Thank you for taking the time to look at our profile book.

We want to start out by letting you know how courageous, and brave you are! No matter what you decide, just know that we will support you, and we hope that you can find comfort in knowing we are thinking about you, and loving you with our whole hearts!

We are Curtis and Cortney

We live in a small town just south of Denver, Colorado, and we have 5 wonderful kids. They came to us through both birth, and adoption, and they are our entire world!

We’ve always wanted a big family, we love every minute of this crazy, beautiful life, but we feel like someone  special is missing. So we are hoping that the incredible thing that is adoption will lead us to our missing piece.

Welcome to a glimpse of who we are.

Dear Expectant Family,

First, we just wanted to wish you the very best as you make this very important decision in your life, with whatever you chose. It will be what it right for you and your child. We hope you will find the peace and assurance you need as you make these difficult choices for you and your baby. We also want to thank you for taking the time to get to know our little family.

Adoption has changed our lives so much and we are so happy that there are wonderful people out there who are willing to explore adoption. We have so much love and respect for those expectant mothers and their birth families. Here is just a little fun fact about both our families, they have both been touched tremendously through the power of adoption. Tyler and his two siblings are adopted from different families, Heather’s sister is also adopted, and our little Nathan is adopted. We feel we will be able to help this child understand and know the love you had for them and why you made this hard decision.

You are probably thinking to yourself, they already have three kids, why would they do adoption now? Well, even before we were married, we knew that adoption would someday come into play and was something we knew we both wanted to do. We fill that our family is not complete, and our final piece is waiting for us. When we talked about having kids, we knew in our hearts that we were to have 4 kids, and adoption was going to be a part of building our family.

In August of 2013, after a year and a half of fertility meds we were lucky enough to add Kyle to our family. He is such a joy and full of life. Not long after that, in November of 2013 we found out we were pregnant again.  In August of 2014 We added Samantha (Sami) to our family. She is a spitfire and full of life.  2018 hit and we knew out family was not complete… after not being able to have a successful pregnancy, we knew adoption was where we needed to head. In January of 2019 Nathan was placed into our family. Which leads us to know, after more miscarriages we knew our final piece was going to come to us through adoption again and we could not be happier!

Lastly, we want you to know that we cannot even comprehend the emotions and challenges that you are facing, but we want you to know that we are there for you and we love you. We want you to know that although we have never met, we pray for you daily, and are here for you during this time. We have so much respect for all you are trying to do in your life and for considering adoption as a parenting choice for your baby. Our Promise: We promise to love her every day! She will always know about you; we will not forget you. We will provide her with a safe life filled with love. We will provide her with as many opportunities as we possibly can. Our home will be filled with love and laughter. We will always be there for her.

With all our love,

Tyler, Heather, Kyle, Sami, and Nate

Here are some fun Quick Facts about us-

1) We love to Travel! Oregon is our go-to destination.

2) We love the outdoors, especially camping

3) We have three pets- 2 dogs and a cat

4) We love movie nights downstairs where we can cuddle on our big couch.

5) We love homemade pizza night. Sausage is our Favorite!

6) We live right next to a park and spend as much time there as we can

7) We have been married for almost 10 years.

8) Kyle and Sami are Irish Twins; they are 11 months apart.

9) Family is everything to us!

10) We love family traditions, and we are always adding new ones.

11)Heather is a school counselor at a high school and loves it.

12)Tyler is a test tech working with the computer panels of x-rays.

13)Kyle is in 1st grade and loves math.

14)Sami is in Kindergarten and is learning to read.

15)Nate is a busy toddler who loves to explore.

HI THERE!

Thank you for taking the time to look through our profile! This can’t be an easy experience, but we hope you’ll feel like you get a chance to know us and our heart for you in these pages. It’s our prayer that you feel a peace as you make this difficult decision for your baby and for your future. We are praying for you!

We are Nick and Amber from Indiana. We have been married five years and currently live overseas. We are so excited to welcome a little one into our family.

CHOOSING ADOPTION

We’ve always known we wanted to adopt. Our faith leads us to love one another and care for each other. We feel this is God’s timing to pursue an adoption. It’s our prayer that we can provide a safe, loving, home for a child.

