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Location Missouri, United States
Introduction We are a family of 8. We love God and enjoy our life He has overly blessed us with. In 2006, we adopted Joe, a silly, energetic little 3 year old from Guatemala. Little did we know, but in 2007, Joe's birth mom had a baby girl. We were very shocked and taken over by thousands of emotions that Joe would have a biological sister. How cool is that? So, on December 3, 2007 we started the roller coaster of the adoption process of our sweet Ella Marie. Since Guatemala was closing their adoptions at the end of December, we had less than a month to get every paper required to adopt our little girl. We made the deadline and the rest is history. We brought Ella home at 10 1/2 months old on October 18, 2008. We are now a completely blessed family of 8 enjoying our crazy, wonderful, exciting life in a small town in Missouri.