Saturday April 24th Jon and I will be running a 5K to raise money for our adoption. We only have about 3 weeks to get into shape for the run. We have been running in the evenings for the past few days and we are pretty sore to say the least. We would appreciate any help and support in the run. You can support us from our page where you see the donate button, or you can come out and watch us conquer this bad boy! We have been trying to come up with ideas to raise money for our adoption, and we came across this idea. We hope to come up with many more ways to raise money in the very near future, so if you have any suggestions we would greatly appreciate them!

Welcome, Our Story

Welcome to our site! For those of you who do not know us here is a little bit of our history. We are Jon and Lindsay Larson and we are both origionally from Missoula, Montana but currently live in Anchorage, Alaska. We were quitely married March 5, 2006 and held our wedding ceremony July 8, 2006 (this is the one most are familiar with). We both knew right away that we wanted to start a family. We were living in San Diego where Jon was stationed in the Marine Corps. and were planning on moving back home to Montana the following year. We origionally planned to start our family when we returned home, but that idea quickly went out the window. Once we did move back to Montana we had been trying for a family for almost a year with no luck. In December of 2007 we found out we were pregnant, and were ecstatic. This quickly changed when Lindsay ended up in the emergency room on her birthday due to a ruptured fallopian tube from an ectopic pregnancy. We were extremely devestated but had high hopes for getting pregnant again. Our hope for getting pregnant has still not faded, but after 4 years, we are now ready to take a new path. We recently visited a new doctor in Anchorage, and after several tests found out that our best chance for getting pregnant would be invitro fertilization. We are not completely opposed to this, but the fact is IVF is extremely expensive, and it is not a guarantee to get pregnant. We have had years of heartache, and decided that if we are going to spend the money, we want somthing a little more guaranteable. Adoption has always been something we talked about, but I guess in the back of our minds we always figured we would eventually get pregnant. Now our choice is crystal clear, and it feels like it is the right thing for us to do to become a family. We are both very excited about this choice and our future! We wanted to create this website so our friends and family would be able to follow us along our journey, since we are so far from home. We also wanted to create this site for ourselves, so we will always have something to look back to on our journey of a lifetime. And finally we want to create this site for our future child, so that he (or she) will always know that he was not "given up" for adoption, but that his parents fought for him through adoption. Thank you for taking the time to learn our story, and we hope you will follow us in our journey!