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Joel, Sara, and Isaac

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Joel, Sara, and Isaac

With Great Respect We Welcome You

Hello! We are Joel, Sara and Isaac a loving and supportive family of 3 (plus our dog, Scruffy) looking to grow our family again through adoption. We admire the courageous decision you’ve made to make an adoption plan for your child and we welcome you into our hearts. Since we met 13 years ago, our hope has been to build a home full of unconditional love and laughter and we are eager to adopt another baby to help fulfill this dream.

We believe compassion, self-sacrificial love and curiosity are essential to living life to the fullest. We will do everything in our power to make sure that his baby has a happy and carefree childhood, a great education and is exposed to diverse interests.

We are home study approved and certified to adopt a child. Our hope is to build a relationship with any family that would entrust us with their child but we respect any level of privacy you may want.

We have a team of professionals ready to go and we are able to meet your needs and help empower you to make the best decision for you and your baby. We are humbled by your consideration and look forward to meeting you.

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Who We Are

We met at a mutual friend's wedding in Mexico. After Joel caught Sara’s eye in a pre-wedding photobook, the bride-to-be rearranged the seating chart for us to sit together. So excited to meet this handsome man, Sara planned the perfect outfit for the big introduction. The morning of the rehearsal, however, Sara went down to grab some breakfast, un-showered, no make-up, and bumped into Joel!

We immediately hit it off and quickly discovered we both grew up in similar environments and shared the same values. We laugh that it took two Iowa kids who grew up only three hours apart, 20 years and a trip to Mexico to meet!

Our relationship is built on the foundation of our shared core values of trust, deep mutual respect and sacrificial love.

Our hearts grew again when Isaac joined our family 5 years ago through adoption. We have an open relationship with his birth mother and father and have an open line of communication with them. Even though we live in different parts of the country, we’ve been able to visit a couple of times since Isaac was born. Isaac will be a wonderful big brother! He is a curious, kind, adventurous little boy and is so excited by the possibility of having a baby brother or sister to play with.

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Date Night!

Date night might look a big different these days (masks, outdoor seating) but I always love spending time with my best friend. Enjoying a meal together is one of our favorite ways to slow down and connect, we cherish the time together!

A Sweet Reminder

Today marks the 7th day of Lent and although it’s been a hard week with no sweets, we are humbled to have a small, daily reminder of the sacrifice Christ made for us.  We are in a hard season of waiting. Yesterday, one of the adoption professionals partnering with us reminded me \that even in this season, the Lord has our best interest at heart.  We may not understand his “whys” but we can rest in the fact that he has gone before us and paid the ultimate sacrifice so that we may life full of abundant grace and love. So even through this time of waiting and doubt we are holding to the hope of the cross and eagerly awaiting the day when we see the fulfillment of our hopes. Someday, we look forward to sharing this faith with our child.  

Thank You for Visiting Our Adoption Profile

We want to thank you for considering us as adoptive parents for your child.

We truly appreciate your kindness and strength and look forward to hearing from you.

Sincerely,

Joel, Sara, and Isaac

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