Hi Diane!

We feel so unbelievably blessed to be Zachary's mommy and daddy!  Hope all is well with everyone at Lifetime! We can never thank you all enough for helping us create our family! It's been a long journey, but it has proven to be worth the wait! This is definitely the baby that God meant for our family!

-Mickey & Amber

Hello Diane,

We're just so appreciative of you and all that the Lifetime family has done for our family. Thanks so much for your kind words. God is so awesome and I’ve learned so much from Him through this process. Our family loves Mason. He is such a wonderful baby!

God Bless you and the entire Lifetime staff. We'll never forget how you’ve made this all a reality!

-Gerald & Yolanda

Hi Amie-

I hope you are doing well. Here's a pic of our little bundle of joy and his bro!

-Kristy & Antwaun

Hi Veronica,

We are so amazed at how time flies by so quickly.  We can't believe that Jaxon is already six weeks old and weighs over nine pounds!  Things are going very well and we are so proud to be his parents.  He is growing by the day and is a very happy active baby. He is absolutely angelic!  We are truly blessed and remain forever grateful to Lifetime for the invaluable role you all played in Jaxon coming into our home.  Jaxon is such a blessing in so many ways.

We are in regular contact with Jaxon's birthmother and are becoming fast friends and family.  She appears to be doing very well and she is happy with her choice to place Jaxon up for adoption. We hope to be able to visit with her around the 4th of the July holiday if she comes to our area as planned.

Because things are going so well with Jaxon's adoption, we have had two very close friends express that they had been privately considering adoption. Now that they have experienced how things were for us with Jaxon, they are that much closer to deciding to adopt in the future!  We feel so proud to be able to be an example of a positive adoption experience! 

-Allen & Melinda

Lifetime staff,

A quick thank you for all your diligent, hard work and fervent prayer which led our beautiful son Silas to us!

Blessings to you and your families,

Affron & Noelle

Dear Dee & Diane,

Just wanted to send you a quick note that Anaya's adoption was finalized last week. We can hardly believe we started the whole adoption process just about a year ago and now everything is complete! Naya is six and a half months old already. She is learning and growing every day. Thank you both and the rest of the Lifetime staff for helping to build our beautiful family!

God Bless,
Callea, Ross, & Naya

Time is just flying by! Aiden is six months old and into EVERYTHING! He's crawling all over the house exploring and pulling up on everything and trying his very best to walk. He pulls himself up and lets go and falls. He amazed the doctor yesterday with everything he can do. We're so proud of him! He's healthy and happy and that's all that matters. Aiden has brought so much joy to all of us.

If you are reading this and considering adoption, pray and seek God's plan for your family and everything will turn out for the best!

-Ryan & Brandi

Hello Diane & our Lifetime family,

Guess who turned two? How the time has flown by, it seems like we just brought her home. Now "Princess" Izabel has blossomed into a vibrant, energetic toddler. There's never a dull moment - whether talking, singing, counting, dancing, or just being silly. Izabel continues to bring us joy and pride, even during her tantrums. It is an honor to be her parents.

Thanks for guiding us on the journey that led to our little angel. God bless you all & continue the marvelous work that you do!

Have a safe holiday,

LaLeche & Sean

Aloha, Diane!

We just wanted to thank Lifetime again for helping us make our family complete. Yay! We officially finalized Nijel's adoption this week! Nijel is six and a half months old now, and we truly cannot remember what our lives were like before this precious blessing came into our lives. He has stolen our hearts, that's for sure!

Love,
Craig and Jennifer

Dear Veronica and Lifetime staff,

We are so excited about the new addition to our family; our son Jaxon Aidan! We are so grateful and appreciative for the role Lifetime Adoption played in making our dream of starting a family come true. We never imagined that within three months of signing on with Lifetime that we would have our own God-made baby in our home and lives forever! Lifetime's dedication (and especially dedicated efforts) made an otherwise anxious process extremely enjoyable.

Many thanks,
Allen & Melinda

Hi Diane and our Lifetime family,

Well...it's been a whole year and we are still in disbelief!! We still marvel at our daughter and how much joy she has brought us as well as our entire family. Looking back through all of our trials with infertility we just could not see or understand what God's plan was for us.  Now looking at our daughter, we understand and all the sorrow and tears that we had for so many years seemed to disappear instantly with her birth. We are so looking forward to our lives as a family--Life could not be happier!

