Ultra Wards: February 2009

Hi,

We are a fun loving family of five Matt (fun to be around dad), Alissa (caring and comforting mom), Kaiya (spirited “princess” 7 year old), Taj (laid back “wanna be cowboy” 4 year old), and Marley (happy “little bug” 1year old). We love spending time together as a family. Some of the things we enjoy doing are camping, hiking, swimming, racing, flying kites at the park, exploring the Dinosaur museum, playing at the beach, reading books and having parties with our cousins. We want more kids in our family to share our love! We have always wanted to adopt!
Matt is 32 years old and was born and raised in Orem, Utah. Matt is so much fun and he is full of energy! He is a good friend and likes to make others laugh. Matt loves to serve those around him and is always there when you need him. Matt is the best Dad he is very loving and caring. His favorite thing to do is spend time with our kids. Matt is a hard worker and makes sure that his family is taken care of. Matt is very determined and if he sets his mind towards a goal it is always achieved. Matt is very smart He graduated from UVSC with an associates in philosophy and from BYU Hawaii in International Business. He often takes courses and reads lots of books to continue educating himself. An education is very important to us. Some of Matt’s hobbies are biking, snowshoeing, swimming, running(he loves ultra marathons 100 miles of running in 24 hours), water skiing and his favorite is surfing. We have been married for 8 ½ years. Matt is a wonderful husband. He is the love of my life and my very best friend.
Alissa is a very loving, kind and patient mother and spouse. We feel grateful that she has always been able to be home with the kids so our children can have the friendship and loving foundation of our home. Alissa loves to make happy memories for the kids, at birthdays and holidays especially. She will stay up late planning fun parties, she loves making beautiful home made birthday cakes from butterflies to elmo to motorcycles. Every holiday is a fun event as she always goes the extra mile to make sure they have fond memories including exciting Easter egg hunts, great Halloween costumes and Christmas surprises. Alissa feels it’s very important to be the best mom she can be. There are so many outside influences on our children and we want them to grow up happy, self sufficient for the future, safe and able to make good choices. Alissa has our children involved in extra curricular activities such as dance, sports and music to help them find their talents, develop self discipline and to have fun with other children. She invests a lot of time into our children by reading to them, playing, singing, and reading to find ways to teach our children. Alissa loves to cook and is big on healthy wholesome food. She is very good about teaching our kids responsibility by giving them jobs and making sure they do them before they can play. Alissa loves being a mom and is happy she gets to be with them all day! Alissa enjoys biking, swimming, hiking, camping, gardening and being outside in the sunshine.
As for our extended family, we are very involved with lots of fun things. Alissa comes from a happy family of 6 children and we have regular family dinners to celebrate birthdays and holidays with all of the cousins on that side (7 cousins and counting). We also will go boating and on short little vacation with some of Alissas siblings; they all live with in 30 minutes of our house. Matt only has one brother (Jeremy) and though we live about an hour apart we are still very good friends, they bike and run together. Jeremy has 3 kids; the oldest was adopted as an infant. Matts parents love their grandkids and enjoy sleepovers at Grandmas house where Grandma gives them all of her attention and spoils them to death. We are so blessed to have such a great family who loves us so much and are just as excited as we are to have a new little baby join our family.
We live in a diverse, quiet neighborhood located in Eagle Mountain, Utah. Our home has 6 bedrooms and a spacious back yard where we enjoy family BBQs on warm summer nights.
Our streets are filled with kids and we live a block away from the park where we have weekly play groups with our friends and neighbors. The church and elementary school are in walking distance of our home. We love our neighborhood and feel that it is the perfect place to raise our family.
We are so grateful for what you are doing. This is how we feel about you!
Courageous, full of love and selfless we admire and respect you! we will always let our child know of the love you have for him and the hard decision you had to make. You are an answer to our prayers
thank you for giving us this most precious gift!

With Love,

Matt, Alissa, Kaiya, Taj, and Marley