Dear Current Stranger/Future Friend,

Thank you for taking the time to read and learn about us! While we can’t imagine what you are currently facing, we wish you the best as you work to make the challenging decisions that lie ahead of you. We believe that placing a child for adoption is a loving and selfless act, and we have the utmost respect for anyone who makes this decision. We hope you find peace and comfort along your way as you strive to find what is best for you and your child.

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Financial Support

Expectant mothers who choose to make an adoption plan may qualify for some level of financial assistance during their pregnancy. However, each person's situation and specific needs are different. Your adoption social worker can help you determine what level of assistance you qualify for and deserve. Many expectant mothers qualify for financial assistance to cover basic pregnancy and living expenses, including but not limited to - transportation reimbursement, utility assistance for phone, water, and electricity/gas, maternity clothing and supplements, etc.

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FAQ’s about placing a baby for Adoption

I'm considering giving my baby up for adoption. How much does that cost?

It won't cost you anything. If you choose to place your baby for adoption, all of your medical and legal fees will be covered and you may be eligible for financial assistance with other pregnancy-related expenses.

I'm experiencing an unplanned pregnancy and don't know who the birth father is. Can I still place my baby for adoption?

Yes. Even if you don’t know the identity of the birth father, you can still choose to make an adoption plan. However, every adoption situation is different. The adoption social worker you’re assigned to will get to know you and your story first, and then guide you through the process accordingly.

When is the right time to talk with an adoption professional?

You can make an adoption plan at any point in your pregnancy, even after the baby has been born. But, it's important to start the process as early in your pregnancy as possible. Connecting with those resources will allow you to gain access to important medical services, including prenatal care, to help ensure a healthy pregnancy.

When I create an adoption plan, will I get to choose who is in the room with me during delivery?

One aspect of your adoption plan is the "Hospital Plan" an outline of how you'd like your hospital stay and delivery to go. You can craft this on your own or with the help of your adoption social worker. But everything is up to you. You’ll be able to choose who comes to the hospital with you, who is in the room with you during delivery, and how much time you’d like to spend with the baby before signing the final papers.

How much contact will I have with the adoptive family after I place my baby with them?

As part of your adoption plan, you'll determine whether or not you’d like to have an open or closed adoption or something in between. Open adoptions may include phone calls, messaging (via social media, email, or text), and/or periodic visits each year. Closed adoptions may include no contact at all or annual updates provided to the birth parent(s) by the adoptive family. Each post-adoption relationship is different and can vary based on what an expectant mother chooses in her adoption plan.

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Our Blogs

Thanksgiving in Tahoe

12/19/2022

This year we drove to Lake Tahoe where we stayed in a rented cabin with some of Nate's brothers and their families. We were there for the better part of a week, and enjoyed our time hanging out, playing games, sledding, eating, baking, and visiting the lake. Our kids loved the time they had to play with cousins. Unfortuantely, the sledding was a bit icy but still lots of fun. As usual, our dog had fun running down the hill with us. Thanksgiving day made for a crowded kitchen with everyone trying to squeeze in to prepare food around the same time, but the results were delicious. We provided yams, butterhorn rolls, and an apple pie made from the apples from our tree. We visited the lake shore on our last full day. Despite the frigid temperatures and the ice encased shore, our dog was elated at the oppertunity to get in the water since she loves to swim! After all, she is a water dog... Knowing we wouldn't be there long and she would be able to warm right back up, we allowed her to skip about in the water for a bit. She was more excited that a...

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Halloween

11/06/2022

Our Halloween was less chaotic this year than last since last year we had just barely moved into our house. We celebrated the Friday before Halloween with the usual family party at Rebecca's parent's place, involving dinner, costumes, treats, and a Halloween movie. Unfortunately due to bad traffic, we didn't have time to carve jack-o-lanterns at the family party this year, so we carved ours at home instead. Austin designed a ghost to cut out, and Emma wanted to do a horse. We helped them draw out and cut out their designs, with pretty good results. Rebecca even finished the hat she started making last year for our dog. She wouldn't keep the hat on very long, but she did wear it for a bit. Living in a more rural area made trick-or-treating a bit different, but we still had a great time. A number of friends invited us to stop by their houses, so instead of walking around, we drove to some specific places, all of which were handing out large candy bars. Our kids were thrilled with their great candy treasures! And many people even shared candy with us as well. One of our friends even invited lot...

