Shawn Bollig and Joe Welborn

Hello, and thanks for visiting our page. We're Joe and Shawn from Denver, Colorado. We respect that you are considering adoption for your baby and hope we can be there for you. Life as a couple over the past nine years has been good to us. We're lucky to live in a large, diverse city with plenty to do and are also very close to the Rocky Mountains. We have fun going to concerts, camping, and attending Denver's many outdoor cultural events. Our jobs as teachers allow us to spend our breaks from school together. Having visited many foreign countries, we look forward to sharing such travel experiences with our child. We will do everything we possibly can to make sure that the baby we adopt has many opportunities and a great life. If you would like to talk, feel free to call us or you can also email us at joeshawn@joeshawn.com.

We are fortunate to have large and supportive families living in the Denver area. Our son or daughter will be welcomed by many grandparents, aunts, uncles, and cousins who couldn't be more excited for us to be parents. Our friends are also a huge part of our lives and many of them have recently had children. We have a great time together hanging out at BBQs, skiing in the mountains, and going to concerts in City Park. Our moms are eager to spoil their grandchild and there are many playmates ready to run around!

We have owned our house for seven years during which time we have made many improvements and additions. Our historic neighborhood in Denver, Colorado is a perfect place to raise a child. We are located only eight blocks from an incredible park and twenty minutes from the foothills of the Rocky Mountains. Denver was rated one of "America's 10 Best Places to Grow Up" by US News and World Report and we agree! With 300 days of sunshine a year, we will have a great time with our little one exploring the outdoors and riding bikes as a family. Bringing a baby into our cozy home would be such an amazing gift.

Both of us are well established in our careers as public school teachers. Shawn teaches reading and writing as an elementary school teacher and teaches Irish dance on the side. Joe is a high school math teacher and works with a program to help first generation students get into college. Between the two of us, we have worked with kids of every age from kindergarten through 12th grade which will help us be prepared as our baby grows up. Teaching is a great profession for both of us because it is very rewarding and we love to be with kids. We value education greatly and have both completed our Master’s degrees in Education.