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Greg & Marnie are hopeful adoptive parents from Texas waiting to adopt a baby.

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

Dear Birth Parent, Hi! We are Greg and Marnie and we are proud parents of a beautiful baby girl, Ava, whom we adopted in August 2010. We’d love for Ava to have a baby brother or sister to grow up with and hope that you will consider us as adoptive parents. We know this is an anxious time for you and are inspired by your courage in choosing adoption.

We wish we could find the words to convey to you our commitment to raising your child well, but we’re not sure any words alone can convey that message. The choice you’re making is a godsend to us for which we can never repay. We hope we can provide you comfort by knowing that we will cherish our child…YOUR child!

We will love them and teach them to love. We will play with them and teach them to play. We will comfort them and teach them to comfort. Thank you so much for considering us!!

About Us

As we’re writing this, we nearly feel the need to present a side of us that is more glamorous than we really are. Truth is…the two of us are not glamorous at all. We definitely would not make a good reality TV couple.

Hopefully, you recognize this as a plus. After all, we’re not auditioning for a TV spot or trying to get a date. We want to adopt a child. We’re very stable, predictable, and responsible people who…yes…still know how to have fun!!

We have been a couple for 18 years and married for the last 9! We met early on in college and both of us wanted to finish school and get our careers started before marriage. We both love our jobs. Marnie teaches speech and theater for ninth graders (dangerous work) and Greg is a Fire Captain and paramedic in suburbia (easy work).

What Greg Says About Marnie Marnie is a wonderful compliment to me! We are ridiculously compatible…and not because we’re always similar. We both enjoy separate hobbies, but we share similar views on life, family, money, politics, and religion. When we don’t agree, both of us can agree to not agree and still love each other just the same.

She is very beautiful, but that’s not why I love her. I love her because she is kind, nurturing, caring, responsible, and committed. She is a wonderful mother to Ava. She can pull belly laughs out of Ava that will light up a room. She knows all the words to the nursery rhymes that I can’t keep straight…and has such a gentle soul for soothing Ava when she’s not feeling good.

I can trust Marnie with anything. She has a great sense of humor and occasionally laughs at my jokes (which takes a strong woman)! She loves her work and goes above and beyond to reach out to her students!

She’s quiet. She’s simple. She’s secure. She doesn’t want or need to be the center of attention. She finds happiness and pleasure in life’s simple treasures. I often feel like the luckiest man in the world, because I get to see a part of Marnie’s personality that not everyone gets to see.

What Marnie Says About Greg Greg and I did not have a traditional wedding. Although it is commonly thought this is the thing that most little girls grow up dreaming about, the dream is finding someone to share your life and love with. Someone who gives you no doubt that the commitment they made to you and the love they have for you is forever.

Life is full of little doubts and disappointments, but in my marriage, words like these are foreign. I couldn’t have hoped for a better partner to have at my side. He is kind, loving, and supportive. He is strong in his faith to God, family, and myself. He makes me smile and laugh. He makes me feel safe when I need to cry. He works hard at his job that he loves and has wanted to do since his childhood. He makes me proud every day!!

I love him for these and many other qualities, but what I love most about my husband is how loved he makes me feel. Every day he tells me in words and shows me with gentle affection how important I am in his life. That is how I knew he would be a great father, and he is! Watching him fulfill that role has been an absolute joy! The smile that comes to Ava’s face when she sees her daddy says it all! He is warm, tender, and loves sharing time with his little girl. He will spend hours playing with her and watching her discover the world around her. There is no doubt Ava knows her daddy loves her! And when we are blessed with another child in our family, I know that child will feel loved themselves and be able to see and feel the love their father has for their mother, sister, and the entire family.

Ava

Our daughter’s name is Ava. We adopted her when she was 5 days old in August of 2010 and since that day our love for her has grown right along with her little Mohawk (completely natural by the way)! She is a wonderful daughter and has a magnetic attraction to other children.

We believe Ava would love a sibling. She loves to play. She loves to talk. She loves being around people, especially other kids. She has the best time at Gymboree classes with all her little friends! Ava loves to show everything she discovers and learns with those around her. Greg and I both feel that one of the best gifts we could give Ava would be a little brother or sister to teach and love.

Family Where would we be without our family? We have such a diverse group of people!! We have doctors and lawyers, computer nerds and actresses, teachers and firefighters, and…well…let’s just call some of them “free-spirits” because we haven’t figured out what it is that they do. We love them all!! It sets the stage for great family dinners and get together’s. If we all thought the same, they’d only need one of us, so we love the family interaction.

Being the diverse bunch that we are, our family is really excited about our plans to adopt another child. After all, Marnie’s mother and aunt are adoptees themselves (as well as being twins) and Greg’s sister was adopted by his father. Having them as a resource has been so valuable with Ava and I’m sure will continue to be helpful as she gets older!!

Marnie was the second born out of four girls. She grew up in a rural area with acreage and horses. She and her sisters learned how to entertain themselves out in the country and were always encouraged to use their imaginations to create games, put on skits, and just “play”.

Marnie’s family is so talented! Her mom is a singer. Two of her sisters are phenomenal singers and theater actresses. One of them has her own theater company. Marnie produces and directs high school plays. You never know when a simple family get together will break out into a Broadway musical.

Greg is the youngest of three kids. His sister was first-born to his mother and then adopted by Greg’s father. Greg also has an older brother. His family is equally great, but not near as talented (at least when it comes to singing and acting).

Greg has terrific parents. The celebrated their 40th anniversary together this past year and are VERY EXCITED to be grandparents again. Greg grew up playing sports and had many friends nearby.

Both sides of our family have fallen head-over-heels for Ava. She is so loved, adored, and spoiled by her aunts, uncles, cousins, and grandparents. She definitely steals the show wherever she goes!!

Everyone is tremendously excited about our next adoption and can’t wait to spoil the new baby! You should know that if you choose us as adoptive parents, your child isn’t just adopted by the two of us…your child becomes an equal part of our whole extended family. Your baby will be loved and cared for with all of our hearts!


Thank you for taking the time to read about us!!

We know this is a hard time for you and that you have many hard decisions to make. We are just grateful to you for considering us. Gladney has done a lot of great work in choosing who they allow to be potential adoptive parents, so I hope that you feel comfortable knowing that whomever you choose, your child will be safe and loved.

If we are chosen, we are going to be the best parents we can be. We won’t be perfect, but we’re going to try. We have a great network of family and friends to lean on. We have an extended firefighter family. We have a great church close to home.

We’re so excited to share our lives with another child. Trips to the zoo, the mountains, the ocean, the holidays, first days of school. And we’re also emotionally, physically, and financially prepared for the hard times as well…being sick, being sad, being mad, accidents, and just bad days.

In closing, we need you to know this. You will always be the birth mother of our child. We will never hide or deny that. We want to know about you, so we can tell your baby all about you. We want our child to be proud of his or her birth mom and to know the sacrifice you made.

We know that our child will always have a special place in their heart for you and we want to help them cherish that love. We want our child to know that it is normal and okay to feel that way.

Thank you again for your courage and consideration!
Greg, Marnie, and Ava