Waiting Family Profiles

Home Location: Twin Cities Metro

Family Status: Couple without children

Children in Home: None

Child Ethnicity: African American, Asian, Caucasian, East Indian, Hispanic/Latino, Native American

Our Story:

Hello! We are Scott and Kathryn. Our story began in 2000 when Kathryn   started working at a department store where Scott had been working in security. Immediately we hit it off.  We became close friends who were there for each other to share laughs with, go on adventures with, and also as a shoulder to lean on.  This close friendship grew into a more meaningful relationship. During our 12 years of dating we furthered our education and completed an associates degree and 2 bachelor’s degrees between the 2 of us, built a love for travel, and bought our first home together before celebrating our marriage in 2013. We always knew we wanted children together. We share 6 nieces and nephews between our families ranging from 4-21 years old and an additional 7 “nieces and nephews” from our closest friends that we consider family. In the spring of 2018, we designed our forever home and chose our neighborhood for a growing our family. In the fall of 2018, we moved into our newly constructed home and          immediately started to build relationships with others in our neighborhood. We could not be happier and feel more secure in our decision and look forward to the day we can fill our home with children.

Dear Expectant Parent(s),

We are honored that you are taking the time to look at our profile!  We admire your courage and strength in making an adoption plan for your child.  We hope that reviewing our profile will give you an opportunity to get to know us.  We have been together for a little over 19 years, happily married for 7 years.  About a year after we married, we decided to begin our journey in starting a family.  After a few years struggling with infertility, we realized that adoption was an amazing opportunity for us to welcome a child into our family. We would love to create and maintain a strong relationship with you while supporting the level of openness you are comfortable with. We are open and hopeful in creating a bond with you to share precious and fun moments, milestones and pictures along the way. We promise to love and be as committed to your baby as we are to each other, our family and loved ones. We take the commitment of raising a child in a loving home very seriously.  We are eagerly awaiting this next chapter in our lives and are truly excited for the day we are able to call ourselves parents.

Thank you for taking the time in getting to know us. We look forward to hearing from you!

Our Home and Community

We recently built and moved into our new home 2 years ago.  We designed our new home for our growing family and reside in a newly developed community. We love our community we decided to move into. It is full of kids of all ages, close-knit neighbors who spend a lot of time together, and everyone seems to watch out for each other. Within our community we have 2 pools, a big open field for variety of sports and activities, and a park. About 3blocks away is an elementary school and a soon to be built middle school. Our home is in a cul-de-sac which has been a nightly gathering space for the kids and adults playing street hockey, racing remote control cars and neighborhood holiday get togethers.

Hobbies and interests

Together we both really enjoy traveling, camping, hiking, fishing, going to sporting events, skiing, watching    movies and playing games. We love spending time with friends and family every chance we get and when time allows. We have a love for nature and being active but also crave our lazy days and nights sitting on the couch spending time together. We also have our individual interests. Scott enjoys watching and playing any type of sports, particularly hockey and golf. He also enjoys hunting, concerts, and woodworking. Katie enjoys cooking, baking, gardening, and her monthly game nights with girlfriends.

“Scott” by Kathryn

I have definitely been blessed to have Scott as my partner in life. Scott is incredibly genuine, caring, generous and an all-around good man and my safe place. He puts all he has to give and works incredibly hard in providing for his family. Scott is a social butterfly and can talk to anyone. I admire his sense of adventure and his gentleness to push me to expand my comfort zone. He has always been genuinely interested in getting to know people and building solid relationships with those around him. He always puts others’ needs before his own and makes sure that others always have everything they need and are content. Scott has such a fun sense of humor and never misses the opportunity to be goofy and make people laugh. He can lighten a mood or change the energy in any room for the better. We love to joke about Scott’s trivia and movie knowledge and have fun with it. The amount of movie quotes and trivia knowledge crammed into his head is amazing! Scott is a kid at heart and so much fun. He is often found running around playing with the kids in the neighborhood, our friends’ kids, and with our nieces and nephews. The relationships and love I see with him and all of the kids around us warms my heart to no end. Scott is already a dad in his heart and when I imagine him with our own son or daughter I get so excited and cannot wait for that day to become a reality.

“Kathryn” by Scott

Kathryn is an amazing person in every aspect. I am truly proud to be able to call her my wife. When I think of words to describe Kathryn, I can say that there are way too many to list when describing the type of person she is. The words strong, caring, inspirational, dedicated, loyal and patient are a few that come to mind right away. I can say that I wouldn’t be where I am at in my life if it wasn’t for Kathryn. I have no doubt in my mind that she will be an amazing mother and I can’t wait until that day comes to watch her shine. Kathryn and I have been able to share our love of traveling with each other and enjoyed visiting many beautiful places together. Kathryn and I look forward to sharing our love for travel with our future children. I have seen her step out of her comfort zone while on vacations to truly be a part of an experience. She is strong in her beliefs and have fought hard for everything that she has   accomplished in her life. Kathryn is ready to take on the next chapter of her life head on and I know without a doubt that she will succeed because that is the type of person she is.

Family

We have been blessed beyond belief with both sides of our family. Scott’s parents, Bill and Kay, have been married for 48 years and he has a younger brother, Mike. Mike and his long-time girlfriend, Amber, have 2 daughters, Riley “4” and Jayden “9” together. Kathryn’s parents, Steve and Rosie, have been married for 51 years and she is the baby of the family with 3 older siblings. Her oldest brother, Chad, and his wife, Amy, have 2 children, Sean “21” and Emma “18”.  Her other brother, Matt, is single and does not have any children. Kathryn’s sister, Melissa, and brother in-law, Ben, have 2 children Gabe “10” and Josie “7”. We all live close to each other, get together often to celebrate a holiday or birthday, or just because we want to. Both of our families pray daily with us to be blessed with a successful adoption. We spend a lot of time with our nieces and nephews often babysitting them and having them overnight. We love being close enough to them and cherish being part of their childhood.

Friends

In our lives, our friends are so important to us. We have built and maintained so many close friendships throughout our lives. We have a handful of friends that are closest to us and are like our family. We are both fortunate enough to have friends since we were in first and second grade. We also instantly made friends with the first neighbors we met and we closely became family to each other. We all live close by, are together often, and their children even refer to us as aunt and uncle. We spend some of the holidays together, travel together, and celebrate birthdays together.  We are so fortunate to have these “family” friends by our side and they could not be more excited and supportive for us in the next chapter of our lives together.