Our names are Mitzi & David from Burbank, California along with our daughter, Sabina. It is with great respect that we look to you in our efforts to complete our family. We know that your consideration of open adoption is made out of deep love, courage strength and selflessness. Our excitement grows with the thought that you will learn more about us and you will get a sense of the love that we have for each other, our daughter and growing our family. It will be the happiest day of our lives if you pick us to be part of this incredible journey. Please know that if you do choose us, your child will be loved, supported and always accepted unconditionally, in good times and in bad. We can’t wait to meet you!

We are adopting, because we were not fortunate enough to be able to have a family on our own. We have always envisioned sharing our unconditional love, support and opportunities to our children. We are grateful to have the opportunity to adopt in order to be able to fulfill this dream. We adopted our beautiful daughter approximately 4 years ago and we could not imagine our lives without her. We know this process is difficult, but so very rewarding on all sides.

We are excited and ready to provide your child a safe, fun, loving, and stable home, a good education and a sibling that is so excited to become a big sister!

We met while dancing at our mutual friend’s birthday party. While David decided to take his sweet time in reaching out to Mitzi, Mitzi took it upon herself to reach out first! We won each other over by (Mitzi’s) cooking and (David’s) sense of humor. After a year of having fun dating, we got engaged at sunset on a beach we still visit frequently. A year after that we were married in the same church that Mitzi’s parents were married in. While life presented us with many challenges that we overcame together and made us stronger for it, it has also brought us so many blessings.

About 4 years ago, we adopted our amazing daughter Sabina. We love going to the beach, traveling, camping, going to the zoo, amusement parks, having play dates with our family and friends that we have known since childhood, and love teaching Sabina all of our family traditions.

I was born and raised near Glendale, California. I grew up with parents who were loving and supportive. I am the youngest of two, I have a wonderful older sister. I have two master’s degrees, and I work as a PA in plastic and reconstructive surgery helping out mostly breast cancer patients by giving them back something that they didn’t ask to be taken away from them. I truly enjoy working with my patients and seeing them become whole again with more confidence. I have great benefits and flexibility with my schedule, which comes in handy with raising Sabina. It allows me to be there for her whenever needed. She has brought so much light and love in my life and I love watching her grow into this beautifully confident, loving, funny, smart and imaginative young lady. I cannot wait to see what she grows up to be and am happy to be a part of her life to be able to see how it all unfolds.

I am so excited to grow our family in order to be able to support and encourage our children to be whatever makes them their best versions of themselves.

The day I met Mitzi, I knew she was the love of my life! Mitzi is such a caring, supportive and loving woman. She is intelligent, hard-working and cares very much about me, our daughter, our family and her patients. She is dedicated to her family and work equally. When I see Mitzi with our daughter, there is nothing in this world she wouldn’t do for her. She is an amazing mother. She enjoys showing Sabina all of the animals at the zoo and loves pushing her on the swings at the park. She has the magical power of curing all of her ouchies. She is patient and loving when Sabina is having a moment. She is calming and creates some great bed time stories for Sabina to be able to fall asleep. I see how she is going to be in the future: cheering the loudest at her sporting events or taking so many pictures at her school performances. I cannot wait to see our family grow because she is the best mom in the world.

I was born and raised in Highland Park, California. I grew up in a family that supported all of my sports and curricular activities. When I was 4 years old, I started playing baseball and continued playing until college. I was being recruited by major league baseball teams until I had a knee injury from football. Despite that injury, I still love the game and play softball with a co-ed team. My love of the outdoors started with swimming in our pool at home and continued with our family vacations. We would travel all over the US with our motor home and stopped at all signs that said “fishing”. I still enjoy fishing to this day, and am now teaching Sabina all the skills I learned.

For 15 years, I worked with troubled youth building positive relationships and mutual respect. My calm attitude and active listening skills for them has helped me in being the same way with my daughter. It has allowed me to build a strong father daughter bond. I also love working on my classic cars and going to car shows.

