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Curtis & MaryAnn are hopeful adoptive parents from Washington 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 Thank you for taking the time to read our profile and for considering us as a potential family for your child. We realize it must have taken immense courage to decide on the gift of adoption for your baby and choosing a family for the rest of this child's life must not be any easier. Without even knowing you, we are already amazed by your level of responsibility and admire your selflessness. We hope these next words and photos offer you some comfort and direction in your decision.

Our Story We would like to share with you about our life and those who are connected to it. We have been happily married for eleven years now and have been together for a total of seventeen. We met in high school through mutual friends and the rest, as the say, is history. We unintentionally chose to both attend the same University (PLU) and spent the next four years maturing both as people and as a couple. Post graduation we decided we loved and knew each other as well as two people possibly could and were married in the fall of 1998 - six years to the day after our first date. After several years of marriage without children the timing just felt right to settle down and add some children to the mix. However, things did not go as we had imagined they would. We spent a couple of years trying to get pregnant with no success which eventually lead us down the road of fertility treatments and ultimately two rounds of unsuccessful in vitro fertilization. The whole process was emotionally draining and immensely frustrating and in the end we decided to take a break from the process and shift our attention in another direction. Our direction change culminated in the demolition of our existing house and complete reconstruction of a new house on the same lot. The construction process was a labor of love with some bumps along the way but in the end we were rewarded with a truly wonderful new home. And it was during this long construction process when we decided the adoption of a child was the right thing for us and the only real way to make our new house feel like a home.

About Us Now that you know how and why we arrived here in search of you, we thought you might also like to know just a little bit about the two of us as people. We separately wrote a little something about one another and what follows are the results:

Curtis on MaryAnn-
I have never really been the type to believe in love at first sight or in the idea of soul mates but I do believe I experienced something close to both of these things when Mary entered into my life. From the first time we met there has always been something about her which just felt right. Mary is truly one of the most sincere people I have ever met. She is quick to compliment others and has a way about her which instantly makes others feel at ease (I think it is her smile). MaryAnn has a big heart and I am personally very excited to see her share it with a child of our own.

Mary Ann on Curtis-
Curtis is my rock. He is a loving husband who is strong, supportive, caring, respectful and full of humor and life. When I am sad or exuberantly happy, there is no other person with which I want to share those moments. These characteristics fill my heart with hope and make me believe he will make an exceptional father.

Together we enjoy traveling, being outdoors, camping, the movies, watching a range of sports and spending time with family and friends. Our life lead together up to this point has been a truly blessed one but our vision of the future doesn't feel as if it could possibly be complete without the opportunity to share these adventures & everyday moments with children of our own.

In addition to the many character qualities we think we can offer to your child, we believe we also offer a stable and secure home. Mary Ann is employed by a locally owned financial institution where she has been loyally employed for over ten years. Curtis owns a small company with his parents which was established in 1990. Both of our employment situations allow for flexibility and security in raising a family. Benefits include maternity leave, paid vacation, sick time and health insurance.

Infertility has increased our appreciation for the gift of children and our desire to have a family. We promise a loving, safe and healthy environment and value adoption as a lifetime commitment. Friends, 7 god-children, 5 great-grandparents, 4 grandparents, 2 aunts, 2 uncles, 8 cousins, 1 dog (our 6 year old golden retriever Arnold) and two loving parents await your decision and the arrival of your baby.

In Conclusion Our hope and goal for this web page is to open the door to you and let you into what our life together looks like and what it offers to your baby's life. We hope you enjoy and find what you are looking for in the two of us.