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Shane & Yvette are hopeful adoptive parents from Michigan 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 know you have a lot on your mind right now and we don't pretend to know what you are going through. Thank you for considering adoption and for making someone's dreams of parenthood come true.

Who Are We?
We are Shane and Yvette, two teachers who would love to share our lives with a child. We respect you and admire your courage as you journey through making a birth plan for you and your child. We hope that you find peace and strength during this time. Thank you for taking the time to learn more about us and for your thoughtful consideration of us as parents for your child.

How We Met...
We met in Kalamazoo, Michigan, in January of 1999. Shane had just graduated from Western Michigan University in December of 1998, and he accepted a long term substitute teaching assignment in the elementary school where Yvette did her student teaching and accepted her first teaching job. We became friends and started dating about 7 months later.

Our Wedding...
We were married on a beautiful summer day in 2002. The day was special to us not only because of our wedding but because it was Yvette’s grandmother’s 90th birthday as well. We celebrated our wedding and her birthday with about 150 family and friends. Yvette’s grandmother passed away the spring after we were married, and we cherish our memories of her on our wedding day.

Our Marriage...
We are best friends and partners who greatly enjoy spending time with each other. We make each other laugh, cheer each other up when one of us is feeling down, and are supportive of one another in what we choose to do, both personally and professionally.

We have always wanted to be parents. Even before our marriage we discussed how we would build our family in the future. We discussed adoption right from the beginning of our relationship as well as building our family through the natural process. We have had a few failed fertility treatments and we have a very low chance of conceiving a biological child, but we have not given up hope of bringing children into our lives. We are both teachers and would love to share our lives with a child.

During our marriage we have volunteered for youth related activities, breast cancer walks, and animal causes. We are both middle school teachers so we already know how challenging the teen years can be! We have also coached various sports at the schools we teach at. We both plan on taking time off of work when we have a baby placed in our home. We will do what we can to spend as much time with our child.

Our Families...
Both of us are in close contact with our families, especially our parents. Shane’s parents live a few hours away. Yvette’s mother lives about 5 miles from us. Yvette has one sister and one brother who live in different states, and we get together with them when we can. Shane has one brother who lives a couple hours away and we see him and his fiancée often. Our parents are all looking forward to being grandparents! We definitely have the full support of our families as we go through this adoption journey.

Our child will grow up surrounded by love. Not only will our child have the love of grandparents and aunts and uncles, he or she will have a great extended family in our friends. We spend a lot of time with our close friends, camping and traveling and just spending time together. Our friends know of our intention to adopt and we know we will have their support as we become parents and raise our child. A couple of our
friends, who we travel with a lot, recently adopted a daughter and we enjoy going to visit them and their beautiful baby.

As Parents...
Our top priority as parents will be to raise our child in a way that he or she will be happy, healthy and always know he or she is loved.

We will travel a lot with our child, so he or she will be exposed to a lot of different people, places and ideas. We will go to parks, museums and other places of interest.

We enjoy playing with our friends’ kids, and we will take our children to parks, zoos, beaches and other fun places where they can learn as they explore.

We will watch them grow and encourage them as they pursue their education and other interests.

Our interests... We share a passion for Detroit sports teams, as well as a love of travel and the outdoors. We enjoy going to baseball and hockey games especially if our family or friends are with us. Yvette is a graduate of the University of Michigan, and we follow U of M and Big Ten sports and try to attend events when we get the opportunity.

We enjoy camping, either in tents or in our pop-up camper, and hiking. We try to do as much of that as we can in the summer months. We like visiting state parks in Michigan and National Parks all across the country.

We also love to travel to historic destinations, and try to soak in as much as we can in each place we visit. Since the beginning of our relationship, we have visited more than half of the states in our country and plan to visit them all. We can’t wait to share our love of travel and appreciation of life with a child!

About Our Home...
We live in a nice neighborhood in an area with a great school district. We have several parks within walking distance. Our home is a bungalow on a nice sized lot with a fenced in yard. We spend a lot of time outdoors in the warmer months and enjoy grilling and eating our meals out in the yard.

Our Pets...
Currently we share our home with four wonderful animals. We have two dogs, a beagle named Daisy and a border collie named Trapper. We also have two cats, Hermione and Radar. All of our animals are friendly and social. The kids who live across the street often come over to play with the dogs and take them for walks. The cats race the dogs to the door to meet us when we arrive home. They are our official greeters. 

Our Feelings About Adoption... We believe that adoption is a beautiful way to build a family. We know it is not an easy decision, and we respect you and admire your courage in making this choice for yourself and your child. We would love to meet you and discuss your hopes and dreams for your child. We would also like for you to get to know us, so you know who we are as well.

We will be honest and open with our child about their adoption. We have already started creating a journal and scrapbook to share with him or her. We will read to our child about adoption and help him or her to understand how special they truly are. We also have friends who have adopted, so our child will not be the only person they know who is adopted.

We understand that even though you are placing your baby for adoption, you will not forget about them. If you would are willing, we will provide you with updates of your baby through letters and photographs as he or she grows.

Our Gratitude We thank you for taking the time to learn a little about us. We know that you have a lot to think about and probably have read or will read profiles from a lot of great families. We are by no means perfect people. We do argue from time to time, but we know how to compromise and we work together well. We don’t expect parenting to always be easy, but we know we have a great support system and will work together to support our child.

We are excited to share our lives with a child whom we will love, nurture and support as he or she learns and grows. We will raise our child with love and also let them know about his or her birthparents and their generous gift of love. We look forward to meeting you and know you will be in our hearts forever.

Sincerely,
Shane and Yvette


P.S. If you would like to know more about us, please Send us a message or call us at 1-888-308-6194. We'd be happy to answer any questions you may have for us.