Letter
Our Why
We are both so grateful for your courage and whatever decision your make, and we have so much respect for you and your family and support system.
Even before we were married, we talked about our plans to build a family through adoption.
Dear Expectant Parent,
We both have reflected on our experiences with adoption as we were writing to you and thinking about your family. While reflecting, Stacie and I spoke about one of her childhood friends who was adopted. She always wondered why her friend's birth parents had placed her for adoption. We talked about how she quickly learned the bravery and strength that the birth parents had to have made such a loving choice to place their daughter for adoption. Even though it was a closed adoption, Stacie's friend found her birth parents when she was 18 and has a great relationship with them to this day. We both believe that family is created in all kinds of ways and at different points in life. We both have seen the way that adoption has created families into our adult life through experiences with other friends and co-workers. We are both so grateful for your courage and whatever decision your make, and we have so much respect for you and your family and support system. We can't wait to get to know you and to create whatever our version of family our journey together will look like.
We are hoping to start our family through adoption. We always knew that there might not be a possibility for us to have our own biological children. Even before we were married, we talked about our plans to build a family through adoption. After not being able to conceive naturally we spent some time to heal and are now ready to adopt with open hearts. We have a lot of love, laughter and life to share with a child. Our cat and dog (who are also both adopted from shelters) are also ready to be big sisters!
We both have reflected on our experiences with adoption as we were writing to you and thinking about your family. While reflecting, Stacie and I spoke about one of her childhood friends who was adopted. She always wondered why her friend's birth parents had placed her for adoption. We talked about how she quickly learned the bravery and strength that the birth parents had to have made such a loving choice to place their daughter for adoption. Even though it was a closed adoption, Stacie's friend found her birth parents when she was 18 and has a great relationship with them to this day. We both believe that family is created in all kinds of ways and at different points in life. We both have seen the way that adoption has created families into our adult life through experiences with other friends and co-workers. We are both so grateful for your courage and whatever decision your make, and we have so much respect for you and your family and support system. We can't wait to get to know you and to create whatever our version of family our journey together will look like.
We are hoping to start our family through adoption. We always knew that there might not be a possibility for us to have our own biological children. Even before we were married, we talked about our plans to build a family through adoption. After not being able to conceive naturally we spent some time to heal and are now ready to adopt with open hearts. We have a lot of love, laughter and life to share with a child. Our cat and dog (who are also both adopted from shelters) are also ready to be big sisters!
Our Story
We make time for each other every day no matter how hectic our days become.
Being able to "date" each other is very important to both of us and making time for each other in addition to time spent with friends and family.
Our story starts with Stacie moving to Texas in December of 2020. Without that move we may not have this story to tell! We met the traditional way these days on an online dating app called Match.com. When we met, we both had fun but didn't know what to think of each other. Charlie won't tell you this, but he was in the friend zone for quite some time! He'll also tell you Stacie couldn't keep his hands off him, but that is not true either! The more and more we hung out the more we realized we had a lot in common and we complement each other with our differences. We were fortunate that we also got to travel together early on in our relationship (Hawaii, California, Idaho, and Oregon to name a few places) and spend time with each other's friends and family which means a lot to both of us. Everyone says that when you meet "the one" you know, and that person makes you change willingly for the better. We can definitely say that something brought Stacie to Texas for a reason, and we believe it's because it was time for us to find our soul mate in each other. We got married in August of 2022 in, Montana. Our wedding venue was a very beautiful authentic barn built about 100 years ago and refurbished into an event venue. It was absolutely amazing. It even had a working grain silo door that opened up on the upper floor. Even though we have been together a relatively short period of time we have realized the power of faith and communication in our relationship. We make time for each other every day no matter how hectic our days become. We often use a dry erase board in our home to set our schedule for the week including who cooks and feeds the animals and to put date nights on the schedule!! Being able to "date" each other is very important to both of us and making time for each other in addition to time spent with friends and family. Our dog Kaiden was adopted in October of 2014. Kaiden is 9 years old. We adopted our cat Kenzy in December of 2022. Kenzy is a little over a year old.
