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David & Karisa are hopeful adoptive parents from Colorado waiting to adopt a baby.

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

Who We Are Dear Birth Parents;

Thank you for the opportunity to share our lives with you. We are aware of this important decision you are about to make and the many questions and choices you face. We would like to tell you how much we love you and pray that you may have strength and comfort in this difficult decision placed before you. We know and are grateful that you want what is best for your baby, and we hope to share with you the love, support and secure life we will give your baby.

We would like to begin by describing our relationship, to give you a better idea of the environment in our home. David and I met in college where we became friends. I loved the way we could talk for hours and not be bored. After a while, I knew that I was falling in love with him. Being somewhat stubborn, I tried to hide my feelings but I know that I did not do a very good job. We were married five months later ! We share so many hopes, dreams and goals together. We also share many differences that I know help balance our relationship. What I am lacking he makes up for and vice versa. This important part of our relationship helps us to continually grow closer together as a couple. We make each other laugh and are always there to support each other in all areas of life.

What We Do We try to always finds a way to make life fun. I love to read to the kids, we try to read a story every night, our favorite collection is called Skippy-Jon Jones, about a little cat that thinks that he is a Chiwawa . David, James and I like to run together and Adaley will ride in the stroller, I recently volunteered to coach James running club at the Elementary school it was so much fun to be able to run with him. David and I try run in at least two races each year together it is something that we love to do together. We love to play Wii together; even Adaley will grab the control and try to play with us. Our favorite is to bowl together. David and James will play baseball together and now James is winning most every game (much to David’s groans). We love to cook together; James is very involved in baking with me and sometimes helping with the cooking. Adaley gets very excited to watch when I turn on the mixer she will watch the hooks go around and loves it. We love to go out to restaurants and to the movies together. We just recently saw Madagascar 2. One of David’s favorite pastimes is to wrestle with James and Adaley when he returns home from work. They truly enjoy a lot of daddy time. I just love to watch Adaley try to pull her own weight when tackling James and Daddy. I think that she does it more for all the hugs she gets. We love to go to the mountains together in the summer and explore all the trails. Adaley loves to get in the backpack and look at everything around her; you can truly see the peace that is on her face when we are out side. James, however, is everywhere exploring and finding sticks, (he must always have a stick to hike with). He does a very good job at being the dirtiest one out of all of us. David and I enjoy watching this so much. Most of all we try to do as much as we can as a family

A Little About Us David graduated from college and was commissioned into the Army, which brought us to our home now. He now works with the Colorado Army National Guard. I am blessed to enjoy the pleasure of being at home with James and Adaley playing and learning with them constantly.
I also have my own photography business that I enjoy doing. I truly love the challenge of composing a great shot and capturing the emotion of the family and weddings that I shoot. Both Adaley and James love to have their picture taken and want to see it immediately after the shot is taken. I have caught James in my equipment, toting my tripod around and looking for pictures to take and Adaley now loves saying “cheese”!

James is a character! I do not think that I know anyone with as many facial expressions as he. He is a complete social butterfly, saying “Hi” to anyone around him. I have often seen people taking a second look around them to see who has just spoken to them, obviously not expecting the greeting from a little boy. He loves to play with his friends, He is in PM Kindergarten right now and loves his teacher Mrs. Ray. He is very musically charged and is always singing something. Both James and Adaley’s birth moms were musical. He has recently lost his first tooth. I must admit that I was not ready for that, he is growing up way too fast. He is such a treasure to us. There are so many days where David and I just stare at him in complete amazement. He is truly a wonderful miracle in our lives!

Adaley is a rare gift. She is so very quiet and somber. She is quite a lover to those that she knows but is not anything like her brother with respect to his outgoing personality. She is however watching him very carefully and I think that she prefers to study people much more than to jump out there and talk to them. She loves music, she has excellent rhythm and has “danced” in some way since she could sit up, we love to dance together as a family, and she loves to dance to all kinds of music. She even is trying to mouth the words, quite cute since she really can’t talk. I just love to watch the relationship grow between her and James, she really loves her big brother and he loves her!

David and I come from large loving families and have always looked forward to having one of our own. When we encountered our personal hurdle of infertility it presented us with a temporary set back. We then researched into adoption and found our second chance. We are blessed to live close to our extended family with David’s parents being only a few blocks away and I have two sisters and one brother here as well. Everyone in our family is very supportive and loving in our quest for a family of our own. Our families love sharing time together. We are so thankful for this opportunity to always have family around; they all are a great support to us.

We were raised in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints and embrace its teachings. Through this gospel we have spent our lives training to be parents. We love to serve and have been asked to do so often. We are so grateful for the gospel and the peace and comfort it gives us.

Thanks For Looking We truly feel that through the continuous expression of our love for each other and to our children they will always know that they are the most important people in our lives. We know that life always has its struggles, its ups and downs, but the family unit will always be there for each other and home is and will always be our safe haven away from life’s challenges. David and I share the same standards with each other and hope to be able to teach those standards to our children. We have had many learning experiences in life and have always looked forward to passing our knowledge on to our children. We both agree that knowledge is a wonderful blessing, but the most important truth we can teach them is how to love unconditionally. We want to teach them about faith, love and service. We want to help our children understand that they have a loving Heavenly Father that is concerned about them and loves them unconditionally in everything they do in life.

We will provide for and support any child we are blessed with. We want to give them every opportunity to grow and discover themselves. We want to help them make goals so they can succeed in whatever path they choose to pursue in life. We want our children to learn the importance of responsibility, work and self-discipline as well as the importance of having fun as they grow up and achieve the most from life.

We feel that although we do not have the ability to physically bring a child to this earth, Heavenly Father has found an alternative way to bring a child into our home through you. We know that you have a difficult decision to make within the next few months. We realize that you are making a sacrifice. If chosen we would like to share letters and pictures of our families early years with you.
You will always be in our hearts, though words just cannot explain the love and compassion we have for you. We hope that through our prayers you can experience the peace and comfort of Heavenly Father’s love for you. We truly look forward to the opportunity of providing this child with a fun, loving, secure, nurturing and happy home.


All our love,
David, Karisa, James & Adaley