thank you very much for the prayers and support through our adoption process.
Dustin and Ashley

Grants

We have a little bit of exciting news today. This weekend we got our printed home study so we were able to send off our grant applications. We were glad to get them sent off. So now we just patiently wait to hear something from all of those places as well as our adoption agency:).
We ask for your continued prayers as we wait, some days it is tough to wait. But we try to remind ourselves daily that God has a child for us and it will all happen in his time.
We also ask for prayers for the birth moms so that they can find peace in their decisions. And most importantly for the child that God has chosen for us.
We would like to thank all of you for your prayers and support through this process. We can't wait to see the plan God has for our family.
Dustin and Ashley