Dear Donor Family,

First and foremost we want to let you know that we are praying for you, whoever you are! We know that infertility is not easy and whatever led you to IVF and then donation is a hard path and we are keeping you in our prayers from here on out!

Before meeting my husband I had had 2 children and was a single mom and done having children. So I had my tubes removed thinking I would never marry again and never again want another baby. Then I met my Jesus in 2023 and changed my perspective. I knew that a man who loved Jesus as much as I do is out there and I would marry him someday. April 2025 I married that man. Since then I have sincerely been praying and hoping that we would know what to do. We didn't want to do IVF because we knew that there are so many embryos waiting for life and we want to try to give life to 1-2 of them.

We are a fun Jesus loving and God fearing family and believe that a child or two would come into our family and bless us and we know that we would bless them. We volunteer at our Church in many capacities. My Husband is working toward becoming a deacon and we volunteer on the audio and visual team together. I also am on the Women's ministry team as Childcare coordinator and Cohospitality coordinator. We attend almost any bible study and event our church hosts faithfully. This includes a Thursday night Women's Bible study(which I attend every other week, and do childcare for the bible study the weeks I am not attending.) The weeks I attend my husband volunteers in childcare. We go to a biweekly bible study on fridays, a small group biweekly on sundays, and a parenting small group on the fridays the bible study isn't meeting. I also attend the women's events over the summer, and my husband is currently doing discipleship with one of the elders, we also attend any random pop up bible studies and most events we can make it to. Our church and our church family is a huge part of our lives.

Our parenting is so important to us and we put great efforts into making sure that we do family worship together 3-5 times a week, we do board game nights, movie nights, attend our children's activities and make sure we are reading books and listening to podcasts on parenting as we always seek to improve our parenting and make sure we are parenting well and turning our children to Christ.

I work as a Mathematics paraprofessional at a vocational highschool and am currently working on my teaching license to teach middle school mathematics. My husband works with Developmentally delayed adults at a day program.

We try to seek new ways to serve the church and serve our neighbors and look for oppurtunities to show our children responsibility, and compassion towards other people.

Most of the photos we will include will be of our church family as that is where we spend a majority of our time. We also have very loving and close relationships with my MIL and FIL as well as my BIL and his girlfriend, we try to have sunday dinner over there as often as possible. My MIL and FIL are wonderful grandparents to our children and have never made them feel like they aren't really family despite them being my husbands stepchildren. My FIL when we told them we were starting this journey joked that the stroller should have a good shock system and the diaper ergonomic so he can work in the garden with the children and bring them on walks. They are both very involved in our childrens lives and this would be no different with the children we have from embryo adoption. We have a very close relationship with my brother and his wife who are so excited to potentially have more nephews and nieces to play with and adore. My family and us are very close and have some sort of family get together once a month where aunts uncles, cousins etc all come together to celebrate any birthdays or holidays that month.

Our family enjoys the outdoors and enjoys campfire, camping, hiking, fishing, swimming etc and will take any oppurtunity to enjoy the outdoors to see what God has created and blessed us with. We are a foodie family and enjoy any and all foods, our children have been enjoying things like sushi, goat cheese, pho, udon, chinese food, italian food, etc etc since they were young and our family rule is you have to take at least 2 bites before you say you don't like something.

I know this was alot to read but we really wanted to give you an idea of who we are and what really matters to us.

Sincerely R and A