David is my best friend and the love of my life! He is the most loyal, kindest and caring human being I have ever met. He is the best dad to our daughter Sabina. David’s love for her is fierce and endless. He brings her so much joy and love. The way that she lights up when she sees him is priceless. He is our rock and has shown me what true love truly means. I never have any doubt of his loyalty and unconditional love. I always knew he would be an amazing father. I saw how he was with our nieces and nephews (ages ranging from 4-22 years old) before we adopted Sabina. He is patient, fun, funny and knows how to interact so well with all of the kids in our lives, no matter what age they are. He loves teaching them all how to fish, how to work on cars, play baseball/catch or just have meaningful conversations with them. He is always there for us no matter what!

One of our favorite things to do as a family is to go on vacation. Our favorite place to visit is Hawaii! We love hanging out at the beach building sand castles and splashing around the beach and pool. We also like to go up to our family cabin in Big Bear to enjoy the lake in the summer with our pontoon boat or jet skiing.

In the winter, we love playing in the snow and building snowmen or making snow angels.

At home, we love taking walks as a family around our neighborhood with our dog, Thalia or going to the park and playing on the swings or going down the slide. David plays softball at a park near the house and we enjoy watching him play and then going to the park afterwards.

On the weekends we love going to the zoo or going to theme parks like Magic Mountain with our annual passes. If the Dodgers are playing, we enjoy watching them on TV or going to the stadium and watching them live.

We are very excited to have a new child be a part of all of our fun family activities!

We live in a family-friendly neighborhood with great schools in Burbank, California. We live about a block from an amazing elementary school and about half a mile from a park that has a great playground, pool and community center that offers kids dance and drama classes, sports and other cool kid activities. We are about 10 minutes away from downtown Burbank that has a mall, many restaurants, shops and movie theaters. We intend to provide our child with the best educational options according to their individual needs and interest as well as let them enjoy being kids and getting involved in sports through the community center or play on the swings or slides in the park. We are about 45 minutes away from the beach and about 2 hours away from one of our favorite places, Big Bear.

Almost 4 years ago, we were chosen to be Sabina’s parents by an amazing couple that wanted her to have a home they were not able to provide. She is the sweetest, funniest, smartest, loving and caring young lady. She keeps us on our toes every day with her witty remarks and has us laughing all the time. She tells us every day that “it is taking too long to meet her baby brother or sister” and can’t wait to share her toys with them.

We both come from happy, healthy and supportive families. Mitzi’s mom and extended family live less than 10 minutes away from us, but her sister and her family live in Austin, Texas. Although we are many miles apart, we are always in touch with them by phone/Facetime/etc. Every summer they come to visit us, especially around the fourth of July, where we typically get together at Mitzi’s mom’s house for a big swimming party. We have fun playing games like Monopoly/Clue/Telestrations or Bingo. We love having our niece and nephews over for sleepovers and watch movies until way past their bed time.

David’s dad and his sister and family live about 15-25 minutes away from us. They come over to our house for our Thanksgiving traditional potluck and we go over to David’s sister’s house for Christmas Day. Throughout the year, we get together for Sunday dinners or watch the girls in their dance recitals or go to the amusement parks together or hang out at the cabin in Big Bear either playing in the snow in the winter time or on the pontoon boat on the lake in the summer time.

They are all excited to expand our family and include them in all the fun activities and traditions we celebrate.

We have many fun family traditions and holidays. On the Fourth of July, we either go to a family swimming party and watch the fireworks at night or watch the fireworks in Big Bear.

For Thanksgiving, we usually host and have a giant potluck. We love playing games, like corn hole or ping pong and do holiday arts and crafts.

Christmas Eve or as we call it “Noche Buena”, we have traditional Cuban food, play games and sing Christmas carols. Christmas Day, we usually go to David’s sister’s house for a matching PJ party, ride bikes and make s’mores.

Thank you so much for reading our profile! We are so grateful that you took the time to get to know us. We wish you peace of mind as you make the choice that is best for you and your baby. Of course, we would be honored if you chose us! If you do, we will be excited to meet you and will be committed to building a comfortable relationship based on trust and understanding. Please know that you have our utmost respect, support and compassion, not only today, but every day moving forward.