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Greg & Katie are hopeful adoptive parents from Texas waiting to adopt a baby.

If you are pregnant and considering placing your child for adoption, please read the following Dear Birthmother Letter.

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Dear Birthparent, Thank you so much for taking an interest in our family. We deeply admire you for the decision you are making, for your selfless desire to put your child first. As we embark on our own side of the adoption experience, we are filled with love for birth parents making such great sacrifices for their children. We appreciate your love for your child and hope that you will find peace and great blessings through the choice you will make.

We are thrilled at the prospect of adopting a child and look forward to welcoming him or her into our family. We have one biological daughter, Ella, who came to us truly as a miracle in the midst of many years of infertility. Being parents is our greatest joy, and we yearn for another child to love, nurture, and marvel at. As much as we love our family and find great joy through our life together, we feel a great hole in our family where another child belongs. We know that this special and much-anticipated child will come to us through adoption, and we look forward to welcoming him or her into our family. Ella talks daily of “her baby” and tells us that she will be a good big sister—that she will feed the baby and take him or her to the zoo! The child we adopt will always be cherished and showered with affection.

Though this is our first personal experience with adopting a child, adoption has been a part of our lives for many years. I, Katie, have a teenage cousin, Madison, who was adopted in to the family as an infant and she and I have always had a special relationship and bond. Also, when I was a child my family, on separate occasions, hosted two teenage birth mothers, both close family friends, during their pregnancies. Watching each of them make the heartrending decision to place their baby in adoption profoundly affected my feelings about adoption and birth mothers. I loved them both like big sisters, and admired their courage in the face of what I witnessed to be the most painful decision they had ever made. They have been my role models as first they and then I grew and began our families.

Having children has always been very important to us, and it has been humbling to realize that we simply are not in control of how or when our children will come to us. When Ella was born, we fully recognized what a blessing and gift she was. We know that our next child will come to us through adoption and know that he or she will also be a great miracle in our lives. This child will come to us through the great sacrifice of another, and will be especially loved because of it.
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Our Fabulous Family We are a family devoted to one another and to serving the Lord. We met at a wedding, where Greg crossed a crowded reception to ask Katie to dance. As he impressed her with his swing dance moves and she tried desperately not to step on his feet, we knew that something special was beginning. An amazing relationship blossomed and a little over a year later we were married in the Oakland Temple. Eight years later we continue to be amazed at all the ways we complement and support one another.

It is very important to us that our home be centered around God and our family, and it is a very peaceful, happy place. We eat dinner together every evening and pray together every night before we go to bed. Monday nights are family nights, when we play games, eat treats, sing songs, and learn together from the scriptures. We want our home to be a safe oasis for our family.

Greg (by Katie)
Greg grew up in Utah and comes from a great family--I have always loved them a lot. I think a lot of the reason Greg is a terrific husband and father is because he has wonderful parents. He has five brothers and one sister and our reunions with them are always crazy and fun, with a bunch of little cousins running around.

In high school Greg loved music and drama--he played the saxophone and performed in various plays. He chose to attend Utah State University and before graduating took two years off to serve a full-time mission for our church in Oklahoma. He spoke Spanish on his mission and later studied it in college, and still speaks Spanish fluently.

What most impressed me about Greg when we met was his confidence in himself, his gracious treatment of others, and his unassuming dedication to doing what is right. I always felt so good and so comfortable around him, and still do. He is easygoing and even-tempered. He is a very tender, supportive husband, and I love him dearly. He is also a devoted and involved dad—our daughter Ella considers him her personal slave and can’t wait for him to get home from work every day. Being a great father comes very naturally to him and he has always shared with me in every aspect of rearing our child.

Greg is always up for and adventure. In his youth he spent a lot of time outside with his family waterskiing, camping, mountain climbing, SCUBA diving, and tubing down the river near their mountain vacation cabin. He still loves a challenge, be it physical or mental. He is a runner and recently ran his first marathon, with Ella and I cheering him on! He also enjoys puzzles like Su Doku, and loves to read; "The Lord of the Rings" is a favorite. Greg is great with computers. I call him my in-house tech support. He's always looking for new good music to listen to and we both love to go to concerts when our favorite bands come to town. He loves sailing, card games, good movies, ice cream, photography, and gummi bears.

