When they first married 17 years ago, Josh and Allison Lewis could have never expected their lives to look the way they do today.
Five children later, the Lewis clan is better than any family the couple could have ever dreamed of.
After giving birth to Abby (11), Jack (9) and Isabel (8), the family welcomed their first adopted son, Micah (5). Then Allison gave birth to their daughter Julia (3).
Their hearts were full, but there was still something missing.
On October 30, 2015, Allison got a phone call that would change their lives forever. It was her friend and adoption attorney calling with some unbelievable news.
“She said that she’d remembered our talking about possibly wanting to adopt again and then shared that she was aware of a birth mom who needed a family for her baby.”
Allison called her husband with the intention of just planting the seed—getting the conversation started.
“But instead of proceeding with his typically logical, slow process of decision-making, he exclaimed, ‘Absolutely! This is so clearly an answer to what we’ve been praying.’”
Three weeks later, the family received a call saying that baby Sam’s mother was in labor.
“We wildly threw the kids and a handful of luggage into the van and hit the road for the 10-hour trip to Duke University Hospital in Durham, NC.”
While on the road, the adoption attorney called
“Does Josh have both hands on the steering wheel?” she asked.
She then went on to tell the Lewis family that doctors had just discovered through an ultrasound that there were actually TWO babies on their way! The mother was having twins.