Mason Jeffrey

Mason Jeffrey 

The last couple weeks have been a whirlwind of emotions, changes, and amazingness all wrapped up into a life-changing experience! My last blog post was the hardest.... we were so devastated and discouraged in the adoption process, while scared to keep trying and possibly face more heart break. But today, as I write this, I am snuggling my perfect, precious son, Mason, in my arms and realizing, yet again, that God had an amazing plan. So how did this all happen you may be wondering??

We got a couple emails of new situations over the course of a few days after our failed match. It was hard to read them and even try to get excited because our hearts were so broken. We tried to make the best of changed plans and spent a fun memorial day weekend in the sun! Tuesday, May 30th we went back to work after a fun weekend away; the day went on like normal and after work we ran to Costco to get some groceries. As I was standing looking at baby clothes at Costco, my phone rang. It was one of the agencies we had been working with. I quickly answered, curious about why they may be calling. The next few minutes changed our lives forever!! They explained that a baby boy had been born earlier that day, and they were wondering if we would be interested in being his adoptive parents... CRAZY! I hung up the phone and was excited and scared as I explained to Jared what I had just been told. We prayed and asked questions and a couple hours later we were booking flights for the next morning to meet OUR SON!! All of my planning and preparations were thrown out the window as we frantically gathered baby stuff and our stuff and tried to get our house and work ready to be gone for an unknown amount of time.

Leaving Seattle!! 

Wednesday, May 31st, we flew out of Seattle and arrived in Missouri in the late afternoon, we rushed straight to the hospital to meet him! We then spent the next 11 days in the NICU with him (they were monitoring him because he was born 6 weeks early), and he was released Saturday!!! Mason Jeffrey is a beautiful, healthy, and happy baby boy!! We are SO BLESSED!

Scrubbing into the NICU to meet Mason!! 

First family photo :) 

11 days old leaving the NICU!! 

SO why aren't we home yet?? At this point we are hanging out in a hotel, loving on our sweet baby boy and waiting for ICPC (the legal stuff) to clear us to come home! This process can take anywhere from a few days to a couple weeks, we are praying it goes quickly!!

We are so thankful for everyone's prayers for us and for Mason! Please continue to pray that ICPC goes quickly so we can come home!! Being a mom is something I have always dreamed of and was excited about, but it is seriously so much better then I even imagined. The amount of love I have for this tiny little human is UNREAL! We love you all and are thankful that you are a part of our journey to #bringhomebabytrygg!!

"Yet I Still Dare To Hope!"

It is with a super heavy heart that I write this post..... The short story is that our adoption match fell through and we no longer get the privilege to parent that sweet baby girl. Our hearts are completely broken, but we trust that God has a plan that is much bigger than we can imagine in this moment.

We have spent the last few weeks since getting matched decorating, buying baby clothes, celebrating, and getting ready to be parents. We are so thankful for the love and support we found from everyone! We were so blown away by peoples' generosity of funds, baby supplies, prayers, and support! We jumped in the car friday afternoon after a long week away on a work trip to start our adventure to bring home baby Trygg. On Saturday evening, we got a devastating call that the birth mom had suddenly changed her mind and had decided to parent. We were obviously shocked and broken hearted, and it is so hard to not question what went wrong. Even though right now we are broken, we know that God has a plan and it will be amazing.

We are so thankful for the love and support we have received the past couple days. We appreciate your continued prayers as we walk through this time. We are continuing the adoption process, hopeful and excited to see what God has in store for our family.

WE HAVE MATCHED!!!!

We are SO EXCITED to share with you that we are officially matched with a baby due MAY 22nd!! 

This past week as been a whirlwind of emotions. We presented last week to a situation, that we really felt God calling us to. I felt so good about the entire thing and I really truly thought that this was our time to be picked! I was nervous, but excited to hear the mom's decision on Monday morning. After several hours my phone buzzed and I saw the text that the birth mom had picked a different family. My heart sunk and ached with pain from the loss of my dream of what could have been.

On Tuesday, our hearts still really hurt. We saw a new situation that sounded perfect, but I could not let myself get excited. It just seemed too good to be true. I got a text that Thursday night the mom would receive families profile books. I struggle with patience, so I quickly responded "so I should expect to wait a few days before hearing anything?" Thursday night was totally normal, we went shopping at costco and came home to eat dinner and watch TV. Super uneventful and kind of boring.... then my phone rang! I was immediately worried because it had only been a few hours. That is when we found out that the birth mom PICKED US to be the parents of her sweet baby that is due to arrive on May 22nd! That means that in about 2 weeks we will have a baby in our arms.

Right after the phone call!!

