Dear Veronica,

Happy Groundhog Day! We always think of you on your favorite holiday! Katie is eight years old now and in second grade. It is hard to believe how fast time is flying by.

Katie still enjoys swimming on the swim team, running and riding her bike. She also loves to sing and make up dance routines with her friends.

She attends Good News Club one afternoon a week and is part of our younger youth group at church.

Katie has been processing a lot of details about her adoption story lately and is beginning to understand how special and unique her story is.

We will be eternally grateful for the part you played in helping us match with Katie’s birth mom and forming our forever family! We pray often for you and the rest of the staff at Lifetime!

Love,

Tricia and Roger

Can you believe Maddox is 15 weeks old?! I still pinch myself. I cannot believe he is real.
 
I talk with his birth mother once or twice a week. She’s always telling me thank you for raising her child. This makes my heart smile. I am so thankful for her and I absolutely love her!
 
I am also thankful for all of you ladies at Lifetime. I brag on you and my experience all the time!
 
-Tequila (and Kevin)

Good morning Diane,

This morning I recommended Lifetime to an adoption support group I’m a part of on Facebook. As I was writing about your support for birth moms and adoptive families alike, I found myself hoping a member of the Lifetime family would read the impact you’ve had on our lives!
 
There’s no greater indicator of an exceptional experience than a repeat client and we are so thankful we returned for our second adoption with Lifetime. I also can’t overstate our joy of not only bringing sweet Judah home but also our growing relationship with his lovely birth family.
 
Elijah and Georgia are enjoying their little brother so much! Their only conflict is who gets to hold or feed him next.
 
Fondly,
 
Brent and Latonia

Wow! We cannot believe that Maddox will be three weeks old on Wednesday. Time is flying by! It seems like he was just born yesterday.
 
We still cannot thank you all enough for making our dreams become a reality! Can’t stop looking at him. I have to pinch myself because I cannot believe he is real.
 
Love,
Kevin and Tequila

Hi Lovely Lifetime Staff!
I haven’t been in touch regularly about how our Keenan is doing, but he’s doing great! In fact, since we moved to LA he’s told us he wants to be an entertainer, so we put him in glee, musical theater, hip hop and broadway dance. He also started modeling in December and has been shooting for Gymboree. You can see him on the website, in stores and on mailers.
 
He is a great student, his teachers and other parents ADORE him, and he’s an all-round athlete. He just learned to snowboard at Lake Tahoe over spring break. He happens to also be great at math and robots, and he loves babies and animals. In fact, he and big sister Vanessa keep begging us to adopt more babies.
 
Open adoption has worked out great for all of us. Keenan knows both birth parents and feels those beams of love from them at all times. We helped Keenan’s birth mama Nikkie do her family tree using DNA, and she miraculously connected with her own (late) birth mother’s family, found out she has two half sisters who she has connected with, and found out who her birth father is. He had never been married, has no other kids, and didn’t know about Nikkie. She has two giant new families now! What an experience someone who grew up as an adopted only child.
 
We continue to shape our open adoption with insights from Mama Nikkie and how her adoption story has unfolded. We are also helping Keenan’s birth father do his family tree. He was raised by his maternal grandmother and doesn’t really know his father. As with Mama Nikkie, we are offering to make some connections together, to support Keenan and his family of origin. Mama Nikkie, Jack and I keep talking about the book we are going to write. Adoption has changed our lives in so many awesome, exciting, powerful ways!
-Mary

“A new baby is like the beginning of all things:
wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities.”

― Eda J. LeShan
 
Lifetime would like to congratulate adoptive parents Kevin and Tequila from Georgia! They just adopted a baby boy, Maddox, through a Lifetime adoption!

Dear Libby,
Happy Easter! It’s so fun to watch Katie get excited about taking pictures with her bunny to send you for Easter! She picked out her dress and where she wanted the bunny in the photos. She loves to look at our profile to see the picture that you requested of our rabbits lined up in a row. It’s a wonderful reminder to us about how much you cared about every little detail of our profile, which helped lead us to the perfect match with Katie’s birth mom!
 
Katie is seven years old, loves 1st grade and is reading up a storm! She stays very active with running, riding her bike, swim team and hip hop classes. She loves attending the “big kids” Sunday school class and youth group at church. She keeps us very busy and we wouldn’t want it any other way!
 
We love Easter for another reason also, in that we get to celebrate Katie’s spiritual birthday as she accepted Jesus four years ago this season!
 
We will be eternally grateful for all of the love, care, and prayer that you put into every little detail of our profile and adoption match. We appreciate everything you and the rest of the Lifetime staff has done for our family and we pray often for each of you, the adoptive families and especially the birthmoms.
 
Love,
Tricia and Roger

Hi Patty and Diane,
We wanted to give you an update, as Jonah is nine months old and his adoption was finalized a few months ago. We still can’t believe he is ours! It still feels like just yesterday that we brought him home. He’s such a good baby and is quite the little charmer. We are planning on meeting up with his birth mom this summer. We also provide monthly photos to her via Facebook.
 
We’re thinking forward and are hoping to be available to adopt baby number two early next year. We’re excited to get everything set up for adopting again!
 
-Andrea & Adolphus

Hi Diane,
 
Just a quick update on our Lifetime girls for you. Look at these beauties! Sisters and best friends for sure.
 
Juliana (6) is doing great in kindergarten and is simply incredible. She is like no other child I know. Goofy, kind, incredibly intelligent with Math and Science, curious and shy. After four years, she is still obsessed with dinosaurs and dragons and has started Ninja training because she wants to be a ninja and a cop when she grows up. She makes my heart soar. We continue to keep in touch with her birth mother and biological sister and visited the aquarium with them last month.
 
Macy (2) is opposite of Juliana in almost every way except her sweetness. She loves all things girly. He life is all about music, singing, dancing and doing art projects. She doesn’t have a shy bone in her body and makes friends everywhere she goes. She loves to cuddle and read books too. She’s incredible!
 
Love from Texas,
Andy and Bethany

Hi Veronica,
 
Happy Holidays! Gracie is reaching 18 months old…time sure flies. She’s such and energetic, happy and beautiful girl. We love watching her grow and her personality develop. We can’t thank Lifetime enough for helping us with our adoption!
 
-Casey and Lisa