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We got married in March of 1999. Ryan enlisted into the army. I've done tours in Kosovo, Iraq, and
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Afghanistan. See the reality for children on the street in these different places. And I just wondered to myself
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now, where is he? Where is she? What happened to them? I have three incredible little men, the
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three boys, Taylor, Cole, and Riley, who I love beyond what I could ever say. It was actually Ryan who came to me. I
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was like, I think we should adopt. I just looked at him. I said, I think you're a little bit crazy.
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We found our daughters on a waiting child list. When we saw our girls' pictures on that
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website, it said contact Sue at Celebrate Children International. Children need to be in families, not in
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institutions. What's your name? What is his name? Many of these children would die if it wasn't for adoption. She can
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get you the youngest baby really fast. 3 to 6 months before she can go home. If you get a baby home in 5 months, I mean,
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you're going to love her. I had no way to find out that this was happening until it happened to me. I
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feel that I was taken advantage of. Her incountry representatives are being accused of heinous things. These things
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are not okay. We knew that international adoption is challenging. We were naive in how much real trouble there is.
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What's life or death? I mean, I've literally seen children die. The line between adoption, which is a beautiful
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thing, and child trafficking, which is deplorable, that line is all too fine. I mean, there needs to be a chasm between
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the two. I had to figure out how to get my girls home. If we want this to happen, we're just
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going to have to go do it ourselves. It's just unreal. I mean, is there anything else that a
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person can do to prove to the Congolese government I care about these kids? I love these kids enough to do whatever
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it takes to get them home. Whatever it takes.