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Paul & Brooke are hopeful adoptive parents from Georgia waiting to adopt a baby.

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

Dear Friend We want to thank you for taking the time to get to know us a little. We can’t imagine what you must be going through and deeply appreciate your considering placing your baby for adoption and reading our letter. Pregnancy is difficult under any circumstances and we have such deep respect for you. We know you want what is best for your baby. We hope that you have all the support that you need and are comforted and blessed for your kind heart and your bravery.
We are a happy family with two darling boys. We have strong feelings that there is a special little girl out there for us. I am a stay at home Mom and I feel very blessed with my life and family. I consider myself a happy and outgoing person. I enjoy being around friends and family and I love art. My husband Paul is a sweet, quiet, and thoughtful person. He and I are often teased that we are more like brother and sister than like husband and wife. We always joke and are very playful with each other. He is absolutely my best friend.

How we met We met when we were in high school. Brooke remembers, “He was a writer for the newspaper staff and I was the teacher’s aide for the class. I noticed his big blue eyes and his beautiful lips and also his smart way of speaking.” Paul remembers, “In high school I was a quiet, academic type. I never would have spoken to my wife if she hadn't’t talked to me.” Brooke remembers, “I was supposed to go on a group date and my date canceled, so I walked up and asked him if he would go with me having never talked to him before. He was very nice and seemed so nervous to be talking to me. I thought it was adorable.” “I could hardly believe what was happening. I had noticed her before and I thought she was beautiful. I said yes.”
That date changed our lives. Paul explains, “It was a fantastic date for two reasons: the way she drove her car and the conversation. She drove like no girl I’d ever known, aggressive but casual, and I was impressed. Even with her aggressive driving, the twenty minute drive from dinner to miniature golf took hours because of the conversation. We both knew where we were going but we would miss our turn and wouldn't’t notice. We just drove and talked for hours and it was wonderful.” Brooke felt the same way. “We had such an easy time talking with each other. This confused me when he didn't’t call until two weeks later! He finally did call and we had our second wonderful date.” Paul has an excuse for not calling her. “It’s embarrassing to admit it but I had no idea what I was doing. I was inexperienced. I really liked her but I wasn't’t sure about how to proceed. A friend told me I better call her so I did.” We were always together after that and were married about two years later in the Salt Lake Temple.

about each other Paul has been in college for most of our marriage. He is very passionate about whatever he is doing in school or just with ideas he gets and about being the best Husband and Father. He works so hard at it and I think he really loves it. Just after I had our second son, Sam, I was hospitalized with a breast infection. The day I was supposed to get out of the hospital, Paul had a big final to take. After days of taking care of our one year old and our newborn and trying to study, he dropped one son off to me and one off to my sister & went to take his final. He was supposed to pick us up right after his test but instead, he got a flat tire in the parking lot of his school and couldn't’t get the lug nuts off. He was two hours late! When he showed up, he was so exhausted and he just laughed at how horrible and hard things had gone. He was so loving and funny about the whole thing. It made me feel like we would be happy no matter what.
My wife Brooke is amazing in so many ways. One of her best features is her desire to love and nurture other people. Before our sons were born, Brooke worked as a dialysis technician working with patients who have kidney failure. The dialysis process is painful and time consuming. The patient’s lives are often quite difficult. Their health, in general, was often poor and many of them had no hope of recovery. As a result, many of them became grumpy and uncooperative. Most of the dialysis technicians remained very detached from the patients. They would endure the grumpiness unhappily and raced through their work to avoid interacting with the patients. Brooke was different. She went out of her way to talk to the patients. She asked them deep questions (no one does it better than Brooke), shared her thoughts with them, and got to know them. She seemed to especially enjoy working with the grumpiest patients. Rather than avoiding them, Brooke found a way to brighten their day. She would tease them or flirt with them. She loved them and they loved her back. Dale was one such patient. When Dale died, his wife gave Brooke a note. In it she wrote, “There were very few reasons that Dale looked forward to ever coming to dialysis, and you were at the very top of his reasons. Oh, how he loved your smile, and sweet spirit, the gentle way you took care of him.” This was not an isolated case. She was invited to, and attended, more of the patients’ funerals than any of the other technicians or nurses. Brooke’s nurturing attitude and loving spirit have been a constant through her life. She has been a “surrogate mother” to a number of children, from her nephew Eythan to a neighbor girl named Kimmy, who have had troubled lives and who Brooke has embraced and encouraged to live as the Lord would like them to. The same traits that have made Brooke a friend to so many people make her an amazing mother. She is naturally nurturing. She loves our children and they know it. They’re lucky kids.

being Parents It took us a long time to conceive our first son. We were in the process of trying to adopt when I became pregnant. After Fisher was born I got pregnant with Sam right away. They were only eleven months apart! Fisher is now four years old. He is very smart and excited about life. He loves animals and bugs and he loves growing big and strong. Sam is a grouchy but sweet little three year old boy. He loves to play with his Thomas trains and he loves to snuggle with his mommy and wrestle with his brother. After having a couple of our own kids we still feel strongly that we are supposed to adopt, and we can hardly wait! I feel that we will have at least a few more kids and I don’t know if they will come through my belly or someone else’s, but I’m excited either way. I think adoption is such a beautiful way to build a family.
We have absolutely loved being parents. We are both just so in love with our boys. It is so fun to watch them learn new things and become who they will be. We believe they have unique little spirits that they come with. We believe that we are all Heavenly Father’s children and that we are entrusted to raise some of them and it is a huge privilege. We believe that children and people are innately good and need to know what is expected of them. We spend a lot of time talking to our kids and helping them understand how things work and what’s expected of them and how much we love them. When they do something wrong, they are taken aside until they calm down and understand enough to stop what they are doing. We think it’s important to talk about it and apologize and hug when it’s over. We want so much to have a big, happy family where we all feel loved and are able to be ourselves. We want to see our kids grow to be successful and have happy lives and we hope to teach them to do that.
We love to play and wrestle with our kids. Our favorite thing is to go to the beach as a family. We all love to be in the sun and play in the sand and hear the water. We are big on adventure and vacations and try to make every day happy.
We would be so happy to meet you and get to know you. If we were chosen we would be happy to send letters and pictures throughout the child’s life if that’s what you would like. Thank you for getting to know us and we pray that you will have guidance and peace with your decision.
With love,
Brooke & Paul