Our Adventures
Some fun activities we have done is a cooking class, a murder mystery dinner, yoga, a cold plunge, kayaking, ghost tours, wine tasting and country western dancing.
We intend to take an international trip every 3 years approximately (maybe more) and would love that our adventures would include a child.
In the past, Stacie has had to travel a considerable amount for work. For Charlie, he had barely made it out of the State of Texas prior to us meeting.
Since we have been together, we have been fortunate enough to travel a considerable amount. These trips include destinations of Missouri, South Carolina, Tennessee, Arizona, Oklahoma, Montana, Idaho, Washington, California, and even Hawaii!!! We were lucky enough to travel internationally for our honeymoon in which we visited France and Portugal. This was Charlie's first time to Europe. Stacie has traveled previously to the countries of Japan, New Zealand, Mexico, Italy, and Canada.
Places on our bucket list include Spain, South America, Turkey, South Africa, Australia, Germany, Poland, and the Nordic Countries of Europe. We intend to take an international trip every 3 years approximately (maybe more) and would love that our adventures would include a child.
Besides travel, we try to stay active and try new things. Some fun activities we have done is a cooking class, a murder mystery dinner, yoga, a cold plunge, kayaking, ghost tours, wine tasting and country western dancing. We even played a round of golf together and visited an active volcano in Hawaii.
Since we have been together, we have been fortunate enough to travel a considerable amount. These trips include destinations of Missouri, South Carolina, Tennessee, Arizona, Oklahoma, Montana, Idaho, Washington, California, and even Hawaii!!! We were lucky enough to travel internationally for our honeymoon in which we visited France and Portugal. This was Charlie's first time to Europe. Stacie has traveled previously to the countries of Japan, New Zealand, Mexico, Italy, and Canada.
Places on our bucket list include Spain, South America, Turkey, South Africa, Australia, Germany, Poland, and the Nordic Countries of Europe. We intend to take an international trip every 3 years approximately (maybe more) and would love that our adventures would include a child.
Besides travel, we try to stay active and try new things. Some fun activities we have done is a cooking class, a murder mystery dinner, yoga, a cold plunge, kayaking, ghost tours, wine tasting and country western dancing. We even played a round of golf together and visited an active volcano in Hawaii.
Our Promise
We promise to give your child a loving, fun, stable home filled with encouragement for them to grow into whoever they are meant to be!!
Your child is a blessing and a gift to our family and will be treated so each and every day.
Just as we made a promise to each other on our wedding day, we make a similar promise to you, your family and your child. We will parent your child and understand from you what type of openness you would want with our families. Charlie believes his role as a father is to be a safety net for his children and provide them with a safe place to grow. Stacie sees her role as a mother to raise a child who is caring and good to others.
We both want to raise your child to have a family of their own someday, instilling family values and helping them to build healthy relationships and make healthy decisions in their lives. We hope to raise your child to be outgoing like Charlie and caring towards others like Stacie. It is also important for us to involve your child in our passions such as volunteer actives so they can develop an awareness of other's and even other cultures around the world. Your child is a blessing and a gift to our family and will be treated so each and every day.
We promise to give your child a loving, fun, stable home filled with encouragement for them to grow into whoever they are meant to be!!
We both want to raise your child to have a family of their own someday, instilling family values and helping them to build healthy relationships and make healthy decisions in their lives. We hope to raise your child to be outgoing like Charlie and caring towards others like Stacie. It is also important for us to involve your child in our passions such as volunteer actives so they can develop an awareness of other's and even other cultures around the world. Your child is a blessing and a gift to our family and will be treated so each and every day.
We promise to give your child a loving, fun, stable home filled with encouragement for them to grow into whoever they are meant to be!!