We are very excited to share our family with you.

We imagine that the moments that brought you to this moment have been full of emotions, and we have deep empathy for what you have gone through and the decisions you’ve faced. As you consider this profile and our story, we want you to know that we will love your child with our full hearts, and we will raise them to have every opportunity and every possibility we know you would want for them. We will cherish them and nurture them along the path to discover who they are, what makes them unique, special, and very loved.

This profile is for you to get to know us, our families, our lives, and who we are as a couple. If our paths align, we would be so excited to meet you!

We are each other’s best friends, and our family is filled with love, joy, adventure, learning, and laughter.

We met as teachers in Oklahoma. Matt was a middle school teacher and had a classroom across the hall from Elizabeth, who taught the 5th grade. We fell in love with each other’s desire to help others and a shared love of learning and education.

We poured our entire selves into that school. Matt wrote and directed the school plays and gave students who were normally forgotten a chance to show their talents. Elizabeth would stay after school to be the champion of kids who struggled and always ensured that they never felt alone. Everything she did was to ensure that every student felt cared for and safe.

Our time as teachers taught us that a lot of smart kids are overlooked because they don’t know all the rules of school, and sometimes they need one adult to advocate, care, and help them navigate a system that wasn’t set up to help them. We take that mentality into our work now, how we interact with our nieces, and how we will parent in the future.

We faced some hard times early in our marriage, and we were uncertain that it was wise to bring a child into that environment. We both invested in working through these tough times together, and we grew and evolved in a similar direction. Through the tough times, we emerged stronger as a couple and more confident than ever that we would be married forever, and we wanted to grow our family by having children.

We struggled for many years to conceive children naturally, and while the decision to stop trying was filled with some grief, it also came with relief that there were other paths to achieving our original intention – adding children to our family. Like early in our marriage, we faced this head-on and together. We both have wonderful friends and family who are adopted or have adopted children, and we put our full hearts into this decision.

Supporting each other’s dreams is very important, and we are certain that adoption is how we want to grow our family.

We know with certainty that adopting children is how we want to become parents, and we promise that our child will be surrounded by a loving family who cherishes them and provides them with a lifetime of support.

We promise to create a home full of joy, laughter, love, and stability. We commit to understanding our child’s talents and struggles so that we can support them in the unique and individualized ways that match their specific personalities. We will not shy away from addressing difficult moments or emotions. We will teach our child the skills and tools to navigate these moments, and we will stand alongside them every step of the way. We promise to give them a loving home with caring parents. They will have a family who will support and celebrate them throughout their entire lives.