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Brian & Chantel are hopeful adoptive parents from Utah waiting to adopt a baby.

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

Our Dearest Friend:

Thank you for being the path through which our child reaches our arms. We send you all of our love and hope that this letter finds you at peace. You are in our thoughts and our prayers and want you to know that you will always hold a special place in our hearts.

Above the crib in our nursery are the words, “We made a wish… and you came true” because it is a dream come true for us to be parents. Every night as we put our daughter to bed we see those words and are reminded how thankful we are that she is ours. She brings more joy to our lives than we ever thought possible and it has been amazing watching her grow. Our wish now is that she continues to be healthy and happy, and if it is the Lord’s will, that we can add more children to our family. We realize that without you, this may never happen so please know that we will never forget you and each night as we lay this new baby in the crib we will be reminded of you and how you made our wish for more children come true.

We can not begin to comprehend how hard this is for you. We can only
share our experience with you. We have both always wanted a big family but struggle with infertility. We were told by our doctors that we may never have children but despite the odds were blessed with our daughter Alicey in 2007. She is such a people person – she gets that from her dad. She loves playing with other kids and would love to have a brother or sister. We still want that big family, but realize that this may not happen naturally for us. We are excited about the adoption process and the opportunity it gives us to have the children we long for. We will never give up hope on our dream for more children. We have both been described as “stubborn” and work very hard at what we set our minds to and right now that is raising as many children as the Lord will bless us with.

Brian is a hard worker. In elementary school he started mowing lawns to earn extra money after school. With just his two hands, one lawn mower, and a lot of dedication, he turned that small job into one of the most successful landscape companies in his town. That after school job, in turn, paid for his college education where he received a degree in agricultural business. After fifteen years, he sold his company to pay for his graduate degree in business education. Although, he was sad to see the company that he had built from the ground up go, he welcomed the chance to further his education.

Chantel, as well, has a strong love of education. After seeing the movie Gross Anatomy in the sixth grade, she was convinced that she wanted to be a doctor. Even though everyone at the time told her it would be too hard she never gave up. At times, it was not easy. In high school, for example, she was the cheerleader at the back of the bus doing Calculus home work with a flash light instead of laughing with the other girls to and from the football games. Eventually, however, she succeeded and not only graduated with her medical degree, but received a triple degree that day, the first in the school’s history.

In addition to our formal education, we both very much strive for life long learning. Chantel loves to read and rarely is not in the middle of a book. She enjoys cross stitch, quilting, and sewing. She loves to play the piano.Brian enjoys learning as well and often be found on the computer reading about a new subject. He frequently attends seminars teaching him new computer programs, new investment strategies, or new ways to buy and sell real estate, which he loves. We both love that we can now teach our daughter. What a joy it is to see her face light up as she learns something new. We have delighted in her first step, her first word and look forward to a lifetime of new firsts with her and any other children we are blessed with.

Our children are our priority and we have balanced our work schedules to ensure that one of us is almost always with our daughter. Brian is blessed to be able to work from home and Chantel has arranged her schedule so that she is only working ten hours per week and it is flexible enough so that she can do most of her work over naptime so that she doesn’t miss out on any time being a mom.

We love to be together as a family. We have more fun together than with anyone else and have never laughed as much as we have with each other. We love to travel and frequently take trips together. We enjoy the outdoors, especially looking at nature and all the beautiful places that are on this earth. We love going to plays, the symphony, and the opera but recently have found joy in the zoo, the playground, the park, and anything that allows us to spend time together with our daughter.

Family is very important to us. We were blessed to be born into wonderful families, each in their own way. We couldn’t have been raised more differently, different states, backgrounds, parenting style, hobbies, and even religions but somehow all the differences work. Our marriage is not perfect. We’ll be the first to admit that. We have had to learn to take our individual views and shape them into common ground. This hasn’t been without the occasional argument but we know that we are in an eternal marriage and it makes every struggle worth it and has only strengthened our marriage. We are looking forward to raising our children with a little of each of what we were given from our families. What a perfect blend of two very different worlds.

We are just normal people, trying to follow the plan our Heavenly Father has for us. Our lives our not perfect; we can not guarantee we will be perfect parents. We can tell you with absolute certainty, however, that we will love any child that comes to our home with all our hearts. We will try to teach them to be faithful servants of our Father in Heaven and to keep his commandments. We are grateful to have the loving support of a large extended family that will be there to support us every step of the way. We also know that our Heavenly Father will continue to guide our lives in the direction they should go. We leave our faith in him because we know he will never leave us.

We send you all our love, thoughts, and prayers and know the Lord will guide your heart in this decision.

With love,
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