Featured Family: James & Jenny

All of these families I met in an adoption group I'm apart of online. Each couple touched me and so here I am sharing their stories in hopes that a bio mom is more able to find them. All of us share a common thread - we are all hoping to be first time parents through adoption.

The families are in no particular order and I start with
James and Jenny.

James,29, and Jenny, 26, are high school sweethearts. They started dating in 2000, went to college together, and got married in 2006. They started trying to conceive in 2008 but soon discovered that Jenny has premature ovarian failure, which means that she is no longer able to ovulate and can only get pregnant through IVF with donor eggs. Rather than undergo invasive fertility treatments, they moved straight to adoption in 2009.

They were very quickly matched with a birthmother for several months, but the placement was disrupted the day the baby was born. It has been over a year since then and they are still waiting to be matched with a new birthmother. James and Jenny hope to adopt a child from age birth to 24 months from within the United States. They are open to both genders, would prefer Caucasian but are open to mixed ethnicities, too.

James is in the military and Jenny is in nursing school. Together they love running, especially marathons and half-marathons, and going camping/hiking with their two dogs, Piper (chocolate lab) and Molly (Border Collie). James and Jenny are Episcopalian and find their faith to be a strong grounding force for their marriage and family. They are originally from North Carolina but currently live in Arkansas.

If you'd like to know more about these amazing people, you can visit their blog at: http://therunningyoginimom.blogspot.com