Family and Friends Our families have always been an important part of our lives and everyone is excited about a new baby. We have close relationships with our combined total of eleven nieces and nephews and have been entrusted to be emergency legal guardians for four of them. We have developed an amazing and supportive group of friends over the years and we consider them to be our extended family. We are actively involved in the lives of our close friends' children and enjoy spending time with them at the park, swimming, or just hanging out and playing at home. Although we know that parenting our own child will be different, our experience with and knowledge about children gives us a great deal of confidence in our abilities to be good parents.