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Our Families The Devore Family Our path to adoption like many other couples started with infertility. We always thought we had the right plan; we thought we were doing things the right way, we waited until we had the right jobs, then the right cars, a house, and the final step make a complete family- the pregnancy. Only the pregnancy never came. During our struggle to become pregnant we watched many family and friends get pregnant and have babies. At one point there were 4 sisters or sisters-in-law pregnant at the same time. This period of our life was not an easy one. It was shortly after this point when Nila's father was diagnosed with brain cancer and told he had 3 months to live. We decided to put a hold on the pursuit to become pregnant. Looking back, this really was a growing point in both our lives and our relationship. Also during the last couple of years, God had brought us to a church that has truly become our family. Along with our best friend who had adopted a little boy from Russia we now knew three more families that had become families with children through adoption. We were able to get to know families that had experienced just about every possible adoption type: international, county/state foster system, as well as closed arranged adoptions. After things had settled down and the family was mostly through the grieving process we began discussing our family plans again. Only this time there was a much different attitude and perspective on having a baby. The desire to become pregnant was completely gone, but the want for the family was stronger than ever. We had always said if we were ever going to adopt we wanted a little boy from Russia and a little girl from China. We were now starting to see what God had for us all along. It was October of 2004 that we made the decision that we were going to adopt. Actually it wasn't that we made the decision, I believe it was that we allowed Gods will to be done in our lives. Over the next few weeks we started making phone calls and doing internet research. It was during this time that we learned of the age requirements to adopt from China. The funny thing is it didn't even faze us. We were okay with the fact that I was just 29 and we would have to wait almost a year for everything to be completed. It was also during this time that we found A Helping Hand. I had found AHH through internet searches, and then a friend from church had recommended we look into the Steven Curtis Chapman site for information. While looking around his website I noticed AHH was one of the few agencies recommended. I believe like so many other decisions we needed to make, when there was a choice to make God made it clear to us. After watching the video and visiting the web site a couple of times our minds were made up. And we hadn't even talked to anyone in person yet. Our first meeting with our family advocate, it confirmed our decision that AHH was the right agency for us. I won't say that these waiting months have been easy, but we have been at peace the whole time. The entire AHH team have done an incredible job both with relating to us as well giving us the directions that we needed. The advice for what-to-expect next and the time-lines have been right on target every time. We are now in the waiting stage, our dossier has been out of our hands for about three weeks now and the fun of decorating a nursery is upon us. We can't wait to update our testimony with pictures of our little girl and our trip to China.

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