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Waiting Family Profiles

Below is a listing of hopeful adoptive families who have an approved study and are excited to meet with you and discuss your wishes for your child. Please click on the family name to go to their individual page and learn more about them.

In addition to the families highlighted below, we have familes that are part of our Waiting Family Book who do not choose to have their profile online. If you are interested in viewing other families or discussing your adoption decision, please contact our Pregnancy Counseling and Birth Parent Services at 888.205.3769 or email at [email protected].

Travis and Shawn

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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

Hello!  Thank you for taking time to learn about us and our adoption journey. We are Shawn and Travis, and we can’t wait to become playful, loving, caring dads!

About Us

We met in June 2013 at our church in Minneapolis.  We dated for five years, and took our time to build our relationship on a solid foundation of friendship and trust.  We are both very spiritual, and our relationship with God has been the light guiding our journey together.  In 2018, we were married on our fifth anniversary.  We are both so grateful to have met the love of our life and to be happily together.

Our family members are very excited to support us as parents.  In the north suburbs, Shawn has both parents, four siblings, five nieces & nephews, and many aunts and uncles.  In the south suburbs, Travis has both of his parents.  Travis also has two siblings, a grandma, and aunts and uncles in Florida and Maryland.  We are both in long-term recovery, with many years clean and sober and a huge recovery community support network.  We also have many, many close friends in Minneapolis that can’t wait to become aunties and uncles.

We proudly live in the heart of Midtown Minneapolis, a busy and diverse neighborhood with a huge park nearby and tons of fun places to explore.  We live in a beautiful, spacious two-bedroom, two-bathroom condo near many lakes, schools, daycares, and hospitals within walking distance.  Nearby are also many delicious restaurants with food from all over the world, community centers, and resource centers to help support our family.  We are also very involved in supporting our church community, which is located just a few blocks from our home.  We both grew up in the Twin Cities suburbs and most of our family lives nearby.

Fun Stuff

We love to travel and explore new places.  In the summer, we go on long cycling trips to raise money for nonprofit organizations.  We also have a camper and love to go camping over the weekends, often with several friends.  Shawn also loves to rock climb and travels all over the state and the country to go rock climbing with his friends.

In the winter, we always try to get away to visit someplace warm at least once.  We have been traveling to Puerto Vallarta, Mexico each year for the last four years, where we love to go hiking, whale watching, eat at fun restaurants, and hang out at the beach.  We also usually try and visit family and friends where it is not freezing cold, like our friends in Palm Springs, California or Travis’s grandmother and brother in Tampa, Florida.

Everyday Life

We are both active, and typically start each day with breakfast, coffee, and a workout at the gym before work.  We both generally work daytime jobs, Monday through Friday.  Shawn is an executive assistant for a television personality, and Travis is an attorney at a law firm in Minneapolis.  We both work very hard, but make sure to keep healthy boundaries and a good work-life balance with our jobs.  It is really important to us to have family time together in the evening and on the weekends, and we make sure that is a priority in our life.

On the weekends, we are usually taking walks, hanging out with our friends, visiting family, going out on an adventure, or camping.  We just love to have fun and look forward to sharing that fun with our child.

Openness

We are open to openness!  We would like to match with a birth family who would be open to periodic visits and an ongoing relationship.  We are also open to less openness, such as regular letters and pictures.  Whatever that ends up looking like, we intend to raise our little one with a clear understanding of their adoption story, and promise to foster an environment that encourages pride in our family and love for our child’s birth parents.

We are so excited!

We can’t wait to get to know our little one and watch them as they grow, to take them to the park, play on the swings, and look at the ducks in the lake.  We can’t wait for them to say their first words, or give their first smile, to see them off to school and to help them grow.  We can’t wait to be a loving family together and to be caring, patient, supportive dads for our child’s entire life.

About Shawn

  • Grew up in Forest Lake, Minnesota and has two parents and four younger brothers and sisters.
  • Enjoys fitness, traveling, rock climbing, kayaking, family time, movies, and cycling.
  • Graduated college with an associate degree in liberal studies and currently working toward his bachelor degree.
  • Is super funny and silly, and makes sure there is no shortage of giggles in our house.
  • Works as an executive assistant for a television personality.

About Travis

  • Grew up in Apple Valley, Minnesota and has two parents and two younger brothers.
  • Loves reading, video games, science fiction, lifting weights, and hiking.
  • Graduated college with a BA in Global Studies and law school with a Juris Docter degree.
  • Speaks English, Spanish, and Mandarin Chinese.
  • Works as an attorney at a law firm in Minneapolis.

THANK YOU…

…for learning a bit about what makes us who we are. We know there is only so much we can fit into four pages, and would love to get to know you more. We are so ready to be dads, and can’t wait to welcome a little one into our loving family. We would be blessed and honored to hear from you.

You can learn more about our family and contact us by visiting www.TravisShawnAdopt.com or

Facebook.com/groups/TravisShawnAdopt.

Our 2019 Christmas Card

We love spending time with our nieces and nephews

Goofing around at the State Fair

Playing games with baby niece Addy

Shawn’s family on the left and Travis’s on the right

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