About Me


My name is Jennifer Ann Holt.  I grew up as a farm girl in Enterprise, Utah, so I have lots of experience moving sprinkler pipe and mucking out calf pens.  I can hold my own when handling a tractor as well.  I have always loved reading and really like the power of the written word to heal, provide comfort and understanding, and uplift. 

I graduated Cum Laude from Brigham Young University in December 1998 with a degree in Physical Education / Physical Therapy Emphasis.  In March of 1999 I married my wonderful husband and we started our life together.

After a couple years of marriage, and without having had a successful pregnancy, we began pursuing both adoption and increasingly aggressive fertility treatments.  We were blessed to be chosen by an amazing birth mom, and we adopted our beautiful daughter as a newborn.  Following several failed adoption attempts, and several more years of fertility treatments (including a couple of surgeries) I became pregnant with our youngest son.  We were waiting to update our adoption portfolio until after the first trimester to make sure the pregnancy was going to stick, and when I was just about a week shy of that 12-week mark, a wonderful birth mom picked us as the family for her soon-to-be-born baby boy. 

She didn't mind that I was pregnant, she felt strongly that her baby boy was to join our family, and he did!  We were excited at the prospect of our two boys only being 6 months apart.  Then, my pregnancy took a nose dive.  I developed severe toxemia almost overnight and had a mini stroke.  In addition, we discovered that the cord was wrapped around the baby's neck 3 times.  So, in order to save both of our lives, my doctor performed an emergency c-section and delivered our 2 lb. 8 oz. son about 3 months early.  I was very blessed to recover with only some slight numbness on the left side of my face.  And after spending 8 1/2 weeks in the Newborn Intensive Care Unit, and undergoing numerous blood transfusions, a surgery, and many scary moments, our youngest was able to come home and join his big brother and sister.

Today, my husband and I have three wonderfully healthy, happy children (including our two boys who are 3 months apart), and we feel at peace that all of the members of our family are here.

I love to speak about adoption and infertility, particularly about adopting and raising a multi-racial family and also about finding hope and healing through the Atonement of Jesus Christ.  I must say that my family did not come in the way I always thought it would, but I have had some priceless experiences as my family came in accordance with my Heavenly Father's will, and it is better than I ever imagined!