Jenny and Dave Marrs Celebrate ‘Miracle’ Daughter Sylvie’s 11th Birthday
By Movieguide® Contributor
HGTV stars Jenny and Dave Marrs recently gave a birthday shout out to their daughter, Sylvie, on Instagram.
The couple celebrated Sylvie’s 11th birthday with heartfelt tributes on social media for their daughter.
Jenny wrote:
E L E V E N✨ How can it be that my squishy toddler with the raspy voice and adorable accent is standing before me now as this lovely young lady exuding both strength and grace? How can it be that the years of praying and pining for your physical presence in our family feel equally like a lifetime and a blink ago?
I remember, years ago, as I would lie beside you at bedtime, rubbing your back and reassuring you that I was here and you were safe, you would whisper the same words night after night: ‘God carried me home, momma.’ Indeed He did, my girl. He knew that our little family would never have been complete without you. And He knew that this crazy world of ours desperately needs you to shine your brilliantly bright, beautifully radiant light. Keep shining, my love. ✨.
Happiest of birthdays to you, Sylvie-loo! We loved celebrating you today! I love you to the moon and back times one million!!! ?.
The Marrs adopted Sylvie from the Democratic Republic of Congo in 2013. Movieguide® reported:
The couple previously opened up about God’s call on them to adopt and the joys and challenges of their journey.
“I feel like God put [it] on our hearts that she was ours and right when you knew, it was just like, ‘Yup.’ It was a key in a lock,” Dave told PEOPLE in an exclusive interview.
“The emotion of it was really similar to the birth of our bio children — that first time holding them,” his wife added. “I get emotional thinking about it, ’cause it was just really special.”
The renovation duo shares four children in addition to Sylvie.
Jenny said that their interest in adoption grew when they researched the challenges orphans face across the world.
Jenny previously said that the adoption was miraculous:
“On this day, 8 years ago, I bore witness to a miracle. An honest to goodness God-sized, Red-Sea-parting kind of miracle.” …
She continued:
Hope had nearly been lost. Despair had slowly seeped in. We had no way of knowing if our daughter would ever be back in our arms. 602 days of waiting, 602 days of praying and pleading and calling Congressmen and Senators and flying over the sea to beg the US Embassy to help. Emails and letters and phone calls with no traction toward getting her home left us depleted.
Make no mistake – a battle took place to bring our daughter home. The exhale that took place when she was back in my arms on US soil was echoed in heaven. The spiritual battle that I couldn’t see during those long days and nights was finally over.
I post this photo every year on this day to remember. I never want to forget the way the Lord fought on our behalf. The things He has in store for Sylvie must certainly leave the enemy shaking in fear or else he wouldn’t have worked so tirelessly to keep her from us.
It’s hard to believe eight years have passed since this day when our family was finally under the same roof.
May the Lord bless Sylvie and the Marrs family with many more such happy birthday celebrations!
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