Meet Kadence

If you’re new here or just happened to stumble across this blog post, welcome. And I bet you’re wondering who Kadence is.

For those who are not new here and have known about our adoption journey for a little while now, you know who Kadence is.

Let’s catch everyone up to speed, shall we?

My name is Erica and my husband and I have struggled having kids for a couple of years prior to our decision on adoption. I went through early miscarriages, chemical pregnancies and ectopic pregnancies which had caused ruptures to both my tubes and removal. So, I couldn’t have kids without medical assistance/treatments—-IVF.

After praying and listening to God to just give us a push or something on what our next steps should be…he answered—Adoption.

After talking to Kane about it and praying more, we decided to move forward, do research and get the ball rolling with the adoption process. I remember feeling defeated on knowing how long adoption could take and all the steps you had to do for it. Movies make it seem so quick and easy. Wrong. But we took that leap and started to get things moving. We knew we were ready and God made that clear.

June 2024 was when everything was finalized for approval for adoption. Paperwork, documents, home studies, phone calls and meetings and then came the hardest part…the waiting. We had our profile on our adoption agency’s website, created our own Facebook page of our journey, did a lot of word of mouth and continued to wait for a potential mom, family or our social worker to give us a call.

Months and months went by and nothing. Silent. I never put my phone on Do Not Disturb mode because I was hoping I wouldn’t miss a phone call from our social worker with great news.

Holidays came and still nothing. “Next Christmas we will have a baby in our arms” I kept telling myself that.

My prayers got longer, bigger, bolder, but eventually it just got so repetitive and I felt like I was annoying God with the same prayers over and over again, day after day.

We had such a HUGE village behind us praying for us every day, but I still felt like God was silent. So silent that no mountains were moving and I felt discouraged and defeated. Many of our friends, family, and church family never gave up. So, why did I feel like I needed to?

The beginning of 2025, Kane and I had a decision and talked about “What are our next steps?” Did we need to look into a national adoption agency? Do we renew our home study when June comes around? What are we doing wrong? What else do we need to do to promote ourselves better? We had a plan that come February or March, we would re-evaluate what we can do better to get our names out there and look into national agencies (which seriously cost an arm and a leg…horrible)

Our prayer for us as a family was to adopt a newborn and be able to walk out of the hospital with the child.

*February 24, 2025 Kadence was born.

*February 24, 2025 at 6:30AM, we were in the hospital waiting room.

*February 24, 2025 at 9:00AM, we met Kadence

*March 1, 2025, we walked out of the hospital as a family of 3 heading home.

EXCUSE ME!?

Early February we got connected with the birth mom and started to get everything in place. What we thought of having a couple of weeks to prepare came out to be only a week and a half of preparation. The weekend before Kadence was born, my mom came down and we got the essentials—bottles, burp rags, a changing table, newborn diapers, gender neutral clothes and just some other items. Mom had already brought the bassinet for us and a couple of sheets. Before she left, her words were, “Just wait, the baby will probably be born next week.” Well come the next morning…we were heading to the hospital.

Obviously, we didn’t have enough time to get everything but after we let our close friends, family and church know, we had gifts, essentials, diapers, wipes and meals waiting on our front porch. We were loved on so much and joy was filling our hearts with the generosity we had received for us and for Kadence.

We were very fortunate with how the process went which was very smooth and faster than what we thought.

August 26, 2025, by the state of Iowa, Kadence was officially ours.

We have spent almost 11 beautiful months with Kadence and our whole lives have changed. Being a mom is such a beautiful feeling and a blessing. God is so good and prayer is so powerful!

We are so loved by so many people and Kadence has made such a huge impact on so many people in our lives.

Looking back, which is such an incredible thing to think about, June-February is 9 months. June is when everything we had to do for us to be able to adopt, was finalized; February was when Kadence was born. God KNEW! HE KNEW! When we thought He was silent and wasn’t moving mountains, He was LITERALLY preparing Kadence for us…we just had to wait for her to make her appearance to the world. How incredible is that!?

If you ever doubt who God is and what He can do, know that Kadence is a huge testimony of answered prayers!

We are so blessed to have Kadence in our lives and the many prayers that God had answered by so many people.