THIS TAKES BRAVERY

Although we don’t know you, we are just grateful for your bravery as you sit right here. We can’t imagine the emotions you’re feeling, but we are praying fervently for you through this difficult time. It takes a lot of love and courage to choose life and let someone else be a part of your child’s future. We want the very best for you and your baby and pray that God can direct you and give you great peace in this decision.

FAITH & FAMILY VALUES

We have a committed faith and have spent much of our adult lives in ministry work in different forms both domestically and internationally. Our faith is central to our marriage and is an important part of how we will raise our children.

This means being a part of a community (church and close friends) who can support our family, raising our children to love others. We have felt such love and support from our faith community and believe this is a wonderful way to build relationships, have positive influences in life and have peace in our journey.

LIVING OVERSEAS

We moved right along the beautiful Mediterranean coast to serve cross-cultural workers from around the world. We live in a modern, safe city with great medical care, a large international community and plenty of amazing opportunities for everything from education to cultural experiences.

Growing our family while living overseas is something we are looking forward to. We believe this can be an amazing place for a child to grow up bi-lingual and with the chance to explore the world. We hope it can help them become well-rounded, healthy, God-honoring individuals.

FAMILY

We are close with both of our families and love spending time with them. We both have two siblings and five nieces total that we adore! We keep closely connected to our families and talk regularly with them when we aren’t close by. Our extended family has been a great gift to us. They are supportive of our choice to adopt and will be a wonderful part of a child’s life!

HOME IN INDIANA

We live with Nick’s mom currently when we are in the States. She has a beautiful home with a nursery and host of fun kids toys for the grandkids! We share some space but have our own family space as well.

HOME IN EURASIA

We live in a coastal city on the Mediterranean Sea through most of the year. We typically will travel back to Indiana once a year for a month at a time. This allows us to enjoy time with family and friends while still continuing our life-giving work abroad.

We believe we can offer a child some unique blessings in a life overseas and hope you’ll see that this is a safe, beautiful place. This culture LOVES children and is very welcoming to them in all areas. We will have much support from co-workers and our church community in this city too.

AS YOU MAKE THIS DECISION

We don’t know you, but we believe God is right here beside you as you look through these pages. We hope and pray that He leads you as you make these hard decisions for the future of your child. We ache with you on this difficult journey and hope you feel great peace as you decide who will become parents to your baby. This child is known and loved by our Father and so many others who are coming alongside you now. We hope you feel that.

We pray that you would just feel God’s love in your life. This decision is not the end of your story, but just a piece. We hope you can find hope in this step and courage for what comes in life. We are certainly applauding your bravery and courage right now. May He guide your next step.

Dear Friend,

Thank you so much for taking the time to get to know a bit about me and the life and family I would love to share with a child! I promise to provide your child with unconditional love, warmth, opportunity, and a supportive environment. I am committed to open adoption and to making sure that being adopted is always a point of pride.

Your strength and courage as you explore your options and make an adoption plan are truly inspiring. My hope is that you will feel loved, appreciated, and supported along your adoption journey. You and your child are in my prayers and in my heart every day!

About Me
Being a mom is my life’s dream! I love children and my friends call me “the baby whisperer” – getting babies to calm down and fall asleep is one of my superpowers. As a teenager, I babysat dozens of kids in my neighborhood, and as a young adult I worked in a preschool and as a substitute teacher in public schools. After high school, I graduated from college and began my career, which has taken me around the world, and I’ve always sought out opportunities to volunteer with young kids in the countries I’ve lived in. My road to motherhood has been a long and winding one, but it has made me so very committed to adoption and to sharing my heart and home with a child.

Interests and Hobbies
Travel and adventure are two of my passions. I’ve had the travel bug for as long as I can remember! As a kid, my family and I did a road trip every summer, and my parents gave my brother and me a sense of adventure, curiosity, and appreciation for other cultures. As an adult, I’ve lived in Europe, South America, and South Asia, and I’m always planning my next trip. It’s very important to me to provide a child with as many of these opportunities as possible and to encourage his or her imagination and desire to learn about other cultures.

