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Tyler & Will
OUR PROMISE TO YOU:
If we have the joy and privilege of welcoming your baby into our family, we promise to love them unconditionally for the rest of our lives and to always be there to support them. We promise to provide them with a safe, peaceful, and comfortable home, and to surround them with a loving circle of family and friends. We promise to provide them with an excellent education. We promise to celebrate and honour their adoption story and birth family. And we promise to give them the sweetest big sister ever, our one-year-old daughter Leela, who we adopted last year.
ABOUT US:
We are a married couple in our mid-30s (Will is 34, Tyler is 35) with a beautiful one-year-old daughter named Leela who we adopted through Sunrise last year, as well as a sweet 3.5-year-old dog (an English cocker spaniel) named Scout.
We met and started dating in 2016, got engaged in 2020, and got married in 2022. Scout was our wedding present to each other and joined our family as a puppy right after our wedding in 2022. In 2023, we purchased and moved into our house in North Vancouver. In early 2025, our lives changed forever when we adopted Leela shortly after she was born. We have absolutely loved being her parents and we are hoping to continue to grow our family through adoption.
In terms of education and career, we each graduated from the same university (but didn’t meet each other until after graduation) and have each built careers in the tech industry. We each currently work from home and have the help of a wonderful nanny to look after Leela during the daytime while we are working. Tyler is an operations executive at his company. Will was most recently a software engineering manager, but left that role last year to run his own investment corporation.
We enjoy taking Leela to fun activities (swimming lessons, “baby gymnastics,” music class, etc); visiting with our extended family and friends (a lot of whom have young children who Leela plays with); trying out new restaurants; and exploring the beautiful outdoors of British Columbia on family walks and hikes.
ABOUT OUR FAMILY:
Our one-year-old daughter Leela joined our family through adoption in early 2025, shortly after she was born. She is a source of so much joy in our lives, with a playful, curious, giggly, and loving little personality. We know she will be an amazing big sister.
Tyler’s parents and all four of his grandparents live in our neighbourhood, all just a 2-3 minute drive away. Leela has grown close to all of them by seeing them often, especially Tyler’s parents, who drop by our house frequently to spend time with her and help babysit when needed.
Will’s parents live outside of BC but come to visit us often. We took Leela to visit them for a week recently. Will’s grandmother (his only living grandparent) was able to come visit and spend a week with Leela this year as well. To keep in touch despite living far away, we do a lot of video calls with Will’s family.
Leela has been the first grandchild for both of our sets of parents, and it has been special to watch them become grandparents. They are in love with Leela, and they are excited about us potentially welcoming another baby into the family soon.
In addition to our parents and grandparents, we each have large and loving families, including Will’s brother and sister, Tyler’s brother, and their wonderful partners. We also each have quite a few aunts, uncles, cousins, and cousins’ kids — some who live near us and some who don’t — who make holidays and family weddings fun, loud, and happy times to be together.
OUR HOME & COMMUNITY:
We own a four-bedroom, single-family home with a fenced backyard in North Vancouver, in the same neighbourhood where Tyler grew up and where much of his family still lives. We live on a quiet street with views of the mountains to the north and the Vancouver city skyline to the south. We have gotten to know & become friends with many of our neighbours.
We are a short walk to the local, top-rated elementary and high schools, as well as to a creek and trail area where we take Scout on daily walks. We are a 3-minute drive to a walkable village centre with a grocery store, shops, and restaurants.
OPENNESS:
We believe that an open adoption with ongoing contact can be a wonderful thing for all of the parties involved in an adoption (the child and the birth and adoptive parents), and we are very much supportive of an open adoption.
However, we also understand that you may have your own preferences about openness, and we want to make sure we understand and respect these preferences. We look forward to discussing this together and coming up with a practical plan that works for you — whether that looks like regular calls and/or visits, periodic photos and updates, or something else.
Regardless of the level of ongoing contact that is best for you, we will always honour and celebrate you in conversations with our child. Additionally, we will always honour and celebrate their heritage. For example, with Leela, because she is of Punjabi Sikh heritage, we celebrate Diwali and Vaisekhi, read her books with Punjabi words in them, and enjoy lots of delicious Indian food together.
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