Our adoption just got updated to Home at Last Posted about over 4 years ago

We are so thankful to be home as a family of 3!  

From hospital to airport!! Posted about over 4 years ago

We are so so very thankful for your prayers!! While Walker was getting his final antibiotics we got the phone call that we could travel home...GA here we come! We are on the 4:00(AZ time) HOME!! Tears of joy and praising our GOOD GOOD FATHER Amy & Walker 

pray from hospital to airport Posted about over 4 years ago

Hey everyone Walker is doing great!! He will be discharged from the hospital tomorrow around lunch !!! So excited he is better and we are getting to leave the hospital !!! So all we are waiting on is ICPC paperwork to be able to come home. Please pray for AZ and GA to do what they need to do!  It doesn’t sound like they are communicating well 😞We are praying we can go from hospital to airport !...

We are still in AZ Posted about almost 5 years ago

Hate that we haven't updated sooner... but this week has been a bit of a whirlwind.First ... Court was Wednesday and everything went smoothly!  The ICPC paperwork has been submitted to AZ and then it will be sent to GA...should take about 7-10 days. Now...why it has taken us so long to update.  Walker started running a fever this past Tuesday...so we ended up at Phoenix Children's Hospital.  It...

BABY O is here! Posted about almost 5 years ago

WALKER TATE OSTRANDER is here!!!  He was born on July 16 at 12:25pm weighing 6lbs 14oz and 20in long.  He has a head full of black hair and absolutely perfect! We are so in love!  Everything is going really well.  The hospital has been so gracious and gave us a room to stay in with him so we have had a ton of bonding time. His birth mom was discharged from the hospital yesterday and we had a sw...

Still Waiting... Posted about almost 5 years ago

Thank you to all of you for your support and prayers!  Our due date has come and gone and we are still waiting on Baby O.  Just wanted to keep you all in the loop.  If our birth mom doesn't go into labor by Tuesday July 16th she will check into the hospital that evening to be induced.  We will update again when we travel. Again thank you so much for being on this journey with us!Stephen and Amy

A little more detail Posted about almost 5 years ago

The last month has been nothing short of a roller coaster of emotions in the O house.  First, we were matched with two different birth mothers from an agency, but both opportunities fell through for various reasons.  As if that wasn’t frustrating enough, Amy had another miscarriage a couple weeks ago.  And then we experienced a “...but God” moment.A few days ago, we were matched with Keemara, a...

Our adoption just got updated to Child Identified Posted about almost 5 years ago

WE ARE MATCHED!!! We are matched with a birth mom in Arizona who is due with a Baby Boy on July 11!!  We have prayed about this being a GOD STORY and we truly believe it is!  God is writing our family story and we can’t wait to meet our baby boy.