Hey, we are Luke and Cassy! Thank you so much for taking the time to learn about us. We are an open book and hope that you enjoy learning about us as prospective parents.
We grew up in the same small town and attended the same school. We even did many of the same activities! Despite these similar circles, we were four years apart in school, so we never made a connection.
In 2011, after Luke moved home from the East Coast, Cassy was visiting home from college, and we finally ran into each other. Luke knew from the moment he saw her he was going to marry Cassy! Luke finally got up the courage to ask Cassy out on a date; the rest is history. The next year and a half was filled with travel and adventure and learning more about each other. We got engaged and were married in April of 2013.
We often talked about kids and looked forward to raising our own. We welcomed our son, Zane, in 2014. In 2015, just 13 months later, we welcomed our daughter Rayln! We were shocked to find out three months after Rayln was born that we were pregnant with our third child. We welcomed Mae into the world in 2016. We had three amazing kids under the age of 3! We have been so blessed.
When Mae turned 2, we were ready to have another child! It was then that we started our journey to adoption. In December of 2020, we were pleased to match and bring home sweet Jack; it has been such a blessing. In 2022, we welcomed Lillian to the family. In 2023, we welcomed sweet Nia. We have always wanted a large family and would love to expand our family once again.
Expectant mothers who choose to make an adoption plan may qualify for some level of financial assistance during their pregnancy. However, each person's situation and specific needs are different. Your adoption social worker can help you determine what level of assistance you qualify for and deserve. Many expectant mothers qualify for financial assistance to cover basic pregnancy and living expenses, including but not limited to - transportation reimbursement, utility assistance for phone, water, and electricity/gas, maternity clothing and supplements, etc.
It won't cost you anything. If you choose to place your baby for adoption, all of your medical and legal fees will be covered and you may be eligible for financial assistance with other pregnancy-related expenses.
Yes. Even if you don’t know the identity of the birth father, you can still choose to make an adoption plan. However, every adoption situation is different. The adoption social worker you’re assigned to will get to know you and your story first, and then guide you through the process accordingly.
You can make an adoption plan at any point in your pregnancy, even after the baby has been born. But, it's important to start the process as early in your pregnancy as possible. Connecting with those resources will allow you to gain access to important medical services, including prenatal care, to help ensure a healthy pregnancy.
One aspect of your adoption plan is the "Hospital Plan" an outline of how you'd like your hospital stay and delivery to go. You can craft this on your own or with the help of your adoption social worker. But everything is up to you. You’ll be able to choose who comes to the hospital with you, who is in the room with you during delivery, and how much time you’d like to spend with the baby before signing the final papers.
As part of your adoption plan, you'll determine whether or not you’d like to have an open or closed adoption or something in between. Open adoptions may include phone calls, messaging (via social media, email, or text), and/or periodic visits each year. Closed adoptions may include no contact at all or annual updates provided to the birth parent(s) by the adoptive family. Each post-adoption relationship is different and can vary based on what an expectant mother chooses in her adoption plan.
Happy Mother's Day to all the brave, beautiful, selfless woman out there! Cheers to you! Enjoy your day, because your a hero!
Our sweet boy Jack turns 2 day! He has been such a blessing! Not only have we been blessed to have him in our lives but as well as his bio momma and her family. It has truly been so beautiful.
Today we celebrate Jack and also all you expecting mommas out there for your selfless unconditional love
Today we had so much for taking our new puppy Wells out in our woods. The girls enjoyed collecting sticks and some really big rocks! We even got to splash in some puddles with all rain
Hope everyone has a blessed Good Friday
We would love to introduce our newest member of the clan, Mr Weller or Wells!
He is Soo sweet and loves to give kisses! He's full of engery ( it's just what our clan needs💕)
We cannot wait for all the adventures we will go on with him and all the memories we will make❤️
We love our crew so much! We just finialized Lillian's adoption and feel so extremely blessed to be called her parents. ❤️
We love all sports, especially the ones our kiddos are passionate about, our son zane is playing in a weekend basketball tourney and the whole family is here for it!
Happy happy Veterans Day to all, but we especially want to give a shout out to my papaw! Thanks for your service; we love you!
Jack is always up for doing everything and anything with his daddy.. even if it's cleaning out the smoker!
#thanksgivingready
We took a little trip to check out the fighting Irish and had a great time!
We love doing crafts and we love all things Christmas so why not start now🤪
We love having fun with our kids, and pumpkin craving is def one of them!!!
Lastnight we had an awesome time taking rayln to see Thomas Rhett in concert! We think it's so important to take our kiddos on individual "dates", they don't have to "earn" them, mom and dad just want to do it because we want to spend one on one time with them!
We had a great time with Cassys mom and brother and his wife over this weekend! Beautiful weather with beautiful people!
