Our Family

Episode 6: The Adoption is official!

February 09, 2021
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Episode 5: The Holtz kids choose new names!

February 09, 2021
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Episode 4: The Holtz Family explores the start of family life.

February 09, 2021
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Episode 3: The Holtz Family bonds, leading up to Gotcha Day!

February 09, 2021
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Episode 2: Holtz Family meet their children!

February 09, 2021
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Episode 1: Adopting 5 Siblings from Costa Rica!

February 09, 2021
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Are We Under a Spell?

This picture started it all… (found this gem in my journal after leaving it unattended for a short stent). My heart melted...tears swelled up a bit! I will never lose this page and it will forever be apart of my journal!

December 12, 2019
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A Christmas Challenge: Gather Together!

I wrote this short poem as a challenge to “Gather Together” this season… But, not just to gather but to truly be together! I’m NOT a poet but the words just came to me as I thought about my children and all the moments gained and lost.

November 19, 2019
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We Are Traveling!!!!

After 2.5 years of pursuing adoption, we received our call that it is finally time to go and pick up our children!! Excitement has been high around here as we prepare our entire family to travel to Costa Rica…

November 18, 2019
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Holtz Family Adoption Update... 11 kids?

The Update:

We have been pursuing a sibling set of what we thought was 4 children ages 4 to 11... As we dug into their story we found that it was actually a sibling set of 6...