Yum yum yum.
You did so good.
If it was my choice I would start my own orphanage
and just take on all the children in the world
that needed help. - We already did.
We did.
And bless our food.
In Jesus' name.
Amen. - Amen.
I am Carrie Kosinski,
and this is my husband Craig Kosinski,
and we have six beautiful children together,
four of which we are in the process of adopting,
and two biological children.
- Grandma and Grandpa, which is my mom and dad,
live close, and will come by generally about once a week.
Grandma and Grandpa are very involved.
- [Grandpa] Come on, let's go, horses wanna get out.
- [Grandma] Let's go let the horsies out, come on.
Throw it!
Nice try!
- I grew up on a farm just north of here.
I thought I'd be married a lot sooner.
She took so long to show up.
- I think I told him yes 20 times
before he put the ring on my finger.
- She got a little excited.
My brother has a smaller tractor,
so she came in on the scoop and, raised her up,
and she's looking over the whole crowd.
- I wasn't stressed out one bit, and usually the brides
are going crazy, making sure everything's perfect.
And I'm like, I don't care if something goes wrong.
I'm just gonna have fun.
One of the questions that I had for him
was actually about fostering and adopting
and it was kind of a deal breaker for me
whether or not he'd be okay with adopting,
because I'm one of nine,
so I had a big family growing up, and I was adopted.
I wanted to open my home up to children in need.
He said that he would be open to it,
and that is why I chose to marry him.
- Kenna.
You too Arthur.
Here Kenna.
Take Arthur, oh.
I'm thinking okay, well, we'll have two or three kids
of our own, and then look into adopting.
Most people do it in that order.
Here you go Red.
- Though we were trying to have our own kids.
That wasn't working out.
We struggled with infertility, and we were told basically
that we wouldn't be able to get pregnant.
Then my friend contacted me,
asking us if we would take on her child.
At that time, we only knew that it was one.
We didn't know that it was twins.
She basically said that she couldn't take care of them,
and so she needed somebody that would be willing
to give them the love that they deserved.
And of course I was like, "Well yes, let's just do this."
- Jump!
- [Carrie] So we drove to Ohio, nine hours away,
and we went home with Kenna and Adalynn.
A year later, she contacted us again,
and asked us to take care of JJ and CeCe.
We said yes.
- [Craig] We still wanted to have our own children.
- We decided to go through IVF.
Put two embryos in, and we got two babies out of it.
Karraline and Clarissa.
- We consider them miracle babies.
They were just shy of 25 weeks,
and were born at one pound, six ounces a piece.
I have imagined getting married
and having three or four kids.
Things have definitely changed.
We have twice as many children as I thought we would have.
♪ Time won't you sing with me ♪
- Okay, very good.
- Grandma will come by, she'll help out.
A little dishes, a little cleaning,
and she'll read stories with the kids.
This is Dad's property that we live on.
This is a great place for them to live.
Grandma spoils them at birthday and Christmas.
She's probably already got Christmas presents.
Well I'd just really like to thank my mom and dad.
It wouldn't have been possible without them.
- I told him to come up with a list of the first big things
that they helped him out with, and did for him.
- Dad's gonna be 90.
It'd be nice to have a formal thank you.
- [Carrie] I made you some nice, yummy dessert.
- Oh, there we go. - That's what I smelled.
- Peanut butter cookies. - Now you're talking.
- [Craig] They're famous.
- It tastes pretty good.
- Mom and Dad, we want to thank you for giving birth to me.
- It's a pleasure.
- Helping me with my first house.
Demonstrating both generosity and frugality.
- Shouldn't be using such sharp, fancy words.
- Frugality. - Making it hard
on the parents.
- You know, in the Word it says
that God makes us sons and daughters by adopting us,
and you guys have allowed us
to be able to adopt a son and daughters as well.
- [Grandma] It's okay, we try to help you guys.
- We appreciate what you do for others.
It's a big thing in a person's life.
- Okay, so in closing, after that, Mom and Dad,
we sincerely thank you for everything
that you have done throughout our lives.
We love you and would not be where we are today
without your love and support.
- What's special about our family
is the way it's been brought together.