I love staying active and spending time outside. Going for a run is a form of “church” for me – I love spending weekend mornings jogging along my favorite trail, clearing my head and reflecting on the week. (It also helps counteract one of my other favorite hobbies – baking! Chocolate chip cookies are my specialty.) Staying healthy – both mentally and physically – is a huge priority for me.

My Support System
I come from a loving family that means the world to me. They all can’t wait to have another member of the family to share their love with – particularly my parents, who are incredible grandparents! I had a warm, supportive, and loving childhood, thanks to them, and I know Nana and Granddad are so excited to spoil and dote on a new grandchild. My parents and I have a very strong bond and we see each other several times per month. I have one brother and we are incredibly close. We share a love of international relations and politics, and although we live a few hundred miles apart, we talk several times a day. He is an excellent role model, and his daughter, my niece, is my favorite person in the world. Seeing her grow up has been such a joy. She can’t wait to have a cousin!

My extended family is very large and includes several members who joined our family through adoption. My aunts, uncles, and cousins are very encouraging of my path to motherhood, and they are always asking for updates on the adoption process. Your child already has a huge group of supporters who will always have his or her back!

I am blessed with a global network of dear friends – from high school, college, and every city I’ve ever lived in. Whether by catching up over FaceTime, checking out a new bakery, going for a run, or chatting around a firepit in the backyard, I make it a priority to maintain strong connections with them. My friends have been so supportive of my desire to be a mom, and I am godmother to two of their children.

My Promise to a Child
As you consider the best placement for your child, I want to share my promise to him or her – and to you:
• I promise to always provide a safe and nurturing home, full of love, laughter, and room to learn and grow.
• I promise to always remind him or her how very loved and important they are to me.
• I promise I will surround him or her with strong, positive role models.
• I promise that together we will learn about the world and be surrounded by diverse people of various backgrounds, cultures, and socioeconomic statuses.
• I promise that I will always take time to read, and play, and be creative with him or her.
• I promise to provide a healthy and active lifestyle with nutritious food and healthful habits.
• I promise to make his or her self-esteem and self-worth my most important priorities.
• I promise to take joy in their adventures and be there to help them up whenever they might fall.
• I promise to instill a strong moral compass and to teach him or her to live by the Golden Rule.
My goal is to make the world a better place, especially for those I love, and I am committed to making a wonderful life for a child. I promise to always treat you and your child with the abundant love I received from my family. I cannot imagine the strength and courage it has taken for you to get to the point of considering an adoption plan. No one can truly understand what you are going through, but I hope you feel the love and appreciation that you deserve. Thank you for considering me to be part of your adoption plan!

I wish you all the best in the world, now and in the future!

With love,
Katie

Dear Friend,

First, we want to thank you for considering us as prospective parents for your child. It’s an incredibly brave choice that you have made to place your child. Our prayers of comfort are with you as you continue this process. We want you to know that our desire is to provide a loving, safe, and nurturing environment where your child can grow to their full potential. Thank you for considering our family for your beautiful child.

Mitch and Stacie

We are Mitch and Stacie and have been married for 13 years.  We both grew up in large families and have enjoyed having siblings as our best friends. However, we are unable to grow our family ourselves. We cherish the atmosphere that adoption gives. We openly embrace new cultures and individuals into our lives, and look forward to meeting you!  We are faithful Christians and rely heavily on prayer, which led us to this decision.

As a family, we love being together and exploring new things. Our best days are found at the lake, beach, or in the mountains. Our day to day activities include school, sports, dance, and music lessons! We live in a quiet cul-de-sac that is bursting with kids. The schools surrounding us are some of the best in the state! We feel blessed to be part of our wonderful community.

The Kids

We currently have 4 kids: Ellie, Max, Pyper, and Oliver. Each child is different and came with unique gifts and abilities. We cherish their differences and do our best to magnify their strengths.  They are very inclusive and are constantly bringing new friends home.  As siblings, they are each other’s best friends.  They protect and watch out for each other at school. If one is crying, they make an effort to cheer each other up. They are excited to have a new baby in the house and there is nothing sweeter than hearing them pray for their new sibling, wherever they may be.

