Our Journey to Bring Nic from an Orphanage in Ukraine.

Visit us at or on IG @DownrightWonderful for more. We had never considered adoption before but while participating in our first Buddy Walk for Down syndrome after our 6th child, Colt, was born with Down syndrome we came across Reece’s Rainbow, a ministry whose mission is to find families for orphans with Down syndrome, and read that in other parts of the world these children are viewed as outcasts with no ability to learn or be functional members of society, languishing in mental institutions, hidden away from the world in shame — our heart broke for these children. We saw their faces and pictured Colt being born into those circumstances. From that moment on, we wanted to adopt a child with Down syndrome out of one of these orphanages. We put the Reece’s Rainbow magnet on our refrigerator and said that “one day” we were going to adopt...