Bryan and Elizabeth

You are truly incredible. The bravery of making a heart-breaking decision of choosing adoption for your own child is outstanding. I can’t image the difficulty and heartache that you have or are experiencing but know that I have been praying for you already and already think the world of you, even if we haven’t met. It is truly a privilege to be a father and please know, if it is the Lord’s will that you would decide to make an adoption plan with me as the adoptive father, that I will love your child with all of my heart for the rest of my life. I promise to raise your child to know and walk with the Lord, to be kind to others and laugh a lot. I promise to honor you in the conversations I have with your child and to raise your child knowing that you loved them so much to make this decision. I can’t say that I’ll ever truly know how it feels to be in your shoes, but please know that I think you are simply amazing, brave and that I have the most respect for you.   Sincerely, Bryan

To our child's loving and brave biological parent(s) - we have so much love for you, and we know how valuable and precious it would be to for your/our child and our whole family to have the gift of getting to know you. If at any point you feel comfortable and ready to get to know our family, we would love the opportunity to get to know you. You will hold a special and irreplaceable place in your child's heart, and we would love for them to get to know you and be able to see the parts of them that are a reflection of you.  Sincerely, Elizabeth

One of my greatest joys in life is helping others. The Lord has given me this gift of service and I feel so privileged to utilize this everyday in my work as a family medicine physician assistant. love helping my friends and family and am always willing to go great lengths to help those around me. I would also describe myself as pretty silly. I am definitely introverted but when I’m around people I love and know I love laughing, being silly, and making terrible dad jokes. Some of my sweetest memories are with my wife and kids laughing together.

I just love my family. I take being a father and husband very seriously and one important piece to these roles is giving time to this. I love spending quality time with my wife and kids, doing things as a family and relying on the Lord for strength to best lead my family spiritually to walk with the Lord closer each and every day. ~Bryan

Things I Love About My Husband by Elizabeth:

1. How kind to everybody he is! He never judges or discriminates, and is such a kind and approachable person.
2. His giving and selfless way he approaches the world. He willingly gives of himself, his time and his money to help other people.
3. How I know without a shadow of a doubt how much he loves me and is committed to our marriage.
4. His love for the Lord and his commitment to pursuing the Lord and spending time in his Bible.
5. How great of a Dad he is! It is such a joy to watch him be the amazing Dad I always knew he would be.
6. How constant and steady he is, he is good at bringing a sense of calm to even stressful situations.
7. That he is still and will always be my best friend! It is so much fun getting to be married to my best friend.
8. He is so great at his job, it is a gift to our community that he is the compassionate healthcare provider that he is.
9. How disciplined he is in the things he chooses to commit to.
10. His sense of humor, he always knows how to make me laugh.

Elizabeth is genuinely the most caring person I have met in my life. Elizabeth loves and cares for others with her utmost being, it is how she was created and it is simply amazing to see each and every day. Elizabeth loves the Lord, and it is truly her identity to be in Christ.  I love how she pursues the Lord each and every day. Elizabeth is the most amazing mother. The way she nurtures and loves our 2 boys is one of my favorite things to see in my life. Elizabeth is silly. Her and I love to laugh and be ridiculous, it is one of the most defining pieces to our marriage is being silly together and laughing a lot. Elizabeth is also profoundly empathetic. Her mind and thoughts are always about others and is such an awesome example of Christ being loving and others focused.
Elizabeth is incredibly talented. She has the most beautiful singing voice; she has sung her entire life and some of my most heartful moments in worship have been when my wife is singing. Elizabeth is also adventurous, she is a great partner to be outdoors, camp, hike and explore together. Elizabeth loves me so well. I have never once doubted how much she loves me because of how diligent she is in showing her love to me. Elizabeth is also the toughest person I’ve ever known. She has shown such immense resiliency through many significant physical and emotional challenges in her life. Elizabeth is also such a family person. She grew up in a huge loving family and she loves being with our family as much as possible but also craves and loves being together with her family. 

Hi, I’m Elizabeth: 

1. I am outgoing and am inclined toward empathy and making sure those around me feel valued, important and cared for.
2. I am a personal trainer and work in chronic disease prevention and I absolutely love what I do. I love having the opportunity to help others improve their well-being and health.
3. One of my most favorite things to do is to run, especially when the sun is shining! Running helps me clear my mind, I enjoy all the different things I get to see when I am running, and I get great praying time in when I run.
4. I have loved caring for babies as far back as I can remember, of my 7 siblings, three of them are younger than me and I always loved to snuggle with them and help my mom take care of them. I have always desired to be a mom and am so deeply thankful that I get to be one.                                                                                                                                                       5. ‏I really enjoy traveling! Seeing new places, exploring different cultures, eating new and delicious foods and being on a new adventure with my family is so enjoyable to me!
6. I majored in health promotion and wellness in college and am passionate about living a healthy and balanced lifestyle.
7. I am extroverted and am energized by spending time with my friends. Bryan and I try to be intentional with looking at the calendar and trying to make sure I have time carved out to spend with my friends as we know how restoring and important that is for me. 

We have two children: Jacob (age 6) and Oakley (age 4). We are parents to an amazing little boy that his birth Mom chose to lovingly place in our family through adoption, and we talk about her often with love and respect. And we want you to know that we would give you the same honor and respect should you choose an adoption plan. Your child would know without a doubt how loving and wonderful you are, and that the decision you made was based on how much love you have for them, that you would do whatever it takes to make sure they are loved and protected.

To our child's loving and brave biological parent(s) - we have so much love for you, and we know how valuable and precious it would be to for your/our child and our whole family to have the gift of getting to know you. We respect that your journey of healing after placement is complicated and will ebb and flow, so we want to hold however much space you need to heal and process. But if at any point you feel comfortable and ready to get to know our family, we would love the opportunity to get to know you and to love on you. Though you have chosen us to parent and be your child's family, we acknowledge that you hold a special and irreplaceable place in your child's heart, and we would love for them to get to know you and be able to see the parts of them that are a reflection of you.

Sincerely, Bryan and Elizabeth