Our names are Patrick and Kate and we’re so happy that you are reading our profile. We are excited to be at this stage of our journey. We are grateful for the opportunity to become parents and ready to take on this huge responsibility of parenting a child through adoption. We cannot begin to understand what you are going through in your journey. Please know that we respect the amazingly tough decision that you are making by creating an adoption plan for your baby. Things never seem to go the way we plan in life. We experienced this while struggling with infertility for several years. Although our efforts to begin a family have been difficult at times, our relationship has become stronger and our desire to become parents even more certain.

We met each other 15 years ago and we recently celebrated our 10th wedding anniversary. We have been through job changes, house projects, good times and sad times together. We are each other’s best friend. We have a strong marriage and share many of the same values and traditions. We plan on instilling the values of honesty, openness, and love in our new family.

Thank you for taking the time to learn about us and consider us as adoptive parents for your child. We are in awe of the strength and love that you must have for your child to be making this decision. If you choose us to parent your child, please know that we will love him or her with all of our hearts.

Our life together 

We have started many of our own traditions. In the fall we often visit a pumpkin patch for cider, donuts and pumpkins. We also enjoy fall drives in Patrick’s vintage car to see the colors change on the trees. Cutting down our Christmas tree at a local tree farm has become a holiday tradition as well as decorating Christmas cookies with one of Patrick’s brothers. In the spring we sometimes visit friends in Arizona where we enjoy hiking and swimming. In the summer we enjoy riding our bikes to our community’s 4th of July parade.

Locally, we enjoy attending baseball and hockey games as well as visiting nearby museums. We love to travel, whether it’s taking a road trip and packing a picnic lunch or taking longer trips to places such as Maine and New York City. We often mix our broad interests while on vacation. For example, we attended a vintage car race and an aquarium while in Monterey, California. We enjoy taking photos, trying new food at local restaurants and visiting roadside attractions.

During the summer, you’ll find us riding our bikes to our neighborhood ice cream store, at the Lake Michigan beach or having friends and family over for cookouts on our patio. On occasion, we’ll visit Kate’s parents and her extended family at a family cottage in Northern Michigan.

Our family and neighborhood

We both grew up in loving and supportive families where education was always emphasized and dinner together each night was a given. We both have fun memories of family traditions and vacations with our parents, siblings and extended relatives. Both of our parents have been married for over 40 years. Patrick’s parents live five minutes from us and Kate’s parents live in the Chicago area, so we will have two sets of engaged and excited grandparents in the life of the child we adopt. We have siblings and extended family and, although most of them do not live close by, they are all excited about the opportunity to love and welcome our child into our families. We plan on continuing the same traditions and values with our own family that our parents shared with us.

We own a ranch style home with three bedrooms, a fenced-in backyard and a rec room. It is located in a walkable community with sidewalks and tree lined streets. Patrick grew up in the community where we now live. He enjoyed a five minute bike ride down to a lake where he took sailing lessons. Our local library is also a 15 minute walk from our home. We visit our library on a regular basis and would take advantage of the story time and other children’s events they provide. We live in a community with top rated schools. Our elementary school and playground with tennis courts are just three blocks from our home. Parents of children in our neighborhood walk their children to school and we would do the same. We have many friends with children living in our community and would certainly have a strong support system.