Bob and Lisa Canavan

Hi! We are Bob & Lisa Canavan from Phoenix, Arizona. We are truly excited to join with you in your incredible journey of open adoption. Our sincere admiration for your strength and courage is one that will continue as you travel on this journey. We value and respect you in your consideration to provide your child with a loving family and we are honored by your choice to get to know us. We understand that your consideration is one of deep emotion and love. We wish to provide you with the supportive reassurance that your child's life with us will always be an extension of your love and commitment to provide for his/her well-being. We hope to show you how loving and welcoming we are and how our
deep desire to become parents has led us to you.
— Bob & Lisa Canavan

We met through a mutual friend and have fallen deeper in
love every day since. We have just celebrated our 22nd
wedding anniversary. Our strong marriage is based on the
deep love and mutual respect of each other. Bob's career is
well established as a Senior Computer Analyst and Lisa has
served as a professional Nanny for the past 15 years. We long to welcome a child into our hearts and become parents. For Lisa, this will be a wonderful privilege of fulfilling her lifetime dream of being a STAY-AT-HOME MOM!
We both look forward to the joys of parenthood: family
vacations, baking cookies & playing board games...going on
nature walks...bath time, bedtime, story time...creating
scrapbooks of wonderful memories...being there for one
another...growing in our lives, our family and our love!

Bob is the love of my life. He is the kindest, most
dependable person I know. He is also a kid-at-heart. At
family gatherings he is the uncle playing Lego blocks with
the kids & racing to see who can build the tallest castle. With the older nieces and nephews, he is the "the man" to beat at a game of Chess or Risk. I enjoy overhearing the
conversations that inevitably ensue especially among the
teens. Bob is able to listen and carefully discern matters of the heart and respond with care and gentle guidance. Bob’s ability to relate with children of all ages is evident through his playful spirit, intellectual prowess, along side his whimsical and wise character. I am so excited to start a family with him! He will be an extraordinary father and role model. I can only imagine the love and devotion that Bob will give our child! In his spare time, Bob loves to read, playcomputer games and cheer for his favorite football team.

Early in our relationship I realized that sharing her love with children is what Lisa does best. Whether it's cheering for our nieces and nephews at their sporting events or speaking with them on the phone, our time together is often centered on the children in our family. Our dinner conversations are peppered with the daily antidotes of the little ones; a first crawl, learning to stand and first words. I admire her passion and dedication with which she has cared for and celebrated other's children and I can only imagine the beauty and amazement of watching her gleam with joy over our own child. I truly look forward to the day we are sitting around the dinner table and she is sharing with me the day's events of our own child's life moments