Dear Birthmother,
To Someone Very Special,

We would like to take this opportunity to thank you for considering us as adoptive parents for your baby. This decision has to be one of the most important and difficult you have ever made in your life!! You are about to give a family the most selfless gift one person can give another. We can only hope that this precious child could be our bundle of love and joy. Please know that you are in our thoughts and prayers daily. May God bless you and watch over you during this time.

We are Bryan and Katherine. We have a loving marriage filled with friendship and respect for one another. Our faith, family, friends, career and life will enable us to be caring and devoted parents. We have strong and intact relationships with our families and look forward to sharing a son or daughter with our large network of family and friends. We have been very fortunate to have careers that have enabled us to have a beautiful home, travel, build our financial future and give back to those who are in need.

We believe that life has its struggles and infertility has been ours. We love children and know that a special little person will complete our family. Katherine has expressed it perfectly, “We just know in our hearts that we were meant to adopt”!! We believe a child needs to be taught how to treat others with respect and value the importance of doing the right thing while being honest and kind. We want to impart a sense of adventure in a child and do not want him/her to ever feel afraid of trying new things. We believe that children need structure and consistency while being given freedom to learn and play. We look forward to introducing our child to a myriad of learning opportunities, such as travel and learning a second language. Our hope is to give a child the opportunity to embrace life and learn as much as he/she can from every experience. Now we look forward to giving you a glimpse into our life together and as individuals.

Bryan and Katherine
Our courtship was a romantic time made all the more enjoyable by the fact that we lived in a quaint area. We spent a lot of time getting to know each other and our families, walking to neat shops and restaurants, traveling and planning for our future together. It was no surprise to anyone that we knew within a few weeks we would marry. We are fun loving people who enjoy college football, entertaining in our home, hiking, skiing and many outdoor activities. We love a wide variety of foods and enjoy spending time on our deck grilling out.

We both were raised by loving Christian families. Discipline, love, values, and a general sense of “doing the right thing” are just a few of the attributes both of our parents instilled in us while growing up. Our families are the soul of our marriage. Needless to say: we talk to them weekly, visit often, spend holidays with them and have planned for the future and their care.

Bryan
I will always remember the butterfly feeling I got after meeting Bryan. He has the most beautiful smile and the kindest eyes that “melt my heart”. He has a great sense of humor as well as being one of the most confident people I know. Bryan has a way to make everyone feel comfortable and special around him. He is intelligent, well-educated and has the uncanny sense of handling life’s surprises.

Bryan is very active and loves to run road races. He is always trying to improve himself by reading, seeking wisdom from his elders and continually building a stronger relationship with God. I am always amazed at the close friendships he has maintained throughout the years. Children also gravitate to Bryan. There are always children in our neighborhood who run to Bryan and want to be spun around. All you can hear are giggles and shear delight when he spins them around and around. Overall, Bryan is funny, generous, loyal, hardworking and respectful. This speaks volumes about the wonderful man who will be the best Dad in the world!!!

Katherine
Katherine is a beautiful woman inside and out. She is confident, outgoing and funny. Katherine’s warm personality allows her to make friends easily. She has many long lasting friendships with people from all over the country. People are just drawn to her personality. She is very loyal and there is nothing she wouldn’t do for a friend.

Katherine is also very passionate about those she loves. I am very fortunate to be one of those people! I am always amazed by the passion she shows for our marriage, her compassion for the needy people she assists in her job and the love she has for our triplet nephews. Her work and our nephews bring out the caring and nurturing spirit she has for the sick and young. She spends a lot of time with her sister, Lori and the triplets. And oh, do they love to see her! Watching her with them, I know that she was born to be a mother. She is very excited about the day when we get the opportunity to share our hearts and lives with a child. Overall, Katherine is outgoing, friendly, nurturing and passionate.

Our Life Together
Our life together is full of love, laughter and adventure. Most weekends we can be found working in our yard or being handy around the house. Fall is our favorite season due to our love for college football. We have a closest full of Gator apparel for a baby!!! We love to meet up with our friends and their children for cook outs, walks in the park and love the smells of Thanksgiving around the corner. YAYA and PAPA, my Mom and stepfather, have a huge Thanksgiving lunch where we all get in a circle and say what we’re thankful for that year. We look forward to the day we can sit at the “kiddie table” because we have a child!!!

Winter is mild where we live. It may snow one time a year….wish we got more!!! Since Bryan’s parents and sister live in Florida, we always have a sunny and warm place to visit family and Mickey Mouse. Every winter we travel to Canada and Colorado to ski, snow shoe, cross country and ice skate. We look forward to introducing a child to the ski slopes when he/she is age-appropriate. Our neighborhood has oyster roasts, marshmallow bonfires and a great cul de sac across from our house where there are always strollers and big wheels.

Spring and summer brings beautiful flowers and the beach. We spend a lot of time at Granddaddy and Nanna’s beach house. Our favorite time is sunset while rocking on the deck. Our dog and my Dad’s dog hang out with us and demand to sit on the swing in the screened in porch. We make homemade ice cream and always have shrimp boils with the neighbors. We also have an annual beach trip with our friends from Florida, Georgia, California and Illinois. There are always children running around ready to jump into the pool and build sand castles. The adults need a vacation after five days!!! All of the kids ask us why we don’t have a baby; we explain that God hasn’t blessed us yet.

That brings us to the three most precious creatures on earth. Cameron, Preston and Gavin are our 21 month old nephews. They came into this world at 29 weeks, 11 weeks premature. They were the size of Pound Puppy stuffed animals. They stayed in intensive care eight weeks before they were strong enough to come home. We lived in another state at that time but that did not stop Katherine from making the three and a half hour trip every week. She also was there the first weekend they came home. Boy, boy, and boy was that hard work but so worth every blink of lost sleep. They are beautiful boys with bright blue eyes and smiles that would melt metal. Our child will have an instant circle of cousins who love to play and laugh.

Remember that spoiled dog referred to earlier? That is Miss Riley. We adopted her one month after we married from a dog rescue shelter. She is the most amazing dog who loves children. We can’t imagine her not being a part of our family, even though she’s a Daddy’s Girl.

Our House
We have a beautiful home in a neighborhood filled with kids. We live on a cul de sac which will be perfect for playtime. The house has four bedrooms, a study, dining room, living room, gourmet kitchen, bonus room, two and half baths, deck and two car garage. The nursery is beside our bedroom and already has some special things that will be our baby girl/boy’s.

Why Adoption?
We love children and look forward to the day we get the phone call to pick up our sweet baby boy/girl we have waited for so long. Infertility has been one of the biggest obstacles in our lives. We never thought we wouldn’t be able to have children. Two years ago we lost a baby at 12 weeks due to the baby not developing. We learned after several invasive treatments and the loss of twins after a few weeks into pregnancy; we would not be able to have biological children.

Adoption always tugged at our heart strings during these difficult times. Children would look at Katherine and smile as if to tell her, “Your baby is on its way”. We love children and know that any child is a gift from God. We truly feel adoption is the greatest gift a birth family can give to another family. We are certain there’s a special child who will come into our life and complete our family.

Thank you again for letting us share our life with you and considering us as parents for your precious child. If you would like to learn more about us and our life together, please call Cindy anytime at A Act of Caring 1-800-556-5635. We look forward to getting to know you as well.
We pray that God will guide us all through this journey.

With Heartfelt Love,

Bryan and Katherine