All About Ruben & Silvia

Hi! We are Ruben and Silvia and we are happy to meet you. We would like to thank you for visiting our profile. We understand this is not an easy decision. Whatever your next steps may be, we wholeheartedly respect you. We thank you for choosing life for your baby and are honored that you are viewing our profile and considering us as parents. We will provide your baby a life of love, growth, and happiness. He or she will be our sole priority. 

We are a married couple and live in sunny Southern California. We are both hardworking, loving, energetic, enthusiastic, and family driven. Both of our families and parents live nearby and we are both very close with them. Together we have grown to value our Christian/Catholic faith, our Latino/Hispanic culture, our friends, family, and neighbors, and love for one another. 

ABOUT SILVIA    

My name is Silvia and I was born and raised in Los Angeles, California. I grew up in a home with my parents, grandmother, a brother and a sister. I am a first generation Guatemalan-American. My parents came from Guatemala to this country to provide us with a better life. My parents are hardworking and we didn’t have much growing up. However, we had each other. Strong family bond was instilled in me and my siblings since we were young. My grandmother, Abuelita, was my second mother and helped raise us. To this day, I clean my house with rancheritas and mariachi music in the background— something I picked up from my Abuelita. My parents taught me the value of family, respect, hard work, humility, and strong faith in God.

We are a Catholic Christian family and hold ourselves in our faith in God. I am active in our church and participate in the choir. Singing is like praying twice and I love it! I also volunteer in the church's Share the Blessings Ministry that helps feed the homeless and plans and distributes Thanksgiving meal boxes. 

I am a quirky, loving, empathic, loyal, reliable, hard working person. I love music, the outdoors, hiking, camping, dancing, singing, movies, and spending time with friends and family. I earned my Bachelors of Science in Biology and minor in Chemistry and went on to pursue my Masters of Science degree. I have been working in the medical field for 10 years now as a caregiver to individuals 2 days old to 105 years old. I am grateful to work with a diverse group of friends and colleagues. 

ABOUT RUBEN

I was born and raised in Riverside, California. I come from a large, extended family. My father is one of twelve children, and my mother is one of nine children. My parents and grandparents raised me with my two younger sisters and younger brother, surrounded by our extended family. With such a large, family there were always plenty of birthdays, baptisms, quinceaneras, holidays, feast days and events to go to share and learn about our culture. I have such fond memories. Memories of my grandmother walking us to school, my grandfather teaching me to read, my father teaching me to work, my mother nurturing me lovingly. It’s those foundations that instilled in me a strong sense of doing what is right and desire to create strong familial bonds. 

I work in the food industry as a Quality Manager and have been working in this field for close to 20 years. High quality honey is one of nature's most abundant resource that the company I work for provides.

I have a passion for sports from a young age. Baseball was my favorite sport growing up. It’s often said to be the one sport transmitted from fathers to sons. I remember my father and uncles playing in recreational league games on weekends then running off to play with my cousins on the smaller fields. After the games were over, my father would walk over and talk to me while we played catch. It’s what I would like to one day experience in our own family. The thing I love about sports is what it teaches us: to work together as a team to reach your goals, to experience failure, but to learn from that failure and so you pick yourself up after you have been knocked down, to learn to be resilient. I love my family and friends and want to share our values with our children.