Dear Birth Mother,
Thank you for reading our letter and considering us as adoptive parents for your child. We appreciate so much the gift you are considering sharing with us. We are so excited about the opportunity to finally start our family, and your amazing choice means so much to us! We can not wait to love and nurture a child by growing our family through adoption. It would be an honor for us to be selected to raise your child. We are Arthur and Leigh, and we hope this letter will give you a brief look into our lives and into our hearts. Since Arthur is adopted we believe he will be the perfect father for an adopted child.

About Us
We met through a mutual friend and have been together for six years. Three years dating and three years married. We fell in love very quickly but what has made us grow stronger is our independence as well as our passion to do things together. Both of us are big kids at heart, but each has their own personality. Leigh is the organized person who is caring, loving and always thinking ahead. Arthur is the silly person who loves to make people happy, work hard and help everyone around him. We both share a very strong set of values regarding family, ethics, spirituality and standing up for the truth. Family definitely comes first for us. We enjoy many activities together including biking, hiking, running, snorkeling, canoeing, cooking and most importantly laughing.

About Leigh
Leigh is a petite, cute fun-loving girl. She enjoys reading, gardening, yoga, and hiking. She is the middle child of three siblings having one older brother and one younger sister. Her brother is married and has two sons, ages 12 and 18. Her sister is married and has two sons, ages 6 and 9. Leigh spends as much time with all four boys as she can and never misses a ball game, birthday party, school event or any reason just to have fun with them and support what they are doing. She is also very close to her father and was extremely close to her mother who passed three years ago. Her father is a retired accountant who loves beach music and corny jokes. All of Leigh’s family live in the same area and get together often. Leigh and Arthur live in the same area where Leigh grew up so she still has friends she grew up with. After living on her own for awhile Leigh decided to attend college and earn her bachelors degree. She worked full-time and attended school full-time at night, paying her own way. Leigh had a successful Human Resources/Information Technology career with a healthcare company for 9 years. Since this career required a great deal of travel she recently left her position to prepare for being a stay-at-home mom just as her mother was to her.

About Arthur
Arthur is fun loving, full of life and deep down just a big kid at heart. Arthur loves many outdoor activities including hiking, running, swimming, mountain biking, landscaping and has even competed in many road races and triathlons. Arthur has on older sister (three years older) who he is very close to. She is married to a great guy and has two wonderful sons, ages 8 and 10. Arthur’s parents are very special people. They adopted both Arthur and his sister from different families. This is one of the special gifts that Arthur has to offer an adopted child. As a child Arthur loved spending time with his friends, participating on the swim team, playing video games and riding his bike as fast as he could. Arthur is still very close to his childhood friends who all helped us celebrate our wedding by being groomsmen. Arthur earned his bachelor of science in Marketing and uses that degree today along with a certificate in Hospitality Management to work as a Marketing Associate for a large food distributor. This career allows Arthur to work from home, schedule his own time and be free on nights and weekends.

Community and Friends
Our home is our dream-come-true. We never imagined being as lucky as we have been to live in such a great house and neighborhood. We have a four bedroom brick house, a big back yard and a play room/family room in the finished basement. We enjoy block parties for Easter, July 4th, Halloween and the annual Christmas party. All these events are surrounded around the fifteen little ones on our street. Both of us enjoy our special friendships with the classmates we grew up with and we consider them a part of our extended family. Our friends often come together for special occasions and many cookouts in the summer. They have children that range from age 4 to 3 months. Three of those children have been adopted and we feel this will help our child to bond with someone who has had a similar experience.

Vacations
We like to find a new place to travel to each year around our anniversary. So far, we have been to St. Maarten, St. Thomas, Bahamas, Vegas and Hawaii. We also spend each Memorial Day weekend with Arthur’s family for the Big Family Reunion, where there are about fifty people in attendance. This reunion allows family from all over to come together once a year. Each summer we spend time at the beach with Leigh’s Father, siblings and their families. This has been a tradition for Leigh since she was a small child. We have been waiting for a good excuse to go to Disneyland and hope to have one soon.

Adoption
Adoption has been in both are hearts for a long time. Since Arthur is adopted he is able to appreciate and understand the gift his birthmother gave him. Before Leigh ever met Arthur she had always wanted to adopt a child, this just felt right to her. When we found each other we knew that adoption would be part of our lives forever. We did try to conceive on our own for a while but we were unsuccessful. This immediately told us that our dream of adoption was what God had in store for us all along.

Our Promise to you
Please be assured that your child will know the gift that you gave them and that their adoptive father will be able to assure them of that. Also, as Arthur’s adoptive parents did for him and his adopted sister, we will never discourage them from seeking you. We promise to give your baby every opportunity to explore and achieve his/her optimal potential and to be happy doing so.

Thank you for the opportunity of getting to know us. We understand this is a difficult decision for you and encourage you to take your time in selecting the right couple.

If you would like to speak with us about adopting your child or have any questions for us, please contact one of our Adoption Advisors at AdoptHelp by calling 1-800-637-7999 toll-free.