kidsr2funDearBirthparents

We are very excited about adopting another child. We have been married for 19 years. We have 9 children. Three of them have been adopted from India and one from California. When we sit down to dinner or family prayer at night, we keep looking around and waiting for the child that hasn‘t shown up. Even the children feel like someone else belongs here that isn’t in our family yet. We have a stable, loving home and would love to have another child join our family. We love to be surrounded by children, family and friends, and anxiously await the arrival of another sweet spirit into our family.

Why are we adopting? We haven’t been able to get pregnant since a miscarriage about 6 years ago. We have prayerfully decided adoption is what we want and need to do. We feel that adopting is a family thing and affects everyone in our family, and you aren‘t just choosing parents, but the whole family. If you haven’t had a chance to read through and meet everyone on Our Family page, that’s where to go to meet all the kids.

Kevin graduated from the University of Wyoming in 1988 in Electrical Engineering. Pam went to college for a while until Devon was born. Kevin now works as a Senior Design Engineer and does consulting on the side. Kevin speaks fluent Spanish. We have a couple small businesses we run out of our home. Our goal is to be able to support our family on solely those incomes in the next 2 years so Kevin can be home with the family a lot more! We have business in Mexico, Venezuela and India, and throughout the U.S. Some of the trips we have taken as a family were for business trips, but we decided to take the family along and make it a lot more fun for everyone!

Pam enjoys being home with the kids, sewing, quilting, reading, crafts and ceramics. Pam’s extended family all lives within an hour of our home. We all enjoy spending time building strong family relationships! Pam’s parents adopted 3 children from India when Pam was in high school. Kevin's mom lives here, but all the rest of his family live out of state, so we travel every so often to visit them.

We are very active in our church. We enjoy participating and serving in the activities and organizations there. The things we like to do as a family are camping, fishing, hiking, playing games, going through new homes being built, biking, reading and listening to books on tape, and working (and playing) on computers. We think education is important, not just formal education, but learning about the world and how it works, and especially learning about people and how best to help others and get along.

We have 3 cats, Spike,Kia and Simba. We live on almost an acre so we can have lots of play space for the children and animals.

Our family has both adopted and biological children. Nattely, Janae & Zachary are from India and are siblings. Even though it would be considered a closed adoption, they have a picture of their birthmother and remember things about her, as they were older when they were adopted. Their birthmother doesn’t really have a home, so there isn’t much of a way to have contact. The orphanage there that they came from has occasional contact with her. They also have another biological brother that lives about a half hour from our home that was adopted as an infant, and they have continued contact with him. Kind of an interesting situation—kind of semi-open would be the closest definition? Ammon's adoption was through the state of California and his birth family hasn't had contact with him since his birth. For our next adoption, we are interested in an open or semi-open adoption. We feel like contact with birthmoms is healthy for everyone.

As a family, we feel there are many benefits to having a big family. There’s rarely a time when you don’t’ have someone around to talk to or play with! We have a volleyball area in the backyard and we don’t need anyone else around to have a game! We have the good ole’ sibling rivalry, just like everywhere else, but they stand up for each other and help each other. It’s fun to watch them help each other with homework and “friend” problems, support each other in sports and other events, etc. A strong sense of family unity is very important to us. There are challenges to be met in scheduling and one-on-one time with each child, but we strongly feel that the benefits out-weigh the challenges! We know the decision to place a child is very difficult and overwhelming, and then the challenge to find a family!

May God bless you in your search for the right family. We are praying daily for God to bless our Birthmother and bring us together. If you have any questions, please email us!

Kevin and Pam