This week and for the next 6 weeks Jack will be doing survival swim lessons, he's been doing so amazing!
Having an amazing day with family with lots of bounce houses and food! Hope everyone has the best day!❤️
pictured below is our awesome kiddos with their amazing mamaw!
Goodness are these 2 sweet!!! We have been bless to have these sweet girls and we know they are going to do amazing things!!
Hope everyone has a safe and wonderful Labor Day!
We will spend our time hanging out by our lake with family and friends!
Our oldest had a great season with baseball this year! So awesome to get outside and have fun!!
Luke and I teach 3 and 4 year olds every other Sunday at our church and just love it!! They are full of life and love!
We had a eventful family pictures... bird pooped on mommas and jack was not having it from the beginning 😂🤣 love the real life photos! 🥰🥰
Mom and Dad took a little weekend get a way for Cassy's birthday and had a great time! Ate wayyy too much and laughed way too hard! It was so nice just getting way for a couple days, great way to keep the marriage on fire🥰
of course we missed the babies, but they were in great hands!!
Our sweet sweet Mae Mae has her kindergarten graduation today! She worked so hard this year and couldn't be more proud of her!!
Had an intense game of volleyball tonight at our house; always such a fun time to see the kids competitiveness come out!... and maybe mom and dads too😜
We are loving this beautiful weather so much we are even taking our snacks outside to enjoy as much as we can❤️
With all the toys this big boy got for his birthday, the box is his favorite 🤣
Today we celebrate not only Jack turning one, but also his first momma for her selfless deep love for him💕
Goodness do we love theses two! They are fierce, slightly sassy, strong and hard working... they are for sure our sour patch kids! Cannot wait too see what Gods going to do in their lives❤️
Our oldest Zane getting ready for his last night of flag football for the season, Dad has been their coach for the last 2 years and not sure who loves it more. Lol
The hubby and I took a short little weekend get away to cliffty falls this weekend and had a wonderful time!
We have been so crazy blessed by adoption! Our son is the most wonderful blessing! We would be honored to have our family continue to grow through adoption!
Stay in date nights are our new favorite thing, especially since the nights are getting cooler, but the kids in bed and enjoy a little us time keeps the marriage alive❤️
Happy first week of school! Mae started kindergarten, Rayln started 1st grad and Zane started 2nd. They are loving it so far!!!
Hope everyone is enjoying their summer! Ours has been absolutely amazing! Lots of swimming in the lake, just put in a beach at our place so we have just been loving that! We are trying to squeeze every last bit of summer out that we can, so we hope you enjoy your next couple weeks💕💕
Loving this sweet summer time just hanging out at home💕
We had the best time in Disney with Luke's family! He has seven brothers and sisters, some half, some step, and some adoptees.. there's so many of them we forgot which is which 🤣
We welcomed the most sweetest, baby boy this Monday! Our family is beyond in love and so proud of his first mom and all the selfless love she has showed for baby Jack!!!
We cannot wait to continue to grow our sweet, loving and large family 💕🥰
Big Easter adventure with Luke's family today!
Luke has 6 brothers and sisters so it's always a super fun-filled, loud, and lots of Little's running wild!
Hope everyone has an amazing Easter weekend 💕
We have such a fun morning playing in the snow, the kids LOVED it! Theses little 4-wheelers have been so fun for the kids!
2020 has been a year no one will ever forget, there's obviously been some ugly, but also some beautiful!
We decided to start 2021 fresh with a remodel of our kitchen to BRIGHTEN things up, so we thought we'd share!
Praying for many beautiful blessings for all of you this year!!
We love watching our sunsets in the evenings at our place!! It just does something so beautiful to the soul. Please feel free to reach out to us at anytime 💕
Happy New year!!!
We had a great night at the arcade!!
By far are favorite game is smashing some clowns!
We went out for pizza before hand, and it was amazing!
We had a great time gathering with family, playing board games and eating lots of amazing food!
Last night Luke surprised the family and set up the projector and had"tickets" so it sort of resembled a movie theater so we could watch the new wonder women!
Hoping everyone had a very Merry Christmas!!
We had such a absolute blast overlanding today! Beautiful weather and great company!
Just a fun day of making gifts for her uncles for Christmas... tye-dyed cooking's aprons 😂
Just having a fun day painting at home, on this cold winter day!
We love to do things like this when it's too cold to get outside, we love to see how creative kids can be!!
we took this thanksgiving to head down to beautiful Orlando, FL! We had an amazing week with lots of swimming, snow cones and everything princesses/ legos.
Dad beat everyone at mini golf.. again...
Had some of the best pizzas of our lives.. so much so we had it twice 🤪
Finished up the evenings with some great ice cream almost every night!
We had lots of laughs and fun with each other, it was magical!