Always,
Dave, Tiffany and Little Miss Ayden-Elizabeth

Here's a photo of little Aiden enjoying some ice cream. Isn't this the sweetest face!? Aiden gives me so much joy and this year I was able to celebrate Mother's Day with very full arms! I vividly remember sending our profiles out a couple days before last Mother's Day and now this Mother's Day I am holding our beautiful baby boy! I can't even begin to express the amazing feeling of having my arms full with our son! Last mother's day this was just a dream! This Mother's Day was a reality and I enjoyed every minute of it. We celebrated Birthmother's Day the day before Mother's Day as well!

Aiden is only five months old and doesn't really understand yet but one day he will celebrate Birthmother's Day with the same enthusiasm as us! We emailed his birthmom a card and lots of love you's from family and we sent her lots of wonderful pictures.

Just wanted to say thank you Lifetime for helping us in adopting our son. You all worked so hard to find us a wonderful amazing birthmom and a beautiful baby boy! we are so glad God used Lifetime to help us in creating our forever family and we are all so blessed that Aiden has such an amazing birthmom!
 
Love,
Ryan, Brandi, and Aiden

Xavier turned three last month! We can’t believe the time has gone by so fast. It seems like yesterday our lives changed forever when God brought you into our lives with such a precious gift. Well that precious gift is extremely intelligent and has one interesting personality, to say the least!

We read to him every night, and once he has heard the book a couple times, he can read it to you based on the pictures he sees. He’s amazing! He has really taken to the drums and has for some time now. He makes up beats and sometimes I have to look to make sure it’s him playing because it sounds just that in sync. Music is his thing which makes me tremendously happy because it’s my thing too! Hopefully, he will start lessons with the minister of music at our church by the end of the year.

He spends a lot of time with our parents who of course let him do anything he wants! We guess that’s a grandparent’s prerogative, especially considering he’s the only one on my side and 12 years younger than the last grandchild on Mike’s side. Spoiled is an understatement!

The summer is quickly approaching, and we are trying anxiously waiting to see if he gets into child development in the district I teach in. Also the potty training is finally almost a triumph!

Sincerely,
Mike, Alonia & Xavier

Hi Heidi and Lifetime staff,

We are back home in Hawaii with our beautiful angel Silas Moshea, now three weeks old. He is just a little peanut, weighing five pounds, one ounce at birth and born on Easter Sunday.

They say good things come to those who wait, and this is certainly true for us. After a long faith-filled journey to adoption, we are so blessed with the most amazingly mild-mannered and perfectly healthy baby.  We couldn't be more happy.  

Big sister Raina is such a great little mommy.  After a long night of feedings I was asleep on the couch and woke up to find her changing his diaper and making a bottle. She loves strolling him around the neighborhood and showing him off to her friends.  Now, if only we could train her to wake up at 1am, 3am, 5am to feed him in the middle of the night!

God Bless You Lifetime Staff for helping Silas find us!

With Love and Aloha, 
Affron, Noelle and big sister Raina

Congratulations from your
friends at Lifetime!

We appreciate all your help and the support from Lifetime. We are all doing well and very happy!

-Telita and Dave

Last Easter weekend Evan was a well-behaved little guy, sporting his bunny attire for the whole day on Sunday.   (Even bunny-ear feet on his pants!) He is seven months old now....already!  Boy, time goes by fast.

Hope your Easter weekend was as much fun as ours,

-Tom, Dawnette, and Evan

Hi Libby,

In honor of the faith you had in us to get the perfect picture of our three bunnies for our profile, these Easter pictures are for you!  When we came to visit Lifetime, you challenged us to take a picture of Katie with the bunnies. We have been planning this Easter picture ever since then. Here is a photo of Katie with Daisy and Hershey.  We hope you had a wonderful Easter.  We were especially blessed this year to have Katie with us!!!!  We thank God every day for you and the rest of the staff at Lifetime and for the Dream Come True you have given us in our daughter!  We are enjoying every moment with her!  Thanks again for all of the hard work you put into our adoption!

Love,
Roger, Tricia and Katie

Hi Diane,
Here is a recent picture of Ayden sitting on the front porch stairs after church yesterday for Easter with her Easter bunny. Again, we just marvel at her growth and development and as usual...she is still getting into everything! Our daughter brings us a wealth of joy and we really could not imagine our lives without her; she is simply our world (and nana and pawpaw's world too).

