Hi! We’re Ramez and Trevor, and we are so excited to meet you! We feel very lucky to be here and to have the opportunity to introduce ourselves.

Ramez is an Egyptian Canadian engineer and Trevor is an attorney born and raised in West Texas. On paper, we could not be more different, but we share the most important things. We want to be dads more than anything, we want to raise our kids to be kind, loving, and curious about the world around them. Most of all, we share a love that we can’t wait to pass on to our kids. We can’t wait to share all of the laughs, tears, and hugs of life with our family.

We promise you that we will commit everything to raising a family that is centered on love, honesty, and kindness. We also promise to respect you, the person you are, and the decisions you make. As you flip through these pages, we hope that we will be able to provide you with a sense of who we are as a family, and why we are here.

We think you are extremely brave for taking this step and know just how lucky the baby is to have such an amazing birth mother who wants them to be loved and have all the opportunities they deserve. Ultimately, we hope to meet you so we can be there for you throughout this journey.

Our “why” is very simple: we have always wanted to raise kids and have a family. We want to share what we have learned in life and help our kids grow and mature to be exactly who they need to be. We have an unshakeable belief that we are meant to be dads, and that we each have the perfect partner for the journey ahead.

We are uncles to three awesome nieces, Godparents to a few children, and honorary uncles to many of our friends’ kids. We can’t wait to build a family that is full of love and joy and to provide our kids with the warmth and support that we are lucky to have in our lives.

When we think about our future, we hope that it includes a few kids that we can share our love with and grow alongside. We want a family where our children can grow with siblings who will always have their back, someone they can confide in and have as a friend and ally long after we are gone. We want to build a family that gets excited for family dinners, game nights, holidays, and weekends together.

As parents, we will strive to raise kids that want to help make the world better, whether through random acts of kindness, sharing their passion with their community, or just being a good friend.

Our story starts in 2020 on opposite sides of the continent during a global pandemic (boo pandemic!!). Ramez was working 14 hour days trying to lead 40 people and their families through a global crisis while Trevor was spending his days studying just as long. Tinder allowed us to swipe globally and we were being introduced to people around the world (i.e., Australia, Italy, Germany, Ireland, Argentina) until our two small towns, 2,000 miles apart, from Western Canada and Texas collided online.

There was an instant connection that compelled us to get on the phone that same evening. Trevor’s voice was very calming, and Ramez’s maturity helped relax an anxious Trevor. Little did we know that for the next 8 months we would spend 1-2 hours each day on FaceTime getting to know each other. On the weekend we would each order a pizza, get on FaceTime, and synchronize playing the same movie on Netflix (it didn’t always work but we loved every minute of getting to ‘virtually’ be together).

In December of 2020, Ramez flew down to Trevor’s hometown for their first date. Trevor scraped whatever he had left in his bank account as a student and immediately drove Ramez to Santa Fe, New Mexico for 4 days. We stayed in a small adobe home, ate pizza and burritos, and walked around looking at Christmas lights in the snow. In other words, it was a pretty solid first date.

In February 2021, Trevor planned to fly up to Canada to see Ramez but God had other plans. International Covid restrictions and a deadly snowstorm across Texas forced Trevor to cancel his trip. Five months later, Ramez was able to fly down for Trevor’s law school graduation. We then traveled back to Canada to spend the summer exploring while Trevor studied for his bar exam.

At the end of that amazing summer, we didn’t know when we would get to see each other again so it was a tough goodbye. 2 more months passed and Trevor was offered a job to move to a new city in West Texas. About 1 after, Ramez’s company approached him and offered him a job in that exact same city! It was surreal and still hard to believe. Our third date started in December of 2021 when Trevor traveled to Canada to help Ramez pack the house and start the looooong road trip to our new home. We got married in 2023 and our third date is still going strong today. 🙂

We have a strong drive to give back to our community through service, we aim for an annual road trip through new cities to explore the outdoors, and we try to get to the ocean to refresh.

On weekends, we have established a bit of a routine:
Fridays: Disconnect from the work week, order takeout, watch a movie, and relax. This ends with Ramez asleep on the couch by 10pm and Trevor switching to nature shows.
Saturdays: Grab a coffee, a book, and spend a few hours learning something new. We’ll do renovations, work out, and cook new Mediterranean or South Asian recipe together.
Sundays: Go to church and stay for fellowship. We’ve built a wonderful network with our congregation, including our 89 year-old neighbor Johnnye, who often brings us fresh baked bread; she is one of the sweetest people in our lives.

Our holiday traditions vary since our family is spread worldwide:
Thanksgiving: Across both our families in Canada and the USA, our mothers cook a tremendous amount of food… so we eat, watch the dog show, a movie then take a nap.
Christmas: We love to spend time with family or take a road trip. Before leaving, we bake hundreds of banana chocolate chip muffins for our neighbors and wish them well
for the holidays. We also try and catch the local Nutcracker performance!

We are really excited to create new traditions with our children, we want to take them on adventures, ensure they learn and grow to appreciate the diversity of this world and instill a peace and kindness in their hearts that is centered around love.