We humbly ask you to consider doing two things:

1) PRAY: This has been an amazing journey, but it is not over! Please begin to pray for us, for the birth mom, and the sweet baby.
2) Consider Giving: We have been saving, and fundraising to make this dream a reality! Because the baby is due SO soon we only have a couple weeks to get the rest of the money together.  Adoption is an amazing gift, and we feel so blessed to journey through it, but the financial side is scary. We are trusting in God that He will provide and we could use your help!

Please consider giving to #bringinghomebabytrygg! You can follow this link to our online giving page! Every prayer and dollar helps!!

https://www.youcaring.com/jaredstephanietryggadoption-730655

We are over the moon excited to welcome a baby girl into our family!!! 

Good Things Take Time!

I have been getting lots of questions about how the adoption process is going and what has been happening. Then I realized that it has been a pretty long time since my last blog post...... oops! The reason for the long delay is that I really have no new news to report........ Jared and I are still very much excited, hopeful, and prayerful as we wait to be matched with the perfect situation! Since we have been home study approved, we have been sent various situations of expectant moms. When we receive a situation, we spend time praying over it and deciding whether or not it would be a good fit for our family and if we would like to pursue presenting to the birth mom. This is a very exciting and humbling process!

As we journey through this process to someday (hopefully soon) bring home our baby, I am reminded that "good things take time". This is a very good thing, and God has an amazing plan all figured out and I am just along for the ride. It is ok that it is taking some time, because it is going to be SO GOOD & SO WORTH IT! As we continue to wait to be matched, we would love for you to continue to pray for us and for the perfect situation in God's perfect timing! We are SO THANKFUL for everyones love, support, and encouragement! We will continue to update as the process unfolds! :)

Waiting & Praying

A couple weeks have gone by and we are still so excited to be journeying through the adoption process! We are so thankful for everyone who has supported us through our t-shirt fundraiser! We were blown away by peoples' support and we sold over 50 shirts!! We cannot wait to see everyone wearing their baby Trygg shirts soon! 

Over the last couple weeks, we have seen a few situations of expectant birth moms. We have spent time praying over each situation, each mom, and each baby. We have not felt called to present yet to any of these situations. We know that God has a big and perfect plan for our family and we know that he will work out all the details to bring us our perfect baby! So for now, we will be patient and continue to pray for baby Trygg! 

Baby Trygg T- Shirt Fundraiser

Adoption Fundraiser #1 

We are super excited to launch our first official adoption fundraiser to bring home baby Trygg! Our very talented friend, Ella, designed these fun shirts for us that we are selling on Bonfire. We have a live T-shirt campaign for 21 days, which then ship directly to the buyers! We make money off of each shirt that will go directly to our adoption fund. We have 4 shirt options, the classic tee (pictured below), V neck t-shirt, hooded sweatshirt, and youth t-shirt. 

Check out the website here: https://www.bonfire.com/babytryggadoption/

"Love Has No Limits" T-shirt $25.00 

The back of the shirts say #bringinghomebabytrygg

The phrase on our shirts "Love Has No Limits" was inspired by 1 Corinthians 13:7-8a:  

"Love knows no limit to its endurance, no end to its trust, no fading of its hope; it can outlast anything. It is, in fact, the one thing that still stands when all else has fallen." 

When you buy a t-shirt, you will investing in our future family! We are SO grateful for all of the wonderful people who support us! We hope that you will purchase a t-shirt & think of us and Baby Trygg every time you wear it! Thank you in advance for your support! :) 

Adoption Process Update #2

Another week has passed and the adoption process keeps rolling on! This past week, we got our profile books in the mail! It was so exciting to see our beautiful books in person!

Our Beautiful Profile Books!

Now that we had the books, we were able to officially mail off the final applications to the agencies we are working with! Once the agencies receive our packets, we will be able to actually be sent situations and then have the choice to pray and consider if we would like to present our book to that expectant mom. Then she will consider the profiles she sees and make a choice. We are very excited to be in this part of the process, and we ask that you join us in praying as we move forward!

Sending off our agency applications!!

Another awesome thing that has happened this week is Jared had the opportunity to preach last Sunday! He did a great job and even got to share our exciting news that we adopting with our entire church family!

Check out Jared's message here: http://www.pnconline.org/messagecenter.aspx?parentnavigationid=15842

Thank you for continuing to pray for us through this process! We feel SO blessed for everyone's love, support, and encouraging words! We are dreaming up some fundraising ideas that we will keep you updated on! If you feel it on our heart to donate to our adoption you can do that through our YouCaring page. Thank you!!

https://www.youcaring.com/jaredstephanietryggadoption-730655