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Welcome to the current state of life of Todd and Erin where the word “we” started at the elementary school water fountain. Boy met girl, boy was too shy to talk to girl, but no worries girl talks to anyone and was especially interested in this boy with the big smile and brown eyes.  Awwh, sweet thought but no, actually we weren’t young sweet hearts, we were both in college working on our teaching degrees.  That’s how it all started.
Now, 17 years of marriage later and 5 kids later, the word “we” is still going strong! 

We love our life together, we adore our kids, and we worship an awesome mighty God.  We were both adopted.  Adopted by His amazing grace, His intentional love was sent to find us- yes, we were sought- ONE SOUGHT ME.  We were lost and in a sinful state.  We chose to be recipients of the sacrificial gift of one, Jesus.  His love overwhelmed us. In His unconditional, never changing love we were welcomed into the family of God.  We were accepted. We were changed. We are children of the King and you can be too.  There’s always room for ONE more.   




Read more about us,see more pictures, and learn about our hearts to adopt here.  

WATCH our family video here: http://onesoughtme.blogspot.com/2013/06/family-video.html


   (First family picture when I started this blog!)

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