Dear Friends,

Let us first express our love to all birthparents reading this. We have developed a respect and love for you far greater that words can describe. It is amazing to us how one can love a child so much, to allow the best life for them to be through adoption.

Paula’s life motto (if you will) is, “My greatest desire, became my greatest challenge, which ultimately is my greatest blessing.” Our lives have been blessed through adoption once before. We have learned so much from our experience; about unconditional love, pure charity and the value of an eternal family, extended family and community.

The purpose of this blog is to share with you our story, and our desire to adopt again. Our hope and prayer is that many of you reading this will pass on our story, so as to help us bring more children into our family. Read our story, view our pictures and pass it on. With Kya, many of you received a Christmas letter expressing our desire to become parents…this is our “Christmas Letter”. This letter comes as a bit of a challenge. Our prayer is that it is received in the spirit it is intended; to show our gratitude and wishes.

Carl and I have been married almost seven years now and we have grown in many ways through our lives together. The majority of our experiences being uplifting and joyful; while other trials, always ending as a blessing. We love to take trips together, play games, watch movies, camp, be outdoors and explore each other's crafty talents. Carl is extremely talented in sports and hunting, his true passion. Paula loves to decorate and capture memories for our family and others’ through her passion of photography. How can we sum up our lives in so few words...…guided, blessed, and one crazy ride.

In the words of another mother,
“ Being a mother is more than a phase in my life; for me, it's a never-ending mission, my calling here on earth. And when the time comes and I'm standing before my Heavenly Father, I just want Him to say to me, "Job well done."

Family is the most important thing to us and we both enjoy a great challenge. Although it would be unfair to claim our daughter as a challenge, she really is an angel; parenting is a challenge in and of itself. We are constantly learning how to be the best parents for our children and with that comes new knowledge everyday. What a joy it is to learn life’s greatest lessons from a child. Next to our Savior, our greatest teacher speaks gibberish. With near perfect annunciation, she teaches with each word she speaks.

What more can we say, than to ask that you share this blog with your family, your friends, collegues and aquaintences, that in turn they will share with their loved ones, and so on. In hopes that our birthparents will find us and fall in love with us, as we know we will with them. We ask for your thoughts and prayers as we begin a new adventure, that we feel will be as fun a ride as the last adventure.

“To live would be an awfully great adventure” -peter pan

This blog and its comments are protected and will only be published at the discretion of the authors (us). Please feel free to comment as you feel inspired, only we will see them. If you feel more comfortable emailing us, please do. Our adoption email is carl.paula@yahoo.com. We look forward to hearing from many of you and of course meeting many more.

With Love,

Carl and Paula and Kya