She is walking and learning to talk and believe me...Ayden is so warm and friendly she doesn't meet a stranger! We are so blessed to have her and every day we send up a prayer thanking God and Ayden's birthmother for such a wonderful and blessed gift. Ayden will be a year old in a few short weeks and we simply can't believe how time has flown. Again we thank Lifetime for their presence in matching us with the most giving and beautiful birthmother--we are still in awe and completely humbled to be Ayden's parents for she is truly a gift from God.

As always with love,
Dave, Tiffany and Little Miss Ayden-Elizabeth

Happy Easter to the Lifetime staff!
Aiden just had his very first Easter egg hunt. He got tons of treats!

-Ryan & Brandi

Hello Veronica,

I just had to show you a picture of Zoey the day of her first birthday party. We were on the way out the door and she just gave the cutest smile so I wanted to share it with you. She is ADORABLE. Okay, I am a little biased. I am so in love with this little person. Thank God for Lifetime. She is the most amazing gift!

Love,
Kaydra

Hello Heidi and Veronica,

We both feel tremendously blessed to have such a sweet, precious baby girl. Everyone, including us, is so amazed at how quickly our adoption process happened. We signed the contract in November was matched in January and the baby was born in March! We are so thankful to Lifetime for bringing us our wonderful birthmom, who made our dreams come true by completing our family. We are forever grateful to her and truly feel honored that she chose us to love and raise Kylie.

Kylie Elizabeth was born weighing six pounds, seven ounces. She has had her first doctor's appointment and is very healthy. She sleeps all day and likes to stay up at night which is fine because her mommy is a night owl too. She has already claimed her rightful throne as princess in the house and enjoys being the center of attention. She is adored by her big brother and he is very protective of her. Thanks again Lifetime for bringing us our daughter. We can't imagine our lives without her!

Sincerely,
Will & Tina

Hey Diane,

Just wanted to let you know that we finished all our post placement assessments last month. Just in time to move!  Our attorney thinks we should receive the final adoption decree by the end of April. 

Naya is four months old already and growing like a weed.  She is in the 95th percentile for height and weight.  She is such a happy girl, we couldn't be more thrilled to have her as our own. We have kept regular visits with her birth family.  They even babysat for us last Saturday while we took care of some errands.  We are very pleased they have chosen to remain an active part of our daughter's life.  They have become very special people in our lives and we consider them our family.

Thank you so much for everything you and the rest of the Lifetime staff have done for us.  We will be sure to send another update when we receive our adoption decree! 

With Endless Thanks,
Ross, Callea, and Naya

We just want to thank Lifetime for all the work that was done in order for us to receive our precious baby boy. Landon is now eight pounds. He still has his days and nights mixed up but we don't mind. Our family can't get enough of him; he is LOVED. Thanks again!

-Antwaun and Kristy

Dear Veronica & my Lifetime Friends,

Happy St. Patrick’s Day! I hope you all had a really fun day. Besides celebrating St. Patrick’s Day, we also celebrated my mommy’s birthday (a few days early) with 20 of my pre-school friends.

The theme of the party was Tinkerbell. In the morning I dressed in shamrocks and my Winnie the Pooh bib that said “Baby’s First St. Patrick’s Day” and then for the birthday party, I dressed in my Tinkerbell dress.

Love,
Katie (Lifetime baby of Roger & Tricia)

Hi Amie & Heidi:

Evan will be six months already tomorrow! Here is our adoption story; we hope that it will give other waiting adoptive families hope in their wait...

It seemed like we would never get picked…and then our life changed within a few days.

We started our journey deciding what kind of adoption we wanted to pursue:  international, domestic, agency, facilitation, etc.  After a number of months of researching and phone calling, we picked Lifetime Adoption because it seemed to fit most with the involved approach we wanted to have to make the experience even more personal. 

We jumped on board and did everything we were advised to do by Lifetime.  Home study approval and profile design were our first projects, both completed within a couple of months.  We kept our matching preferences very open; our only request was for an infant (or twins!).  If God’s grand design for each little blessing chooses things like eye color, skin tone, and boy versus girl, who were we to put parameters on that blessing?   We just wanted a chance to start at the beginning, with a healthy newborn, and things like gender or race would simply be part of the blessing we would receive.

Then the wait started and just kept lingering!  We continued to send more and more profiles; revised with updates as Lifetime suggested. We made sure our home study was ready and updated after a year.  At the 18-month mark of waiting came around, we found ourselves feeling a bit dejected and asking the question,”What if we’re never picked?”  We asked ourselves that question a lot, especially after a promising match fell apart and it was hard to remain optimistic.  We needed to continue to believe that a birth mom would see our profile and pick us to be the good parents she needed to find for her child.

