Spotlight Saturday - Robby & Angee

Please take a moment to get to know Robby & Angee, a happy couple in our home state of Arizona hoping to adopt.

You can find out more about them and contact them by visiting their adoption blog:

Update: Congratulations to Robby & Angee! They adopted a girl in May!

Happily Ever After

Once Upon a Time, there was a King and Queen. They longed for a child, but for years their dream did not come true. Finally, they decided to search for an Angel. They knew this Angel would bring their miracle to them and bless them with a child. So the King and Queen prayed for their Angel. They told their friends to help search for their Angel. The King and Queen know she is out there and cannot wait to meet her. They are so excited to welcome their Angel into their home and their lives to complete their Happily Ever After.

About Us

We met in our Single's ward while we were both going to college. After a few misunderstandings, Robby completely ignoring Angee, and Angee dating Robby's roommate and that not working out, Robby finally asked Angee on a date. We went to a wedding... 2 hours away. We talked the entire ride there and back and quickly knew that we wanted to spend all our time together. 2 days later, Angee drove 3 hours to meet Robby's family. The next day, Robby drove the 3 hours back and met Angee's family. 2 months (exactly) from our first date, Robby proposed to Angee. She said yes and on our 6 month anniversary, we were married in the Mesa Arizona Temple.

We love to watch movies together. Our first date, after the wedding, we watched 6 together. We love all kinds of movies though Angee tends to enjoy Disney movies and chick flicks more, while Robby enjoys action and drama (he calls them "thinking" movies). We also love to read together. Angee will read out loud to Robby while we are driving. She even convinced him to like listening to Twilight. Robby loves reading so much and could probably spend 95 percent of his time in a library. He is constantly learning new things and has taught himself how to do so many different things just from reading. He hopes to one day write his own book. Angee is more of a fantasy reader. She loves Anne of Green Gables and Harry Potter and has read them over and over again.

We love to go to Disneyland. We go several times a year and just love the magic that Disneyland has. We try to do something new every time we go but we do have our favorite things to do. Robby loves to go and draw while Angee loves to watch the parades and fireworks.

We both have a love of music. Robby plays the guitar and Angee plays the Tuba and sings. We hope our children will have a love of music, whether or not they play an instrument or sing, or just love listening to music, that will be fine with us. We also were in sports and want to allow them to choose a sport that they love and will work hard at, and be successful in.

Our Thoughts on Adoption

We have been dreaming about our future children for a while, and though some dreams have changed, such as having 9 months of a baby growing inside and having time to prepare, a lot of them have stayed the same. We want to instill a love of learning. We already have a small library of children's books and are building upon that slowly. We want to read to our children and spend time with them. Angee will be a stay-at-home mom and though Robby will work outside the house for now, he is working on building a business so that he can work from home and spend as much time as possible with our family.

When we learned that we would be adopting to complete our family, we began researching adoption. During that research, we learned about birth parents and open adoption. We have such a great love and respect for birth parents. We want our children to know that they have birth parents who love them and want our children to know their birth parents through out their lives. We are very comfortable with an open adoption and hope to build a lasting relationship with birth parents, because there can never be enough people in a child's life that love them and care for them.

Love,

Robby & Angee