Katie (by Greg)
Katie was born and raised in Northern California. She has one younger brother and a wonderful mother and father. When she was 15 her Grandfather bought a green '78 Mustang. He fixed it up, got it running (more or less!) and gave it to her for to drive. During her high school years she loved hanging out with her friends and driving to San Francisco. She worked on the yearbook staff and loved her English classes.

Before graduating from BYU Katie completed a semester study abroad in Madrid, Spain and later served a Spanish-speaking mission in Washington state. I met Katie one month after she returned from her mission. She was helping her favorite mission companion get ready for her wedding and I was the groom's 'best man'. It was a wonderful, memorable night.

Katie is a kind, loving and thoughtful wife and mother. She always has something fun to do with Ella during their hours together. She is also very dedicated to doing what is right and serving in the church. I love her very much. I want to be a better person because of who she is.

Having grown up in California, deep down, through and through Katie is a beach girl. She loves the beach and draws so much energy, relaxation, and satisfaction from being there. It is one of her greatest “happy places”. Katie enjoys going to the zoo, parks, museums, amusement parks, swimming pools, and the library. She and Ella started participating in library story time before Ella could walk! She loves to read and is nearly always in the middle of one book with another waiting on her nightstand. She is very skilled at beading beautiful bracelets, necklaces, and earrings. Ella even has a box of plastic beads and some yarn so she can “work on her bead project” with Mommy. Katie loves cooking, scrapbooking, shopping, roller coasters, snorkeling, yoga, wildflowers, playing the guitar, Junior Mints, and the company of family and good friends.

Family Fun We love to have fun together! We enjoy being outdoors and like to use our time together to explore places near our home. We have bikes, and a trailer for Ella, and we love to ride both close to home and around town. Ella also has a bike of her own and is practicing her skills often so that soon she will be able to ride with us on her own two wheels! We also like to take walks together, whether we're exploring a historic neighborhood or hiking in the hills. We enjoy taking picnics to favorite parks and when the wind is blowing just right we head to the school down the street to fly our stunt kite. We have annual passes to the zoo and when it's nice outside, we're there every week. It's one of our favorite places. When the weather is hot, and it often is, we try to stay wet at the pool, the beach, the river, or one of the nearby water parks.

We have a great time planning and taking vacations together as a family and occasionally as a couple. Our families are scattered across the country so we have frequent opportunities to travel. We always love to combine visits to family with exploring new places or returning to old favorites. Some highlights over the years have been Ella’s first trip to Disneyland, snorkeling in St. Croix, laughing at the sea lions in San Francisco, touring the amazing city of Chicago, and playing with cousins at our annual family reunions in Santa Cruz, California. We have dreams of all sorts of fabulous family vacations in the future, from Washington D.C. to Yosemite National Park.

When we do stay home, we also have lots of fun. We love our comfortable house and find peace in just being there together. Ella likes to help with the cooking and we all enjoy the eating! We like to play games, from cribbage to Candyland. When we watch movies together, we always have homemade popcorn and lemonade! Ella loves doing art projects and acting out all sorts of stories with her array of dolls and dollhouses. We all love to read stories together.

All About Love We hope that somehow, between our photos and these few words we've chosen to describe ourselves, you will be able to see what a fun, loving family we are. We truly love and enjoy one another, and look forward to sharing our lives and our love with another child.

As we seek to bring a child in to our family through adoption, we love and admire birth parents making very difficult decisions. Please know that in our family birth parents will be referred to with love and respect. We want to know our child’s birth parents and for them to know us, and are open to communication both before and after the birth, whatever amount the birth parents are most comfortable with. Again, thank you for your interest. We know that you will be blessed for your selfless love.

Sincerely,

Greg and Katie