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Owl Pellets

05/29/2022

Our kids recently learned about owls, and we got some owl pellets for them to disect. They were pretty excited to find multiple skulls inside of their pellets and spent awhile trying to identify the various other bones they found using the charts that came with the pellets.

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Horseback Riding

02/06/2022

Rebecca, Austin, and Emma all take horseback riding lessons together from a local horse rescue. In this way, we are able to support the rescue while also getting time to ride and learn. Because we are usually all riding, we don't get many pictures or videos of our experiences, but since we happened to have one lesson on a day that Nate had work off, he was able to record us some. https://youtu.be/fyOZesGuCnI We have been taking lessons together for over a year now and we all really enjoy it. We ride a different horse almost every week, giving us the oppertunity to learn to work with different animals and personalities. We not only ride but learn other important aspects of caring for and working with horses.

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Bird Beaks

01/23/2022

We have recently been studying birds some, and as part of our studies we discussed how the feet and beaks of birds were designed to help them survive and function. Different birds have different kinds of beaks to specialize in gathering and eating different foods. To understand this better, we did an activity with different substances to pick up and different implements to pick them up with. We spent a few seconds with each to see how much could be gathered during that time. The different implements represented different types of beaks. Our kids had a great time with this activity and quickly found that some implements worked better for some substances than others. We all love these sort of hands-on activities and experiments.

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Our New Home

12/13/2021

This fall we moved to a new house and property further north of our previous home. We now live on just over 5 acres of land. Our new property has a large barn that includes lots of horse stalls and an indoor riding arena, though it all needs a lot of work before it will be up and ready to use for horses at all. We are excited and have been hard at work trying to get our new previously neglected property in order. We are esepcially happy that our new house is on a quiet private road with fun neighbors who have kids of all ages. Our kids have already befriended the other children on the street and love playing together with them!

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California

11/29/2021

We recently took a trip to California to spend some time at a beach house with college friends. We had a terrific time relaxing, catching up, hanging out on the beach, and playing games. It is nice to have friends who stay your close friends over the years to do fun things with. Additionally, we stopped by the Martinelle factory store where we taste tested some of their more unseen flavors, including sparkling blush, sparkling apple mango, sparkling peach cider, and sparkling apple pomegranate. We also headed out on the famously beautiful 17 Mile Drive on the Monterey Peninsula. I wish we had been able to spend more time along that stunning stretch of coastline. We love fun trips like these that let us relax and explore! We also were able to visit some of Nate's family living in California briefly while we were out that direction, which worked out perfectly.

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Rescuing the Helpless

09/14/2021

A couple weeks ago, we found a baby mourning dove shivering on our front lawn. Actually, our dog found it first, and licked it a few times as she loves to do with anything she finds. We looked around for any sign of its parents or nest. We ended up finding what looked like a broken nest and a recently deceased sibling. Carefully, we buried the dead sibling, but we figured this little bird would have little chance of surviving without some help. Therefore we started searching for what we could do. While I haven't found many birds in need of help in our area, for years as a kid we found injured birds in our neighborhood. At that time, we had a family friend who actually took in such birds and ran a little rescue out of her house, so we were always bringing them to her. I wasn't sure if such a rescue existed anywhere close enough to us, but we ended up finding one further north of our house that fortunately accepted mourning doves. Our kids and I scrapped the rest of our morning plans and drove the little dove up to the rescue. Our efforts seem...

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Scott Family Reunion

08/18/2021

Toward the beginning of August, we enjoyed going to a family reunion for Nate's side of the family. Not all of his large family was able to make it, but we sure had fun with those that could! We spent a few days hanging out at a property in northern Utah, playing games, eating food, hiking, and doing some little competitons. There was even a fun waterslide on the property that we spent an afternoon playing on. Not everyone went on our hike to the Wind Caves, but those who did had a lot of fun! These "caves," which really are more like a little collection of arches, are so fun to explore! Little competitions included a pancake contest, a cupcake decorating contest, and a jump rope contest. Our kids had a blast running around the large property and playing with their cousins. We are grateful to have such a fun family!  

