About the McBabies



We’re a family with six adopted boys. Adoption has been a part of our lives for the last 7 years. We started the journey out of desperation. During the journey our desperation turned to conviction. This site tells stories. They are the stories of our journey. We love sharing this journey with anyone who wants to hear and we’d love to hear yours too!

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• Stories

  • Bradford Ellissia McNeely
  • Holidays
  • Sawyer and Wyatt
  • Dawson and Smyth’s Story
  • Davis’ Story
  • Emerson’s Story
  • Our Story
  • Why Adopt?

• Recent Posts

  • A year ago
  • April 3, 2010
  • March 15, 2010
  • January 27th, 2010
  • January 16, 2010

• Most recent comments

  On A year ago (4 comments)
  Bryonie said: The year mark is hard. I wanted to use it to celebrate the fact that I had been through so much heartbreak and I STILL believed – I...
  B said: THank you for sharing your beautiful heart. WE continue to pray for you and the desires of your precious heart and for healing of the wounds of your...
  Mindy said: Just checking in on you and just read your post. Again, such a beautifully written post. Your honesty just speaks to my heart. I did exactly what...
  Deidre Bridges said: Hey Judith, I’m the friend of Hal and Betty’s from Macon who had a full term still born son 22 years ago this May. I just...
  On April 3, 2010 (4 comments)
  Tiffany Moody said: So glad that your test results were good news…Praise God! Hang in there…hopefully you will be feeling better soon.
  On March 15, 2010 (4 comments)
  Tiffany Moody said: Your honesty continues to be a breath of fresh air Judith…thank you so much for opening your soul so freely.

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  • March 2009

Sawyer and Wyatt are home

And pictures are what you shall have! The McNeely family is whole once again. Amen and amen, God is good.

Just saw this on David’s Facebook: “I’m home. Listening to the sound of 6 boys hitting it off with each other. At peace again in the presence of my bride.”

My wife Rachel and I got to spend a few hours with David, Judith’s mother, Sawyer and Wyatt this morning in D.C. after they arrived on the 16-hour flight from Addis Ababa and cleared customs. They had a 5-hour layover, and we got to relax and hold these precious new McBabies while Mrs. Smyth and David got to eat some food and let someone else hold the boys after 16 straight hours of sitting in their laps on the plane. (Interesting: We counted at least 12 other newly-adopted children coming off the plane before Sawyer and Wyatt.)

I’ll let David and Judith tell you all about them — especially their riveting stories of how they found their way into an orphanage and ultimately into this family — but they were both sweet, tired little boys. Sawyer was pretty attached to Mrs. Smyth (he prefers the ladies!), but Wyatt is apparently a fearless charmer.

Enjoy the pictures. Click to enlarge. Oh yeah, Sawyer is in the red in pics 3,4,6 and 7. Wyatt is in the rest of the pics (in orange), including the little feet.