Introducing Aliviah Macelle

I have been waiting to write this post since I started my blog. I haven't really been doing a good job in updating on here. 

David and I flew to ohio on June 13,2014 to wait on her arrival. She was originally due on the 17th. We waited a whole week before little Ms decided to make her appearance. She finally came on June 21, 2014 at 2:50am weighing 6 pounds 15 ounces and 20 inches long. I was so blessed to be able to witness her coming into the world. There is no greater experience than watching a new life be born. That will always be a special bond between the birth mom and me. 

It has been a long journey to this point and I am looking forward to our lives with her. God is forever good and his timing is absolutely perfect. I can't imagine any other baby apart of our family age truly is our answer to prayer. Now I can't wait to get her home and start our lives together. 

End of the waiting chapter of our adoption and all the emotions that goes with it

As David and I prepare to go get Aliviah I have been thinking about our whole adoption journey and how the puzzle pieces have just seemed to fit perfectly. Our creator really does have it all mapped out. I would have never guessed 3 and half years ago when we felt The Lord calling us to parent through adoption that it would take so long (in my books) but actually that 3 years went by pretty fast. Although their were times in the last 3 years I thought this day would never come and I felt hopeless. In the last 3 and half years we had 2 adoption agencies (the first one turned us down but now I see that was in God's plan because we found NCHS which is awesome!) 2 almost placements and countless of waiting and prayers, but I look back and see how it all has worked out. I couldn't have matched us with a better birth family if I would have chosen them myself.  They are truly a perfect match for us. David and I have been so blessed with them involving us throughout the whole process. They have blessed us with ultrasound pictures and videos so that we can experience that too. I can't wait to continue this journey with open adoption and now I get to share the pictures with them and they still get to see Aliviah grow up. That's the beauty of open adoption is Aliviah will always know who they are and there will be no need to search for her birth family when she is older because Lord willing she will have already built a life long relationship with them.

Now that we are less than 2 weeks before we leave to go get her it seems so surreal. Her room is all ready, her bags are packed (now I just need to pack my bags) and we are finishing up the last little bit of paperwork we need and we just finished our last pre-adoption home study with our caseworker. I am feeling all the emotions fit into one bill right. I am feeling ready but like any other first time mom there is that fear of the unknown. I think of our birth family often and more and more as the time gets closer and wonder how they are feeling.

Please continue to pray for this journey as one chapter comes to an end and a new chapter is starting and are lives are about to change forever for the BETTER!

Our soon to be little girl

I am so thankful that we have been blessed with a birth family that is willing to share the special moments with us. The family wants David and I to enjoy this time and to be able to share these moments too. They so generously mailed us some of the ultrasound pictures. So here are just a few ultrasound pictures of Aliviah. I am so thankful for this family!! The Lord truly does have everything mapped out. Enjoy!

The BIG Update!!

I know I have been really quiet on my blog. Actually we have been really busy with the whole adoption thing. We have been attending our Prepare Groups on different topics and life was going on like normal.

I'm actually pleased to announce for the last several months David and I have been working with a birth family. Going through this whole experience has given me more respect for birth families. You know when you are watching TV they always make out birth moms to be a selfish and mean almost like a villain. But I think birthfamilies are the most wonderful people ever. Seriously, they truly are. It takes someone strong and caring to love someone so much that you give them something you can't even if it is hard on them. I seriously could never take what they are doing for David and I for granted. They will ALWAYS have a special place in hearts and our lives.

The more I think about adoption the more I see Christ's love in the whole adoption process. Think about it. God gave up his ONLY Begotten son so that we can be born again into his family. If God never chose to give up his son we would be banned from Heaven forever. God loved us so much he was able to send his son to DIE for us so that we could have a better life in heaven.

So David and I are excited to announce that this June we will be adding to our family through adoption. A little precious baby girl that God has had planned for us all along. So all the heartache and pain we have been through the last 8 years every tears of sadness shed has now turned to tears of joy. Please continue to pray that everything will go according to God's plan and His will be done. So be watching as we go along this journey the next couple of months of bringing our baby girl home.

Ephesians 1:5 - Having predestinated us unto the adoption of children by Jesus Christ to himself, according to the good pleasure of his will,

10 years ago today

10 years ago today David picked me up for our first date at 7:00 am to go to a singles activity to watch a football game. I could have cared less about football. I only enjoy football if its a team I care about (The Buckeyes!). But I agreed to go anyone because I thought this young man was cute and I would be home around noon or 1 right? WRONG! After the football game he asked me if I wanted Subway for lunch. So I agreed. We were near his home in Chugiak, AK and he said he had to run home real quick so around 2:00 we went to his parents house. I only agreed because I knew his sister was home so while he went and changed I sat and talked with his sister but before that. When we got to his house he said to Amanda "Hey Amanda, This is Rebekah I plan on marrying her one day." What?! This is date one and I've only known him for like a month. Not going to lie it scared me a little bit because I just graduated high school and was only 19 years old. But I knew he was a good christian man and I did meet him at church and he was really cute. 