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Independence Day

12/20/2021

We were so happy that our town put on all its normal Indepence Day activities and events this year, and we had fun participating in them! We started out our morning early with a 5K run. Both Austin and Emma improved their run times by around five minutes from the last time they tried two years ago. Rebecca, who was running with Austin, was surprised that she also won first place for her age group. After breakfast, we watched the parade and then returned to the park for additional games and activities. We enjoyed a water fight, learning to use hand powered tools, bingo, and other fun competitions like cup stacking. After doing everything we could fit in at the park, we came home and made a cherry pie that afternoon. Then that evening we had family over for a BBQ dinner, and we returned to the park for a fantastic fireworks show. We are so grateful to live in such a wonderful country where we have the privileges of enjoying the precious freedoms and boundless opportunities that we do! We are particularly grateful for those who have given their time, lives, and resources to the building of these freedoms...

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Moab Anniversary Trip

06/20/2021

Recently we went down to Moab for a couple days to celebrate our wedding anniversary while grandparents watched our kids. While Austin and Emma enjoyed going out to eat, ice cream trips, s'mores, parks, and movies with grandparents, we enjoyed mountain biking, canoyneering, and relaxing further south. Both of us would love to learn how to set things up properly to repell confidently and safely on our own, but since we aren't there yet, we went on a couple guided trips instead. The canyons were beautiful and we really enjoyed the tours. In addition to biking and canyoneering, we also enjoyed relaxing at the pool, eating at a couple nice restraunts, playing disc golf, and picnicing at the end of a short box canyon.

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Spring Track

05/31/2021

Austin and Emma have once again been involved in our area's running club this spring, and both have had a great time running for our city's team. This last week was the final track meet before the district qualifying meet. Our kids were very happy that their teams won ribbons for the relay, qualifying them for the district meet in that event. Most importantly though, they have improved their own personal records as the season has progressed in several events and had a great time participating with friends!

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Visiting Charleston

05/09/2021

During the last week of April, we had the oppertunity to take a trip to Charleston with Rebecca's side of the family. We stayed in a house right next to the beach and were able to spend time there nearly every day during our stay. The beach was often full of hermit crabs, sea shells, sand dollars, jelly fish, and other interesting things to see and explore. Our kids loved to play in the water and the sand. In addition to spending time at the beach, we also enjoyed a hike around a swamp, where we spotted an alligator, and visiting some historic sites including the Provost Dungeon and Exchange, the Middleton Plantation, and Fort Moultrie. It was both fun and educational for all of us.

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Easter

04/12/2021

We try to stick with some fun traditions for Easter each year just as we do other holidays. We often do some activities, such as dying Easter eggs on Saturday. But we usually at least find Easter baskets on Easter day. We also like to do Easter egg hunts. Austin and Emma enjoy hiding eggs about as much as they enjoy finding them, so we always give them a turn to hide some eggs for us to find too. Additionally, we usually enjoy a nice dinner, sometimes with extended family but not always, and we like to have a nice dessert along with it. Here are our kids eating dessert as we read the Easter story from the scriptures:

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Dinosaur Park

04/01/2021

  We feel blessed to live in an area with lots of kid/family friendly places and activities nearby. One such place is called Dinosaur Park. It is actually a museum and a park, with interesting and informative displays inside and a walkway and playground outside. We headed here for a fun family outing on Friday and enjoyed studying various rocks, crystals, minerals, and fossils as we made our way around the inside displays. We gazed up at the impressive skeletons of the giant creatures who roamed the earth so long before we were here and wondered at the remnants of various creatures hailing from the ice age.  Then we headed outside to explore the dozens of painted dinosaur statues dotting the walkways, each with their own descriptive plaques. Of course before heading out it was time to play on the dinosaur themed playground with cement dinosaur skulls to hide under, a giant sea turtle to ride, hatching baby dinosaurs to weave around, and various slides to glide down!

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Carribean Cruise

05/14/2023

Rebecca's parents wanted to take their children and spouses on a cruise to celebrate their 40th wedding anniversary a couple years ago, but COVID messed that up. So, the cruise was rescheduled for this last April. Austin and Emma enjoyed spending a week in California with Nate's siblings playing with cousins while we were on a cruise ship visiting some islands in the Carribean. We spent time while on our vacation visiting old forts, hiking, bicycling, kayaking, snorkeling, relaxing, and swimming among other things. We were able to see a sunken ship and sea turtles, swim with dolphins, feed hungry parrots, an ride zip lines.

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