Kiah was born in 1992, and a couple years after she was born, we began trying to get pregnant. We visited several infertility specialists, went through a gamut of tests and a myriad of procedures all up the point of the $10,000 process of In Vitro Fertilization. When we decided to pursue adoption. We began getting all of our paper work in order, which when you go through it for the first time is a lengthy bureaucratic process. We had our home study completed, a family portfolio all ready to go in Utah in 1998 when Mark took a new job in California and we moved. We found it much harder and much more expensive to update our information in California than we had anticipated.

After working for a year, living in an apartment with no grass or play space, we decided to move back to Utah. My work was flexible enough to allow me to work out of my home, and we would be able to pursue adoption again. Upon moving back, we updated our home study and began looking for adoption agencies.

In August of 1999, we flew back to San Francisco while Mark visited the home office, and while there we got a call from a Lawyer, Mikal Grass, in Florida who had received our information and who had a pregnant birth mother who was interested in our information. We faxed him all the materials, and after a nervous phone call, he told us that Neecho had chosen us. We flew home to Utah on a Friday evening, Saturday morning Sofi was born, and that evening we were on a plane to Florida and Sunday morning at 2:30 am we stepped out of the airport into the humid air and made our way to our hotel. Monday we went to the hospital to pick Sofi up.