Hello,

We are Sean and Brooke. We are looking to adopt an infant here in the United States. We have completed our Home Study and we are currently working with an agency in Virginia.

Here are 10 facts about us:

1. We both grew up in Virginia and have lived in our house since 2016, which is also in Virginia. The baby will have their own nursery/bedroom which is right down the hall from our bedroom. We have already filled it with family heirlooms and things we have collected (books, childhood toys, and more).

2. We both plan to continue to work after we start raising a child. Brooke is the program director of a preschool, which is where the baby will go when she works. If either of us is off for the day, the baby will stay home with them. We both value time together and want the child we raise to be apart of that.

3. We want to continue to visit family and travel with the child we raise. We know it will not be as frequent when they are younger but we want to share the world with them.

4. We have a lot of littles (younger children) in our family, so the baby will have lots of cousins and friends to grow up with. We both grew up spending a lot of time with family and we plan to continue that.

5. Our family is so understanding of what adoption is. We have 2 cousins that have been adopted into the family.

6. We both grew up with parents with strong core values like being respectful, teamwork makes the dream work, be generous with what we have, be kind to everyone, and always be open-minded.

7. We plan on telling the child we raise from the very beginning about being adopted. One of our biggest family values is being open and honest and we will continue that with them.

8. We are open to any form of communication that a birth family is open to.

9. We want the child we raise to be able to dream and explore what they love. We will support and encourage whatever dreams they want to pursue and any activity they want to try.

10. We are open and willing to discuss the name for the child with the expectant parents.

We met over ten years ago at church camp. We clicked right away and became great friends. Over the next few years we saw each other almost every summer. One summer, we both came back to camp and spent all of our free time together. We couldn't get enough of each other. We both loved music and making each other laugh. We started dating and getting to know each other's families right away.

We got engaged in a cabin in Tennessee while on a trip with Sean's family. It was so special to be able to share that moment with them. We were married 2 years after our engagement which gave us time to graduate from college and plan our future. We got married on July 4th, 2015, in a gazebo next to the lake close to our town and we were surrounded by all the people we love. Our relationship continues to strengthen as we grow in our careers, as individuals, and as a team. Though our infertility journey was difficult, it taught us to be each other's rock and that we can make it through anything together.