Our "New Year" Miracle

2014

was one of the most life changing, 

happiest, beautiful times of our lives!

Meet Luke

 Luke was born to Shanae.  

Shanae is our angel birthmother and Po Thu is our angel birthfather.

We love each of our birthparents with a love that is so deep and real that is is impossible to describe!

We are so grateful, and feel so blessed, that both Shanae and Po Thu want to be part of Luke's life!  We feel adoption should be as open as the birthparent(s) feel is healthy for them and for the child!  

Winnie, Shanae, Shay, 

and Luke at the hosptial: 

Winnie, Ph Thu, Shay and Luke in our home:

It has been a beautiful journey with both of these amazing individuals and we really enjoy the time we have when they come to visit all of us!

At the hospital, Shanae's step mother was so awesome....right before we walked in the room to see Luke for the very first time she asked if she could take pictures for us.  

I handed her my ipad and said sure.  

The picture below is of Luke being placed in our arms for the very first time.  

It was instant love, gratitude, happiness all rolled into one!  

LDS Family Services has the slogan, "It's about love." Having gone through this whole adoption process with Luke, Shanae, and Po Thu we couldn't agree more!  

There is more love that goes into the adoption process than I ever imagined

and it is such a very special journey!  

This is picture of Shay's mother holding Luke for the very first time:

 This is Winnie's Dad holding Luke for the very fist time:

This is Winnie's mom meeting and holding Luke for the very fist time:

So grateful we had the opportunity to have Luke join our family!

 Feel so blessed to also extend our love to two amazing birth families!  

Life and adoption are so much better than we could have ever expected!

We are hoping and praying that we will be able to take this adoption journey again!  

We feel our family is not quite complete and that it is the right time to share our story again and open our home up to another child.   

We would love to have another amazing, wonderful, loving adoption journey with a birthparent(s). 

We would love for Luke to be able to have a sibling that he could grow up with and love!  

If you feel you are someone who might be interested in learning more about our family, who we are, etc......
or you know of someone who might be contemplating adoption......

please feel free to contact us at:

 shayandwinnie@gmail.com

or visit our adoption blog:

Shay and Winnie
Hoping to Adopt


P.S. The reason why the posts have ended where they do is because we have set up a private Instagram account with our birth mom.  We post all pictures for her there and keep her in the loop.  We send pictures to Luke's birth father. We are more than willing to open up our lives further to anyone who feels that we might be a possible adoptive parent match for them.  Just let us know.
Thank you! 

Easter 2015

We were really excited to celebrate Easter this year with Luke!  Last year he was only four years old and really didn't understand anything that was going on around him.  This year we knew he would.  We got ready by purchasing items......we went a bit overboard!  We couldn't get all of his treats into his duck Easter basket his grandmother gave him. :-)

We even bought edible grass so as to not have to worry about plastic getting into his mouth.  

Of course Easter isn't complete without a few new outfits to sport!  

Had a blast picking out some outfits for Luke!

It was also fun getting Shay's basket ready.  

When I was in Costco looking at videos for Shay a lady told me that the recently released movie Into the Woods was excellent.  I thought, "Great, we both haven't seen it so it will be a win-win movie!"  UGH!  Should have asked more questions about the movie!  I liked the move.....but Shay not so much.  At least Shay humored me in watching the whole thing....even though he does not like musicals!  I told him I owed him big time.  He laughed and just gave me a kiss!  I am so grateful to have such a great husband!  

 Picture above shows where I hid Shay's basket (Under the sink).  In my family, while growing up, we woke up Easter morning having to find where the Easter Bunny had hid our baskets.  I loved looking for my baskets as a child so we are going to care on this tradition in our home.

Shay, of course, spoiled me rotten!  We both LOVE the Lord of the Rings series.  I got the hobbit along with yummy candy.  I love how Shay spoils me and makes me feel so special all the time!

The next few pictures are of Shay and me trying to get Luke to sit still and take an Easter picture.  He wasn't very cooperative!  Putting him between his toys, candy and clothes turned out to be a bit problem.  Shay and I would take turns trying to get him to stop eating the edible grass or pick up a toy.  We definitely were not too successful! :-)

We love his silly smiles and faces found in these pictures!  Below is the best we could do!  

It was such a fun day.  

It was also a special day!  We got to go to church and remember the Savior and His infinite love for us all.  We both feel such gratitude to our Savior for him birth, life, sacrifice and love!  May we never forget how much He loves us and cares for us!  

Happy Easter everyone!