Despite the waiting, we never relented on the details – we knew it was important to stay “ready.”  We kept a “travel box” ready with things like important papers and other items for our inevitable trip.  We paid our bills early, stayed on top of clothes washing and other household items and had time off plans ready and waiting for our respective workplaces. 

And then, all of a sudden, it happened!

Click here to read Tom & Dawnette's adoption story

Hi Amie,
We finalized Cooper's adoption! We had our adoption celebration last week by video conference! We are very excited!

Cooper is a great baby and I am truly blessed to have him in my life.  I love being a mommy; it is the most amazing thing I have ever done.  I want to thank you and everyone at Lifetime.  I was very nervous going into the adoption process and you all helped to calm my nerves.  For the most part, this journey was smooth with a few bumps but during those stressful times it was comforting to know that I had someone to call and talk through it with.  I really liked the fact that Lifetime made me feel important and if I called with a question or concern I would get an immediate response.  I can not say enough good about you, Dee and Lifetime.  I have been called for a reference and look forward to sharing my story with more potential families.  I also look forward to working with you in a couple years for a playmate for Cooper.

So from the bottom of our hearts we thank you and may God Bless your work!

-Stacey and Cooper

Aiden just turned three months old and he is growing so fast! We went to the doctor and Aiden weighed 16 pounds and he was a little over 27 inches long! Our doctor said he was definitely going to be a tall boy and he's so advanced! Aiden amazes us every day with what he learns.

Last Sunday was his dedication service at our church. Aiden is the first adopted child in our church and he is such a blessing. We love being his parents! We are so thankful that God chose us to be a part of this precious child's life. We email Aiden's birthmother every Friday with all of his progress, stories of what he did that week, and pictures of him. Thanks again for everything! We will never forget the staff at Lifetime and we will never forget Aiden's adoption.
 
-Ryan & Brandi

Dear Veronica & my Lifetime Friends,

I hope you all had a really fun Valentine’s Day.  I got to be at Disneyland for Valentine’s Day with mommy, daddy & Nana.  I had a wonderful first trip to The Disneyland Resort.  I just loved all the sights, sounds, characters and rides (even though I did sleep through a few of them).  My first Disney ride was Heimlich’s Chew Chew Train in Bug’s Land at Disney’s California Adventure but I went on everything from Dumbo, Peter Pan, & Toy Story Mania to Pirate’s of the Caribbean.  I also got to meet Mickey, Minnie, Tinker Bell, Snow White, Cinderella, Sleeping Beauty, Pooh and Tigger.  I wanted to take this opportunity during Valentine’s to tell you again how much I love and appreciate all of you at Lifetime for helping my birthmom and  me find my Lifetime family.  My birthmom calls often to express how happy she is for herself and for us that my mommy and daddy have the opportunity to raise me.  Thank you for playing a huge role in making this all happen!

Love,

Katie (Tricia & Roger's Lifetime baby)

We just wanted to drop a note to say thanks to all the wonderful Lifetime staff and to offer words of encouragement to waiting families.

God's timing is not our timing, but He is faithful to His promises.  We are eternally grateful to Him for blessing us with our wonderful son Caleb. He is such a great baby. He is very alert, active and has the cutest smile that melts our hearts.

It is through God's gift we truly understand unconditional love. No matter how long or how difficult the wait may seem, don't give up and keep the faith. Know that all things work together for good. God is preparing you and your future birthmother for a match made in heaven. Be encouraged, be hopeful and be blessed.

-Czakar and Cynthia

There is only one word or "name" to describe the way we feel. It's JESUS!  Regardless to any obstacle, God was in control.  We are so overjoyed with this precious gift of life.   We have so much we could say, but we truly want to say to all awaiting families is "What God has for you, it is for you!  Please, pray, pray, pray, and keep the faith.  God is with you!

-Torré and Marion

Hi Veronica, 

We just wanted to send you an update to let you know that we finalized Trinity's adoption last week!

Trinity is truly a joy.  She is the most amazing little girl and has so much personality that people always stop to talk to her.  Words cannot express how happy and grateful we are to have her in our lives.  I know you have heard before it but we really can't imagine life without her.  We thank Lifetime so much for bringing us and our little girl together.

In this picture Tavonia said,  "hey girl" and she put her hand up and said "hey" back!  The doctor said her speech is quite advanced.

-Jerome and Tavonia