Parenting

Although we don’t yet have children of our own, we often talk about how we will raise them and we would like to take a moment to share that with you.

We have been blessed to be able to spend time with many children that are in our family, ward and neighborhood. We love spending time with them and getting to experience a bit of what it will be like to be parents.

Through all the discussions we’ve had about being parents, we know that we want our home to be a place of:

Love

Where they will know they are loved by not only us, but by you too. We want to teach our children that they are loved and accepted no matter what they do or have done.

Communication

Where our children see us communicate well with each other, and know they can talk to us about anything. We want to have family dinners each night where we can talk about our day, and where our children feel safe expressing opinions or concerns that they have.

Learning

We know education is important. We want our children to love learning from a young age through dance, sports, music, art and other wholesome activities. We want to spend time with them reading and making learning fun. We want to teach our children to set goals, and to feel the sense of accomplishment that comes with achieving those goals through hard work and determination.

Safety and Peace

We hope that our home will be a place of safety. A place where no matter what the world is like on the outside, our home will be a safe haven; one where they will want to be and want to bring their friends. A place they will want to come to after a hard day at school or after winning the game.

Fun

We plan on having family time together. We want build unity within our family. We want to take family vacations, and have other memory-making activities. Some of our favorite memories have been made with our families, and we want to continue that with our children.

We are both so excited for the blessing of becoming parents. We want to be involved with our children’s educations, and will support them in all their worthwhile pursuits.