This morning I was drinking my coffee and going over my calendar for the week and kept being interrupted by my best girl Harley laying beside me snoring in the most rhythmic pattern you’ve ever heard, it was almost like Nate Dog & Warren G out regulating… she’s laying there taking up more than her […]
Video: Our Story of Hope
About six months ago Donna and I were approached by NLC Creative to do a video interview with us where we openly discussed losing our daughter and adopting our son. This past weekend the video was shown at all NLC campuses around the state leading up to the new series for Easter weekend titled, “A Story […]
Operation: Ortner Adoption!
Update: 11/13/12 – I’ve had a lot of people ask how we did w/ this event and what the final number was. I’m happy to report that according to our estimates we are somewhere in the neighborhood of $21,000.00. God Bless Everyone that Took Part!!! A while back Donna and I asked Mike & Melisa […]
Updated: Spencer’s Baby Registries…
Okay, so here’s a list of Spencer’s updated Baby Registries, I think I had some bad links when I posted the other day so here’s the correct links / locations online. Please note that some of the places we have registered are local and do not have online baby registries yet, so we’ve also registered […]
Update: We’re Not in Kansas Anymore…
The past week was a whirlwind and I haven’t had a chance to update everyone in a few days so I figured it was time to push out an update today. We got to return to Arkansas last week w/ Spencer and he has been the center of attention every since. He had the opportunity […]
Morning Update from Kansas…
I sure wish I could say when we would be heading back to Arkansas but we really don’t know yet, we are still holding out hope for Wednesday morning… This is the third night since we’ve had Spencer that he went to bed before we did and got up after us, I guess he has […]