We are Justin and Emily. We are so grateful to share with you about our family. We are excited to grow our family through the gift of adoption, and we want you to know that a child’s birth mother will always be loved and honored in our home. We hope to adopt a baby girl to love and spoil!

Our story began in the summer of 2010. We met through mutual friends who had been trying to set us up for two years and once we finally met, we never looked back. We got engaged in December 2011 in New York City by the Christmas tree in Rockefeller Plaza. Then, we married in September 2012 surrounded by family and friends. 

We had our first miracle baby, Jace, in 2015. Then, we suffered another miscarriage in 2016 before we welcomed our second miracle, Jax, in 2017. Our boys have been an answer to so many prayers and we are so grateful to God for his faithfulness. 

Justin: “The first night I met Emily, I knew we would spend the rest of our lives together. She’s smart, funny, and has a beautiful heart. Emily loves hard, feels deeply, and genuinely cares about people. She loves the Lord and her faith is very important to her. Our kids are her life. She strives to be intentional with parenting and loves to make our kid's childhood special. Watching her with our children gives me so much joy and I can’t wait to see her live out our dream of having a daughter.” 

Emily: “I have been a Registered Nurse for 10 years. I started my career in Oncology, which is one of the most challenging yet beautiful experiences. After having children, I transitioned into caring for mothers and babies. My true passion is supporting and empowering women and I am now a licensed lactation consultant providing private in-home consults with mothers and their new babies for a few hours each week. I can work just a few hours each week and plan to be home for a full year once we adopt.

Emily’s Hobbies

• Decorating
• Reading
• Entertaining/hosting
• Crafting with the kids
• Making family memories

Justin: “I have been employed with the same company for 20 years and currently work in sales. I enjoy my job, and it provides great financial stability for my family while giving me a very flexible schedule. 

Emily: “Justin is a dream of a husband and the kind of dad that every child deserves. He’s a family man who leads and serves us so well. He has a strong moral compass and faith in God. His sense of humor and positivity are contagious. I swear that man can find a silver lining no matter what you throw his way. Justin can be playful but also works hard to provide for our family. He’s super-dad in our eyes and I can’t wait to see him wrapped around the finger of a baby girl.”

Justin’s Hobbies

• Building
• Coaching little league baseball
• Watching comedy and sports
• Grilling 

We have two boys, ages seven and five, and they make our world go ‘round! They are so full of life (and energy). They keep us laughing and keep us on our toes! They are very different from one another and each so special.

Jace, 7, is our creative boy. He loves to draw, do crafts, and sing. He has the sweetest spirit and a heart of pure gold. He loves animals and enjoys snuggling with our dog Mila every chance he gets! He has his daddy’s gentle soul and mama’s strong will.

Jax, 5, is our athletic boy and wants to play every sport there is. He is tough, fearless, and ALL boy! He is outgoing, funny, and such a free spirit. He loves hard like his mama and is a friend to all like his daddy. 

We always want to provide a home where our kids are secure in who they are and know that our love for them is unconditional. We celebrate their uniqueness and embrace who they are and the things they love. 

Home is our favorite place to be! We live in a two-story, five-bedroom brick home with a huge fenced-in backyard with room to run, play and swing. Our house is situated right across the street from the neighborhood park and pool. We have an open floor plan with a large kitchen that everyone tends to gravitate to when we entertain. We are HUGE holiday enthusiasts, and the house is decked out for every season. We love a reason to celebrate!

Whether it’s a puzzle on the kitchen table, a craft on the island, or toys on the living room floor, it’s important to us that our kids enjoy our home and make lots of memories here.

Our neighborhood is one that every child would love to grow up in. There are always kids playing in the yard, golf carts on the road, and food trucks at the clubhouse. Movie Night in the park is a favorite! We have a large group of friends in the neighborhood who come over for cookouts, holiday parties, and playdates. They have become a lot like family to us! 

People are the most important things in our lives and we are surrounded by some pretty amazing ones. Justin is the oldest of two and Emily is the oldest of four. We have three sets of grandparents and two sets of great-grandparents who adore their grandbabies and can't wait to add a baby girl! Our family all live within an hour from us with some living a quick 15 minutes down the road. We talk to our family often and love getting everyone together for holidays and birthday celebrations.

As a family, we love to travel and try new things but more than anything we love to be at home together. We enjoy the simple things like special playtime. It is our kiddos’ favorite time of day. It is 20-30 minutes of whatever the kids want to do. Hide-and-seek, jumping on the trampoline, playing games…we’ve made so many great memories as a family that we will cherish forever.

Emily considers herself a professional celebrator, so with that comes lots of fun and traditions... 

Our Favorite Traditions

• Birthdays are “YES days” 
• Beach trips in the summer and Mountain get-always in the winter
• Fourth of July party with fireworks with neighborhood friends
• Pumpkin patch and carving in the fall
• Christmas trees go up on November 1 (all 15 of them)
• Thanksgiving meal for just our family. We started this tradition before having kids, vowing to perfect every dish. It has become something we look forward to all year! 
• Milk and cookies with Santa at our home at the start of each December 
• Christmas puzzle on the table that we work on a little each night during the season.

You matter to us. Please know that we think of you often and pray for you daily, as you navigate this time in your life. Our prayer for you is that you feel supported and confident in your decisions. We pray that you feel God's love and the peace that only He can give. 

We are hopeful and excited for the opportunity to develop relationships through the gift of open adoption. Adoption is such a beautiful picture of the most sacrificial kind of love. Regardless of the amount of openness you choose, you can be sure that your daughter will always know how fully and selflessly you love her. We will tell her the story of her adoption from the time she’s a baby so that it is always her normal. 

We are so grateful that you took the time to get to know a little about us and are honored that you would consider our family. We can’t promise that we are perfect parents. But what we can promise is that if chosen, we will love and protect your child fiercely. We promise to treasure her, celebrate her, and give her the best life we have to offer. You can be sure that she will grow up in a loving home with Christ at the center of it all.

We promise that you will always be loved, honored, and respected in our home. 

Emily and Justin