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Brian & Denise are hopeful adoptive parents from Illinois waiting to adopt a baby.

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

Dear Birthmother We understand you are making one of the biggest decisions of your life. We also know that with this comes a great deal of emotion and heartache. Your courage and strength are amazing.
We have always wanted a family. That was something that we discussed very early in our relationship. When we began planning our family we thought we would have at least two children. We talked about adoption and then found out that Denise had become pregnant in the third year of our marriage. Unfortunately, that pregnancy ended in miscarriage. Denise became pregnant again and, sadly, that pregnancy also ended in miscarriage. The loss of two babies has caused us both a great deal of pain and heartbreak.
After many tests, we learned that it will be nearly impossible for Denise to carry a pregnancy to term.
We know that God has a plan for us--we are looking forward to adopting our first baby and starting our family. We look forward to giving our future children so much love and happiness.
Thank you for taking the time to read our story. We hope you will decide to talk or meet with us.
Should you choose us to be the parents of your child, we promise to give your baby a happy home, loving family and friends, and wonderful experiences. We sincerely hope we will be given the opportunity to be loving parents.

We have both always loved spending time with children. In addition to having a niece and nephew who we love, we also babysit and spend a lot of time with our friends' children. Denise has spent many years volunteering with infants and small children; she is extremely comfortable holding, comforting, bathing, feeding, reading, singing and playing with them.
For the first few months, the baby will sleep in a cradle in our bedroom so he or she will be close to us at all times. We have chosen a pediatrician who is well-respected and will care for the baby from the very beginning of his or her life. Also, we plan to baptize the baby very soon after he or she is born.
We like to travel and we plan to take a lot of vacations with the baby. We will take trips to visit Grandpa, Grandma, Gigi, Great Grandpa, Aunt Dana, Uncle Marc and the cousins. When the baby is older we will also take him or her to other fun and exciting places.
We will read books and play many different types of music with the baby. Summers will be spent outside swimming, riding bikes and eating ice cream with friends. We will encourage him or her to become involved in activities and sports. The entire family will get involved in school projects and activities.

We were introduced by our good friend Matt. Matt and Brian played in a band together and I worked with Matt at a large, well-known newspaper.
We met in early summer and spent time going on walks by the lake, bike riding, and going to dinner with friends and family. A year later, we became engaged on a trip to Paris.
We were married on October 4, 2003 near the same lake where we took long walks when we dated. Our wedding was beautiful—the ceremony was held outside and the reception was gorgeous.
We are both professionals. Brian works as a Communications Director in city government and I am the Director of Sales for a digital ad agency.
We have so much fun together. We love to entertain at our home, travel, spend time with family and friends, ride our bikes, and go to movies in the park.

Brian is the kindest and most loving person I have ever known. He is extremely generous and has always put his family first. He has a lot of friends, many of whom he has known since high school.
He has a prosperous career as the Director of Communications for a very large city department.
I know he will make a wonderful father. He is great with our niece and nephew, Emily and Matthew. When they come to visit, he teaches Matt how to play guitar, shops with Emily and takes us all on boat rides, picnics in the park and site seeing.
He has taught me so much since I have met him. He is a wonderful husband!

Denise is the love of my life. She is the only woman that I even thought about marrying. I feel so lucky to be with her.
She keeps herself very busy with me, work, family and friends. She plans charity events and has volunteered for a large children's hospital as a nursing assistant for several years. As a nursing assistant she has held, fed and bathed infants that were either born prematurely or just very sick.
She also has spent time in the public schools teaching courses through Junior Achievement.
She loves spending time with family and friends—especially GUI niece and nephew. Our friends' kids love her, too.
I think she is beautiful, smart, caring and very funny. I know she will be a remarkable mom.

We feel very blessed to own such a beautiful and happy home. Our neighborhood is quite safe and we have a big fenced-in backyard where we have cookouts with our friends and family. Our home has three bedrooms upstairs and a big family room downstairs with plenty of room to play and spend family time.
Our neighbors have a one-year-old boy and our best friend lives right down the street.

Thank you for reading our story. We hope we get the opportunity to learn about you.
You are a strong and brave woman. Should you choose us to be your child's loving parents, we will make sure that he or she knows that they were a precious gift that came out of your tremendous love.



Brian & Denise