More About Us

Our Life Together

We have been married for 14 years after dating for 4 years. We have been together for so long because we have built our relationship on love, respect, trust and friendship. We have grown from friends to best friends and committed partners in life. We find that we are compatible in so many ways. We have few disagreements in our marriage, and the few that we do have are easily resolved with our ability to compromise. We share all the responsibilities in our marriage and caring for our child will be no exception. One common goal of our marriage has been to have children. After a few years of unsuccessfully trying to conceive, we have fully embraced adoption as our path to parenthood. Our plan is to adopt two children to complete our family.

A devotion to family is the centerpiece of our lives. We consider ourselves fortunate to have come from families that loved us and supported us in every facet of our lives. From this background, we formed our vision of what our family would be like and are anxious to share not only our love with a child, but our entire family with them as well.

We share a closeness and friendship with our family despite the fact that our families live six hours away. We see each other several times a year. We go to see them for all the major holidays, they make frequent trips to our house, and we meet for weekend getaways a few times each year. Both families are very supportive of us adopting a child and are looking forward to welcoming a new baby into the family.

We have a wonderful cat named Snoopy and a little bird named Harry. Snoopy feels she owns the house and sometimes we feel more like her pets than her owners! Harry frequently acts bigger and tougher than his four-inch height would suggest and tries to assert that he owns the place. They are also looking forward to a new family member, they just don’t know it yet!

We enjoy traveling and try to take one big trip every year. Up to this point our trips have focused on popular sightseeing and historical destinations like Washington D.C., New York City, Boston, San Diego, Chicago, and the Bahamas. Many of the trips involve a visit to a zoo or animal park because we both love animals. Now we are looking forward to going to some of the more popular family destinations like Disneyland and SeaWorld!

We both believe that giving back to the community is important. Over the years we have volunteered our time for several causes and attended several fund-raising events. We hope to pass on this value to our child.

Our Home

Our home is in a medium size city in South Dakota. South Dakota has very little crime so it is a great place to raise children. Our community has everything that a suburb of a large city would have. We live within a few blocks of an elementary school, a beautiful park, a swimming pool, and a library. Our neighborhood is filled with children so our child will always have plenty of playmates close by.

Our home has six bedrooms, so we have plenty of room for children and for our families to come visit them.

We purchased the home thinking that it was a great house to raise a family with three bedrooms on the main floor, two of which were decorated for kids. We are currently redecorating one of the rooms and have filled it with baby furniture. We still plan on painting it and adding a matching border while we wait for a baby to arrive.

Our Parenting Philosophy

We imagine that it is important to you that you understand how we will parent a child. We will provide them with a happy, secure home filled with love, warmth, and laughter. We will do our best to teach them some of the same things we hold dear: kindness, generosity, respect for others, loyalty, morality, hard work, honesty, and the importance of family and education. We will give them every opportunity that life has to offer and the confidence to reach their full potential. We will be active in all parts of their life – their school activities, teams, interests and hobbies. We want to share our hobbies with them in hope that they will share our love of those hobbies. We will be there for them for the rest of our lives and will do anything for them. We know that your child will inherit special gifts from you and we will help them embrace those gifts. Our current plans are for both of us to continue working after a couple months of bonding time. We will choose a daycare that provides a loving, caring environment that combines fun with education.

We promise that your child will understand and respect your selflessness and will know the love and consideration that you showed in making an adoption plan. Your child will grow up knowing that they are not only loved by us and our families, but also by the parents that gave life to them. We will share their adoption story starting early in life and continuing with more detail as they grow.

We hope this profile helped you learn about us and what we value. We are here to help provide support to you if you desire it. Your decision to place your child into our lives would be the most special gift that anyone could ever give us and would be an answer to our prayers. We would be forever grateful to you for such a precious gift.

If you would like more information about us or would like to contact us, please call us at 1-800-806-2436 (pin #00) or use this link to send us email. If you would feel more comfortable speaking with our adoption coordinator you can call Julie at 1-888-201-5061.

Jeff and Lisa