Our lives have been positively shaped by adoption, and we are eager to include adooption as the way to expand our family.

Jeremiah and his younger sister were both adopted as babies; they are Hispanic folks who were adopted by a White couples. Jeremiah never met his birthmother, which is a part of his story that still makes him sad.

Even though Jeremiah wishes that he knew his birthmother, he had a very positive experience with adoption. His parents talked openly about adoption, and celebrated "Jeremiah Day", which is the day that his parents took him home.

They always talked positively about his birthmother, even though they never knew her. They talked to Jeremiah about his cultural heritage, which was different from their own. Jeremiah knew that he was loved by all the parents in his life.

Julia's first dream was to become a mother. Even as a child, she imagined that adoption might be a part of her story.

After two pregnancy losses, Julia decided not to pursue parenthood through pregnancy. While Julia will always grieve her pregnancy losses, she and Jeremiah are excited for the ways that adoption offers us to influence a future life and enhance our family.

We will offer your child the same degree of openness about adoption, respect for culture, and opportunities to build a relationship with you.

We understand that your baby will likely have some sadness and questions about adoption. We will do our best to support your child's difficult questions and grief.

We hope to have an open adoption so that you can also be a part of these conversations. However, we respect what is most comfortable for you.

The first thing to know about us is that we're both relationship therapists.

We share this because we believe that the most important thing we can offer a child is a relationship between two people who love each other, root each other on, solve problems well, and laugh together.

A lot, in our case.

We are deeply invested in practicing the things that we invite our couples to consider. We want to model date nights, communicating our feelings respectfully, a process for apologizing well, an equal partnership where both of our strengths get to shine, and curious questions.

We met in November 2018 through a work connection. While we sipped coffee and ate bagels at a cafe near Jeremiah's office, we both felt a fast spark as we bonded over our careers and future aspirations.

It was the most magical coffee of our lives. We've had many more magical dates since then.

And over the next several years, we established our lives together. We consider ourselves the luckiest because we get to change the world alongside of our favorite person.

We have lived internationally (The Netherlands), traveled all over the world, hiked over 2,000 miles together, started two businesses together, and played hundreds of hours of board games.

Most importantly, we have worked hard to become excellent partners. We strive to treat each other with kindness, patience, mutual respect, and unconditional love.

Growing up in a rural town, my childhood adventures focused on local wildlife and other outdoor activities. As a little girl, I loved writing and illustrating my own stories, collecting stuffed animal seals, collecting sap buckets for maple syrup, and walking to the local beaver pond.

While I now prefer living in the city, I hope to explore nature with my child and family through hiking, biking, and learning about the outside world.

I love my job as a couples therapist, and I believe that it helps me to be a better partner to Jeremiah.

Outside of work, I enjoy cooking, attending book clubs, running, cooking, and talking to my friends. I am emotionally sensitive, and I value friends and family who care about my feelings.

I am adopted myself. I have always been extremely curious about myself and the world around me. I am highly imaginative, hope-filled, self-reflective, and resilient.

My favorite three activities are laughing, traveling, and learning about the world through other people's eyes.

My favorite values that I want to instill in our children are hospitality, honesty, education, and creativity.

I relax by playing music, singing, hiking with Julia, exercising, and reading.

I am energized by my job as a relationship therapist, writing, passionate sports fans, and conversations with my friends.

Most families have at least one person that chooses to live away from where they grew up. We are those people in our families. We see our parents, siblings, and cousins as much as we can. We love them dearly, and we're thrilled to have them be a part of our growing family.

But our home is the numerous relationships that we've developed over the years. We are invested in building relationships with our neighbors; we live in a condo in the thriving downtown of a mid-sized city. We are dedicated to engaging with nearby parks, great schools, and the numerous community events our city offers.

1) Kindness. We encourage. We say positive things about ourselves and other people.

2) Curiosity. Each relationship and place that we visit teaches us something about ourselves.

3) Empathy. We ask how we're doing. We grieve and comfort when things are hard.

4) Laughter. We are pretty silly. We play games. We have a lot of fun together.

5) Adventure. We take risks. We try new things. We look for joy in the hard things.

We promise to show a child how to love themselves and love other people through the respect and kindness that we model.

We promise to say and show "I love you" to each family member as much as we can, in as many ways as we can.

We promise to surround our family with people who will love us, support us, and invest in our wellbeing and growth.

We promise to apologize for the mistakes that we make, and create a family that takes accountability for our actions.

We promise to ask good questions, so that all of us can make the best decisions, learn from our mistakes, and grow into the best of people.

We promise to hold each other in the moments that life is cruel.

Most importantly, we promise to walk, hike, travel, explore, offer hope, and laugh as much as we can.