The following is a letter to interested birth parents:
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Hello,
Thank you for taking the time to consider us. We are Miriam and Marty. We have been married since 1995 and have dreamed of having children since we started dating. We met at a local LDS singles ward in Denver and were friends before the first date. We were in the same stake for many years without knowing each other. We met shortly after Marty returned home from his mission in Louisiana. We got to know each other as friends by attending weekly activities and church meetings. However, we didn’t pursue a romantic relationship until a fateful church dance that helped us see how we belonged together. Ever since that dance we have been inseparable.
We love spending time together. We have fun going geocacheing, collecting rocks and fossils, going for rides together in the mountains and D.J.ing weddings and dances. We love to go on adventures and find new places and things to see. We love music, telling stories and having fun just hanging out with our families.
We both were raised in the LDS Church and have strong testimonies of the gospel. We are both the oldest children in each of our families and have been natural born leaders since birth. Our families regularly look to us for help particularly in planning family events and dealing with family relationships. We love our families and always spend a lot of time laughing with them. Although we love spending time together and with family we have always felt an emptiness without children to share our lives with.
We feel that parents are the most influential people in a child’s life. We feel that we are ready to be positive and supportive parents. We believe strongly in education and self-sufficiency. We enjoy learning; we like to learn how to do things for ourselves. We hope to impart this love of learning with our children. What you learn in this life is what you take with you in the next life.
Let us tell you a little more about each of us:First Miriam; she is the love of my life and is a special person who has the heart of a saint. Miriam is a “military brat”; so she has lived many places including Japan. When she was a little girl in Japan she was spotted while shopping with her parents and was asked to be in a department store ad for clothing. She looked so cute just like a little doll in her “big girl clothes”.
Miriam’s family has always been an advocate for education. Even at a young age she has enjoyed teaching; when Miriam was a little girl she figured out that she could charge her siblings to teach them the alphabet. She charged a penny per letter.
Miriam has a knack with being creative and doing crafts; she picked up a book from the library and taught herself to knit from reading the book. She is one of the craftiest people I know; she does all kinds of needle arts, leather work, wood working, and many other crafts.
Miriam has always been a good judge of character and finds the best in all people. Miriam possesses a huge amount of faith; this being evident in the fact that she is the first person to say “did you pray about that” when facing an obstacle.
Miriam works with children all day at a large elementary school, and knows each and every one of the children by name. When we are out and about children will run up to her and start telling her stuff and pointing out their parents. Miriam is involved in their little lives so much that she knows what is going on with each of them. Miriam is always first to offer help to the children both in and out of the school environment. Miriam is patient, kind, loving, and best yet very beautiful.
Marty makes me laugh. He is an awesome story teller. He is a great husband and will be a great father. He loves children; he loves everything about them. Marty is a very caring person who 99% of the time is worried about everyone else.
He is a very hard worker who can accomplish anything he puts his heart into. Marty was repeatedly told in his early education that he would not be able to receive a college education due to a learning disability. He wanted to attend college and receive a degree but he didn’t know what type of learning disability he had or how to overcome his learning disability. He decided to attend college and finally was able to be tested in his senior year and found out that he has dyslexia. Moreover, the learning disability department also told Marty that he had already figured out and was using all the learning strategies they would have helped him learn. Marty persevered even though others thought he should give up. In 2009, Marty received a Bachelor’s Degree in communication from the University of Colorado at Denver.
He dreams of being on the radio one day.Marty served an honorable mission in the Louisiana Baton Rouge Mission. He has many good stories to tell about all the crazy things that he saw and did during his mission including cleaning up after Hurricane Andrew.
Marty went to clown college when he was younger and loves to do magic for his friends and others.
Marty is an Eagle Scout and a Congressional Medal award winner and loves to help everyone he can. He is also concerned with preparedness and works hard to ensure that our family is physically and spiritually prepared for anything.
Marty loves to spoil his nieces and nephew, with the goal to make him the best uncle that they have. He is serving as the first assistant in the High Priests group in our ward and loves to help all the members with their needs.
Our dreams of the future include living in a small town where we can own a plot of land that our children can run around on. Miriam wants to be a stay at home mother. We feel that having a mother in the home is vital to a child’s development. We both hope to eventually adopt at least two children.
Again, thank you for taking the time to read about us. We are anxious to meet you and get to know you. We will be eternally grateful to the birth parents of our children. The gift that the birth parents of our children provide will be a gift of eternal happiness.Thank You,
Miriam and Marty