Gifted Families

We became the Wilson family in May 2014. Waylon was born in June of 2015. I have always wanted to be a mom. I wanted to know what it felt like to have someone to love

Strong. That’s not a word that most people think of when they describe children. However, for our family, that word became our mantra on August 5th of 2012. My husband Aaron and I were already

Jaxon was born on May 6, 2010, and was diagnosed with Pierre Robin Syndrome, which is a very rare Craniofacial Disorder along with having a cleft palate. Jaxon has endured many surgeries so far in

We welcomed Hunter into the world in 2005.  We were full of joy, hope, and first-time parents worry.  We thought of how he would be as a baby, how he would grow up, and hopefully

Noah had his first febrile seizure when he was 9 months old. His second seizure came a week later. Noah was diagnosed with ventriculomegaly, Dimorphic Hippocampus and a partial duplication on one of his chromosomes.

I am often asked to describe the experience of raising a child with a disability – to try to help people who have not shared that unique experience to understand it, to imagine how it would feel.

Brandon and I were given our very first child on August 26, 2015, a daughter that we named Paislee. Paislee was found to have contracted a virus in utero that caused abnormal brain development.