After his house we went on a walk in his neighborhood no hand holding but I sure wanted too. When we came across his neighbors house we talked a bit and this time he just introduced me as Rebekah. LOL! Anyway we ended up talking to them for a while and they were renovating their kitchen and so while we were talking with them we helped pack their kitchen. This is when I saw how much of a hard worker David is. He was willing to help pack a kitchen for an older couple on a first date. By this time it was like 5:00 so we went out to dinner on our way to dinner we saw his dad's truck at the Sushi place so David wanted me to meet his dad so we went and stayed a few minutes so I can meet his dad. (We didn't eat Sushi not our thing).

After dinner we went to a 7:00 movie and to be honest with you I can't even remember what movie we saw but I was just happy to be in good company. Once we were after the movie he asked me what I wanted to do next and I had to tell him it was now 9:30 and I should probably go home because my parents might be worried about me since I didn't own a cell phone back then. So after 15 hours David dropped me off and we said our good bye's with a quick brief hug.

Once I got inside boy was I right about my parents. My mom was sitting at the top of the stairs waiting for me and I could tell by the look on my dad's face he wasn't happy with me either. Well, the next day they took me to ATT to get a cell phone for me. LOL! David and I went out every weekend and talked on the phone everyday until he left for the military a few days after Valentines Day.

2013 in a nutshell

I can't believe 2013 has come to an end already? It seems like we just rung in 2013 and here we are about to ring in 2014. I hope 2013 brought you many blessings this year.

 David and I got to do a lot of fun things this year. Including concerts, and trips, and just fun things around here in Omaha.

In January we went to go see the National Figure Skating championships. That was so much fun. It was nice to see something up close in personal that I normally just sit and watch on TV.

In February I got to experience my very first every circus. I felt like a kid along with all the other kids. It was so much fun.

In March, I went to the Winter Jam Concerts of 2013. I got to see 10 Christian artist all in one concert. It was a lot of fun. I got too see Toby Mac, Jamie Gracie, and New Song just to name a few. It was a PACKED House. The most people I have seen in one location.

In April, We went to go see the Newsboys with our friends from church. I have to say this was my favorite concert all year!

In May my parents visited from Alaska for a week while they were here we went and walked the pedestrian bridge here in Omaha and was able to stand in two state at once.. It is always nice to have family in town. I really truly miss having family just miles away like when we were in Alaska. Family is the most important thing to me. David also went and visited his dad and brother in Portland at the end of May. I am so glad he was able to go see his family too.

In June David and I celebrated our 8th wedding anniversary. Its crazy how fast time flies when you are having fun. We celebrated by going to dinner at a restaurant that was located on a lake which was absolutely beautiful. Also in June our agency puts on a huge fundraiser called Sand in the city where they build giant sand sculptures right here in downtown Omaha. Its great!

In July David spent a week at our  youth Summer camp with our church called Super Summer. He talked about that for months afterwards so I guess he had fun. I also got braces put on in July. We also spent much of the summer at the lake on our paddle boat.

August was a crazy but very busy month. The first weekend in August David and I got to go experience the US Open which actually took place right across the street from our house and then I flew to Ohio for a weekend to celebrate my grandpa's 80th birthday and then on the last week of August David and I flew home to Alaska for two weeks.

 In September I got somewhere along the lines of 14 inches off my hair and donated it to Locks of Love and I also got to shoot my first gun ever.

In October I went to Vala's Pumpkin patch with my friend Amber's family. It was my first time going to the pumpkin patch and I will never miss a year again!!

In November my aunt and uncle and cousin Timothy came and visited for Thanksgiving. It was so nice having family for Thanksgiving this year.

And December sadly I had to make another trip to Ohio. My grandpa went home to be with Jesus on December 1, 2013. His service was wonderful. He had full military honors and my dad did his service and did a wonderful job too. When I got home we had a Feast at our house with all our friend from church it was alot of fun. We even went and had a Bonfire in 18 degrees.

So as you can tell our year was full of  fun and excitment and I can wait to share this with our child one day. Whoever the Lord chooses our child to be will be in a family that like to have fun. I hope you guys have a BLESSED 2014 and we want to thank you for taking the time to stop and read our blog and pray for our adoption. Maybe 2014 will be the year you get good news. Please continue to pray and keep Christ first

Love Always
David and Bekah DeHart

Waiting is hard

I am writing this to let you know that waiting is not so easy. I know everything happens for a reason and God has a plan for us but that doesn't make the waiting any easier. How can I miss someone I never even met or hasn't even been born yet or may not even be conceived yet? My heart aches to be a mother and I wonder if that day will ever get to come. We have been working with our agency for 2 years now and have been in the adoptive parent pool for one of those years. I go through my up and downs. I know that God has the perfect child for us but waiting on him or her is so hard when I want nothing more to be a mom.

I know that God can see the big picture and He is looking down right now saying be patient my child for I have it under control. Its like a child waiting for Christmas to come and wanting to know what the get right now. I know that one day when this journey is behind us and we have our child all the pain and sadness I feel will all be just a memory and our child will be worth the wait and I will hardly remember what it is like to have a house empty of quietnes and toys.

I am praying the Lord's will be done but I also am praying it is sooner than later. I just ask that you continue to pray for the right child to come into our home and the The Lord will give me peace in waiting on the child he has planned for us.

Philippians 4:19 - But my God shall supply all your need according to his riches in glory by Christ Jesus.