Thank you for taking the time to consider our home for your adoption. We recognize that this is a very personal decision and a difficult one to make. We are hoping that through open adoption we can provide a loving and healthy environment for your child.

Sincerely yours, Stacie and Mitch

Hello!  Our names are Heidi and Dallas. We can’t tell you how happy, excited and honestly, nervous we are about this opportunity.  We have been married for 12 years and growing our family has been a goal and a dream from the start.  Life never goes quite the way you planned, but that is not necessarily a bad thing.

There are many things that we enjoy doing and look forward to sharing with new members of our family. We both enjoy the outdoors.  This summer we have gone on many hikes and campouts with our dog. We also like to travel whenever possible.  We love playing and going on walks with our little schnauzer, Bruce.  Dallas chose the name Bruce before we even adopted our schnauzer, he wanted to name him after his favorite superhero, Batman.

We make it a priority to spend time together each day and go on dates often.  We enjoy going to musicals, plays and movies, especially the superhero movies.  We spend a lot of time at home doing puzzles and playing games and doing game nights with friends. Heidi grew up dancing and involved in cheerleading and drama club.  She still dances on a regular basis.  She has always talked about having a little dance partner because Dallas has two left feet.  She loves music and can sing the words to almost every song that comes on the radio since music is almost always playing in our home. Dallas likes to play basketball and golf and would love to have a little buddy to take out on the course.  He is a life-long Utah Jazz fan and loves to go to the games when he can.  He also needs someone to laugh at his terrible dad jokes, at least until they are old enough to realize how terrible they are.   Dallas has the guitar that his mother played for him when he was young and plans to share the joy of music with our kids.

We have spent a lot of time talking about how we will raise a child.  We are overcome with excitement when we think about the things we will get to teach, about passing on the values we feel important, and about sharing a lifetime of adventures as a new family.  Your child will be involved in every aspect of our lives.   We cannot wait to encourage creativity, faith, and individuality.  We will teach them the importance of having dreams and doing the hard work it takes to achieve those dreams.  We will teach them that there are always reasons to be happy, and joyful, and that being able to laugh and having a sense of humor will help when things don’t go the way they expect.

We can picture our family eating dinner together at the kitchen table, playing games in the yard, going on bike rides, and building pillow forts in the front room.  We can’t wait to open presents on Christmas morning, do homework at the kitchen table and bake cookies with grandma and grandpa.   Because of you these things will be possible.  Thank you for considering us to be a part of your family.

Hello! Thank you for taking the time to learn more about us! We know you are making such an important decision right now in choosing who to place your future child with. We believe that you are offering one of the greatest gifts a person can give, full of sacrifice and selflessness. We admire you for your strength and courage as you navigate this important decision. Even though we haven’t met you yet, we pray for and think of you often!

We believe in families! Both of us come from large families and we love getting together with them for Sunday dinners, birthdays, and holidays. We have three children and all five of us are eager and excited to add another little one to our bunch. We like to dance in the kitchen, play games, create things, support each other’s hobbies, and visit new places.

We find joy in our everyday, and are 100% committed to each other. We feel strongly that our family is incomplete! Kellie has health complications with pregnancy, but we have always wanted a big family. This and many other things have led us to adoption. We are eager to see how it unfolds and excited for the beauty of adoption to become part of our family’s story.

We plan for adoption to be a celebrated and comfortable topic in our home, and we hope that you will become part of our family as well! We know how important it is for a child to know who they are and to understand their heritage, and we hope for our future child to have that!

We are grateful for the sacrifices and choices you are making for your child in this important time, and know that things will work out the way they are supposed to!

With love,

Kellie and JP

Dear Birth Parent,

We’re Tim and Kaitlyn. We want to begin by thanking you for making the selfless decision to have your child be the key piece of a family formed through adoption, we cannot think of a more generous and loving thing to do.  While we hope that you pick us to love and raise your baby, we’re so impressed by the decision to engage in this process and select any family, we just wanted to say thank you.

