Dear Birth Parents,
We would first like to thank you
for the decision you have made. We
can’t even begin to understand what this decision process has been like for you.
We can’t express how much we respect you for choosing to help our family or
another family by supporting adoption.
It really makes us grateful to know there are people who care enough for
the baby they created to share it with another family. You are very special in our minds. We hope that you are blessed in the endeavors
that you are faced with and that you can be blessed during this decision making
process.
We are both from the same small
town and grew up in the LDS faith. Our
faith is a big part of who we are and the way that we are raising our daughter
and future children. It is great to be
able to go to church with our family on Sundays and learn more about Jesus, and
things we can do to be closer to him and strengthen our family. It is also great to have a church family that
is always willing to lend a hand when needed. Our own family is very important
to us and we are so grateful that we live close enough to family that we get to
spend time with them. Family dinners and
other occasion are a common occurrence where we can enjoy one another and the
cousins get to play together.
Darcie:
Our greatest desire
is to be able to bring another life into our home and our family. To be able to
experience the wonderful joy and trials that comes when raising children. To grow with our children, and learn as much
from a sweet child as it will learn from us. Our daughter Callie is always
asking when she is going to get a brother or sister, it breaks my heart that we
can’t give her the friend she so badly wants to have.
Brandon and I
have never had a hard time getting pregnant.
In fact I love being pregnant more than anything. I have been pregnant eight times but we have
only been able to get one baby here, our miracle that Heavenly Father blessed
us with. The other pregnancies resulted in five miscarriages and three still
born babies; James and then twin girls Chloe and Sophie. My body doesn’t allow the nutrients that I
take in to get to the babies. After all
the heartache and doctors telling us there isn’t much we can do, we have turned
to you for hope that you can help us add to our family.
Through these experiences we have felt
our Heavenly Fathers love for us. We do
not understand why we have been chosen to have these trials, and at times we have
been very angry, but we know that we have grown from these trials and have made
it through them with our Heavenly Father’s help. We don’t know exactly what happens in the
next life but we are hoping and looking forward to raising those babies we have
lost in the next life.
We are so grateful for our daughter
Callie, she makes every day a delight.
We want so much for her to have a brother to tease and protect her, or a
sister to be her best friend. Every
night before bed we kneel with Callie to say prayers and for several years now
she has been asking us for a brother or sister, so we have started including
that in our prayers. Callie is six, she
loves to dress up, dance, sing, and play with toys. She has developed a great love for music in
the last couple of years, so much so that she got a small mp3 player for her
birthday. She is always listening and
singing along to her favorites, especially Justin Bieber whom she has the
cutest crush on. She loves to be outside riding her bike, playing on the swings
and slide, flying kites, she also enjoys swimming or playing in the water,
bowling, and playing with her cousins.
She is also very excited to start Ballet in the fall!
Brandon has a construction
management degree that he received from BYU-Idaho. He is a hard worker and prefers working with
his hands building rather than sitting behind a desk. He is always fixing
things at the house or adding new things and loves small projects. Brandon loves to spend time with his
family. Family means everything to
him. He enjoys going camping, hunting,
golfing, riding ATV’s, and just loves the outdoors. He is
a wonderful husband and father to Callie and me. He is my rock and my best friend. I am truly
grateful for everything he does to provide and protect us.
Brandon:
Darcie is the love of my life and I
can’t imagine my life without her. We
met in high school and even though we never dated much I always had a crush on
her. After high school I left home to
serve a mission for the LDS church, we wrote throughout my mission, after I
returned home we dated and were soon married.
Darcie loves to read, blog, sew, and take bike rides with the
family. She recently started making hair
bows for Callie and is amazing at it. Darcie loves to sing; she is always
singing along to the radio and sings in church quite often. I can tell already that Callie shares her
moms love for music, many times I will come home and they are both singing along
with the radio or just singing a song together.
Darcie went to a medical and dental
health school after high school and became a certified dental assistant. She worked and helped support the family
while I was going through college but is now a stay at home mom. She loves to spend her day with Callie and
has a close bond with her. She loves
having a little girl that she can dress up and do her hair in different designs.
She is really amazing at it, so many
cute hairstyles that amaze me. I tried
to do Callie’s hair once, just once. All
I tried was pigtails, and it was a disaster.
One pig tail was really high and the other low and they weren’t tight at
all. Darcie just laughed and laughed,
then fixed them. I think her biggest
hope in life is that Callie will be her best friend as she continues to grow up
just like Darcie is best friends with her mom.
Darcie loves her mom; she loves to spend time with her and talks to her
almost every day. Our parents both live
about an hour away so we get to see them frequently and they can’t get enough
of Callie.
Darcie is a good mother, she laughs
when I say she is patient because she doesn’t feel like she is, but I know
better. To stay at home all day long
with children is very challenging to say the least, I only have to do it once
in awhile and that’s enough to stress me out.
She is so amazing with Callie and loves kids. I’m amazed at the strength she has shown
through all our pregnancy trials. There
have been many tear-filled nights, and it would have been easy for her to turn
bitter, but it hasn’t shaken her faith one bit.
She is still the loving, caring, supportive, faithful person that I
married.
Darcie is a great mother for Callie
and would be for your baby also. I would
be the best father I could be and would love your child as my own. My most favorite thing in the world is to get
a big hug from Callie. It makes a bad
day good and a good day better. I want
more kids to share those hugs with. I
want to take them on camping trips and spend time as a family. I want to teach them all that I know and help
them grow mentally and spiritually.
Please
consider us as you make this ever so important decision. May Heavenly Father bless you for your
decision to help another family. You and
all mothers going through this will be in our prayers.
Thank You
Brandon and Darcie
