We don’t know your story or what you’ve been through. We don’t know your background or where you’re from. But life has brought us together and given us the opportunity to share our story with you. Although we don’t know you, there are a few things we are sure of, which is that you love your child, that you are strong, and that you have great courage because without those things you wouldn’t be reading this. We hope that as you look through this, you see the love we have for each other, our children, our family, and our community. We will channel this love towards you and your child.

We promise to love any child that comes into our family. We promise to provide a safe, compassionate, fun loving, and joyful environment where they can make mistakes and learn from them. We promise to be honest and open with our child about adoption. Our child will always know of your strength and love, and know that you hold a special place in our hearts as well. Besides family, some other things that we feel are most important in life are to be of service to others, be kind and caring to all, and do our best to see the good. We also fill every day with laughter, fun, jokes, and smiles. We raise Bryce with these values, and we promise to raise all of our children with these values. We thank you for your willingness to consider us to raise your child; we are so grateful that you are here. No matter which path or family you choose, we thank you for taking the time to learn more about us.

We met in 2014 through a dating app. Yes, apparently you can find love online! Since our first date, we’ve been inseparable. We got married in 2018 on a beach in Mexico. It was an exciting destination wedding surrounded by 50 of our closest family and friends. After getting married, we bought a fixer-upper house and have been doing fun home renovations on the house ever since. When we became parents in 2021, we learned how to juggle busy parent life with time for our relationship. This balance continues today where we eat meals together, have game nights, go for a run together, work on home projects, and make sure we carve out time to talk, laugh, cry, and relax.

Some of our adventures throughout the years include:
• Tough Mudder, running half marathons, hiking
• Concerts – Thomas Rhett, Russel Dickerson, Cole Swindell, Dustin Lynch
• Plays/Musicals – Hamilton, Lion King, Aladdin, Frozen
• Live Comedy Shows – Trevor Noah, Amy Schumer, Aziz Ansari, Jim Gaffigan, Sebastian Maniscalco, Tracy Morgan
• Visiting various beaches along the east coast
• Cirque du Soleil shows

Like many of the other stories you may read, our journey to parenthood has been filled with challenges. After lots of trying and two years of fertility treatments, we were finally blessed with the birth of our son, Bryce. Unfortunately, during Bryce’s birth, he contracted an infection which forced him to spend the first ten days of his life in the NICU. Those ten days were very challenging for our family. Fortunately, he fully recovered and we were so grateful to all go home together as a family.

We always knew we wanted multiple children, so when we began trying to conceive another child, we expected to go through many long rounds of fertility treatments like we did with Bryce. Instead, we were overcome with joy when we miraculously got pregnant naturally. After a normal pregnancy, Amber gave birth to our incredible daughter, Daisy. However, unexpectedly during the delivery, there were complications and Daisy suffered a severe brain injury called HIE. She was transported to the same NICU where Bryce had been years earlier. We were able to spend every day with Daisy, splitting our time with Bryce at home and Daisy in the hospital. Daisy passed away from complications of the brain injury at six weeks old. Although Daisy is no longer physically with us, she is weaved into our lives in countless ways.

Our fertility struggles, difficult deliveries, NICU experiences, and loss of Daisy have led us to decide not to have more biological children. However, as difficult as these experiences have been for us, we are stronger partners and more inspired parents because of the hardships we have been through. We continue to have the desire to grow our family, and so we have entered our adoption journey. We are excited to see our family grow and have much more love to give.

We promise to love any child that comes into our family. We promise to provide a safe, compassionate, fun-loving, and joyful environment where they can make mistakes and learn from them. We promise to be honest and open with our child about adoption. Our child will always know of your strength and love, and know that you hold a special place in our hearts as well. Besides family, some other things that we feel are most important in life are to be of service to others, be kind and caring to all, and do our best to see the good. We also fill every day with laughter, fun, jokes, and smiles. We raise Bryce with these values, and we promise to raise all of our children with these values. We thank you for your willingness to consider us to raise your child; we are so grateful that you are here. No matter which path or family you choose, we thank you for taking the time to learn more about us.