Our Story

We lead an exciting life where our work takes us around the world, living in different cultures, moving from country to country every few years, and we are so excited about the opportunity to grow our family through adoption – sharing our love, our adventures, and our life with your child.  We’ve been married for 5 years, together as a couple for 15 years, best friends for over 20 years, and we can’t wait to welcome a baby into our family.  We are both energetic, fun loving, outgoing people.  We love exploring new places, trying new activities, sampling new foods, and meeting new friends.  For all of these reasons, we love our life that brings us to so many different places.  We both grew up in a small town in New England.  As luck would have it, Tim sat behind Kaitlyn in 7th grade English class – this would be the beginning of our story together.  We were best friends for years before we began dating our senior year of high school.  We’re fortunate that both of our immediate families live in the same hometown, so while we may travel and live around the world, we’re always excited to go home and spend time with both of our families.

We also consider ourselves so incredibly lucky that our families are actually very close with each other, to the point that they will celebrate holidays together and spend time together even when we’re not home – for example both our moms go for walks together several times a week.  Our whole family is so excited about the possibility of a new addition to it!

Meet Kaitlyn

Kaitlyn grew up with her parents and she has a much older half-sister who lived with them briefly while Kaitlyn was growing up. Kaitlyn’s sister is married and her brother-in-law has always been like a true brother to her.  They have two children and they all still live in the same hometown as Kaitlyn’s parents.  Kaitlyn has a smaller extended family, but is close with her aunt and uncle and the couple of cousins. Kaitlyn enjoys decorating and cooking, both of which allow us to frequently host friends and family in our home. Kaitlyn loves iced lattes, popcorn, brownies, shopping (including grocery shopping), and she loves Target! Her favorite holiday is the 4^th of July but her favorite season is the fall. She loves the weather during that time of year, the colors, and the food!

Meet Tim

Tim grew up with his parents and younger sister.  They’re both retired and live in the same home that Tim grew up in.  Tim’s sister lives a couple hours away from their parents.  While his extended family is now a bit dispersed around the east coast, Tim fondly remembers going to family picnics and parties with aunts and uncles, and lots of cousins, which we hope to be able to have again with our new addition to the family.  Tim loves movie nights, any dessert- he definitely has a sweet tooth – and reading! He also has an interest in technology and is always up to learn a new skill! His favorite holiday is Christmas and he loves to decorate the Christmas tree. He would leave it up all year if Kaitlyn let him!

Our Hobbies and Interests

We are both avid runners and have run many community races, half marathons, and we just ran our first full marathon this past spring.  We love almost all outdoor activities ranging from hiking, to scuba diving, to skiing, to golfing.  Golf in particular is an interest we share with our families and we go golfing with our fathers whenever we’re home.  Ultimately, we love spending time with friends and family, and will take any excuse to get together, share a meal (pizza is both of our favorite foods) and a laugh, and just enjoy the company of those we love.

Views on Adoption

Adoption has been a part of our discussions around building our family for several years now. We know that your child will fit seamlessly into our family.   We intend to ensure they know their whole story, sharing all of the age appropriate details of their adoption with them as they grow and develop.  We’ll want them know how lucky they are that they have many people who love them, including both of us and their birth mother, and she loved them so much that she made the ultimate self-less act to help us form our family.

Our Values

We’ll always put the interests of your child first, helping them to explore and dream big, pursue their passions and achieve their goals.  Our biggest goal will be for them to be happy, and to raise them to be kind and caring people.  We hope to pass on core values of kindness, honesty, loyalty, and integrity.  We were fortunate that our families’ emphasized education and encouraged us to participate in activities including sports, dance, musical instruments, art classes, and we cannot wait to expose your child to all of those experiences as well to help them develop creativity, teamwork, and leadership skills.  We value education and will encourage them to always do their best, simultaneously giving them every opportunity we can, but at the end of the day our goals for your child will be for them to have a happy, healthy, and fulfilling life.

To Close

We want to thank you for your time and for considering us as prospective adoptive parents for your child.  We admire your strength and your altruistic decision to help a family be created through adoption. We wish you all the best in your pregnancy and all of your future endeavors. Thank you again for considering us, we would be forever grateful if given the chance to bring your child into our family.