Dave and Reva
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Dear Birthparents:
We want to thank you for considering us as you start to make your adoption plan. Our hearts go out to you as you are faced with this most important decision. It’s through the courage of birthparents, like yourself, that couples who have struggled with infertility, like us, realize their dream of raising a family.
We were blessed with this gift 3 ½ years ago, when we adopted our daughter, Brenna. We had such a wonderful adoption plan with her birthparents, and we are so excited to embark on our second adoption journey now. We hope that you will consider being part of this journey to fulfill our dream of completing our family. Thank you for the opportunity to share our story with you.
Our Story
We’ve been happily married for 11 years. We met in college, fell in love, and have been inseparable ever since. Dave has worked in the insurance industry since graduation, and he just recently started his own insurance agency. He loves being his own boss and has lots of flexibility with his schedule. Reva is a CPA and has worked as an Accounting Manager for a healthcare system for 11 years. She has a great boss that is very supportive and let’s her work from home part-time. Once Dave’s business takes off, she plans on only working a couple days a week.
After several years of marriage, we realized that our home was missing the joy that only children can bring. We started trying to become pregnant, however, we were soon faced with several infertility issues, which inhibited us from conceiving. After many surgeries and failed infertility treatments, we made the decision to pursue adoption. We learned that adoption is a beautiful way to build a family.
Our Family
Our dream to be parents became a reality the day Brenna was placed in our arms. We still often look at each other in amazement at how blessed we were and what an amazing adoption experience we had. Brenna is such a wonderful little girl and we truly love being her parents. People are always commenting to us about how she is always smiling and laughing, and how she seems to be happy all the time. At her birthday party this year, one of her playmate’s fathers came up to us and said “I don’t think I’ve ever seen Brenna without a big smile on her face."
Brenna is so good with babies, too, always wanting to hold them and play with them. She has such a caring personality. You can be sure that with Brenna as a big sister, your child will never feel lonely and will always have a playmate and best friend. Over the past year Brenna has started to ask for a little brother or sister, often asking Reva to grow a baby in her belly for her. It breaks our hearts to not be able to do this for her, because we have the same wish for another child to love.
We were both raised in close, supportive families, with strong family values. Our families live close by and play huge parts in our life. Each of them knows about our infertility story, and they support us 100% in our quest to grow our family through adoption. In addition to our parents, Dave has two sisters, Reva has one, and we have six nieces and nephews. Holidays are a big deal in our family and there are always lots of get togethers with great food and fun!
In addition to the holidays, we like to travel and go on vacation with our families. Dave’s family loves to go camping and we often make trips to Cooks Forrest with the Hunt clan. We go to the Outer Banks for a week every year with Reva’s family. Brenna absolutely loves swimming in the pool at the house and making sand castles with Daddy at the beach. Reva’s parents also have two timeshares in Mexico, and we try to go down with them every other year. Down the road, we’ll be trading in one of those timeshare weeks to go to Disney!
Our Home
About five years ago, we built a spacious, four bedroom home with a great back yard for kids to run and play. Dave’s become quite the handyman over the years, and has built us a great deck off the house, a brick patio, and a fun wooden play set for Brenna and her future siblings. We love our neighborhood too. It’s small enough that we know everyone but large enough to have lots of kids for Brenna to play with. There are lots of fun annual events for the kids too, such as a summer picnic, an Easter egg hunt/party, and a Christmas extravaganza topped off with Santa arriving on a fire truck! We also started an annual Pumpkin Decorating party at our house when Brenna was 1 ½ years old, and it’s become a neighborhood favorite event. Brenna loves that it’s her own special party. We also live in a great township with good schools and are close to lots of playgrounds, pools and parks.
We are confident that we can give your child a happy, healthy, secure environment, and a bright future filled with promise and lots of love. You would always hold a special place in our hearts and we would make sure your child knew just how special you are and how much love went into their adoption plan. We hope by reading this letter, you will find some peace in your heart and know that you are making the right decision. You are showing incredible courage and the ultimate expression of love for your child in spite of how deeply it must hurt you. We can assure you that if you choose us, we will love your child unconditionally for the rest of our lives.
If you would like to get in contact with us, please feel free to call The Children’s Home of Pittsburgh at 1-800-961-7704 and ask for a birthparent counselor.
Our thoughts and prayers are with you,
Dave and Reva