John and Carrie
Our names are John and Carrie. Since our marriage in 2004, we have always known that we are supposed to become parents. However, through years of trying to become parents, we've realized that God has a different way for us. We strongly believe that it is through the little miracle you created that we are being given this opportunity to fulfill our role as parents in this life. |
About Us We met through a mutual friend in April 2003. After a few months we became good friends and soon realized we were meant to be together. On the first of November 2003 we got engaged. After a six month engagement, we were married on May 1, 2004. We were 24 and 25 years old when we got married. |
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About Carrie Carrie is now 31 years old, and has been a day care teacher for over 10 years. She works with very young infants up to school age. Needless to say, she has a lot of experience with kids. John has always admired her ability to talk to kids and understand them. She knows how to help kids figure things out and to teach them right from wrong. In her volunteer job as the church nursery director, the kids in the church just flock to her and can't wait until Sunday comes so she can teach them all about the Bible. |
About John John spends a lot of his time singing and playing guitar with our friends at church. He is one of the worship leaders at church. He also helps teach the Bible study at the Senior Youth group (high school age) and is a member of the church's leadership team. When he's not busy at church, he spends a lot of time at home hanging out with the family, watching TV, and playing computer games. He also spends time out on his motorcycle or at the golf course. He works for DST Systems in Kansas City. He drives downtown every weekday to work in a cubicle in front of a computer screen. It may sound boring, but he realized in college that he was very good at working with computers and writing websites and programs. When we become parents, John will continue to work, but Carrie will be fulfilling her dreams by staying home full time to be a Mom. |
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About Our Pets We have two wiener dogs named Frankie and Maggie. We adopted Frankie in 2005 after she was found running along a highway north of Kansas City. Over the past 5 years she has become one of the best behaved, smartest dogs we know. Just last year in late 2009, Maggie joined the family. She is still just a puppy, and she is very energetic. She loves to chew on every dog toy in the house, sometimes chewing on things that aren't dog toys. However, she is growing up into a very well-behaved dog. |
About Our Home In 2007, we were getting ready to put our house on the market when our friends told us about a house next door to them that had come up for sale. We went looking at it and fell in love with it, especially because it's right next door to our best friends. The house was built in 1992, and the previous owners raised their children here until they were teenagers. They left a play set with swings and a slide in the backyard, a basketball goal in the driveway, and lots of room to run and play. Just ask our two wiener dogs, they love to run around in our backyard! We can't wait to watch our baby laughing as we swing him or her on it. The neighborhood is full of friendly people and other kids. In our town there are two parks to which we would love to take our son or daughter and dogs to play. |
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About Our Family Our family is very important to us. John's mother had always hoped and prayed that he would marry a girl with a big family. Carrie's family is the biggest! She has two brothers and two sisters, numerous nephews and nieces, eight grandparents, plenty of aunts and uncles, and many, many cousins. Her side of the sanctuary on the wedding day was full! |
Our Thoughts on Becoming Parents We are so excited to become parents. Every family member and friend we have spoken to about adoption has been very positive about our decision. We have a huge support system. John's Mom was adopted as an infant in 1944, and she is very excited that John and Carrie get to do the same thing as her parents. Her adoption was closed, and she never knew her birthparents. Although she has not had any real problems throughout her life stemming from her closed adoption, we believe that openness in adoption is very important. We plan to keep communication between us and our baby's birthparents open for the rest of our lives. We look forward to being able to take our new child to visit our family all over the Kansas City area and otherwise. We have many family gatherings with Carrie's family in the KC metro, and we plan on taking trips to Chicago, Iowa, and Sweden to "show off" our new baby to our family and friends. Mostly, we just look forward to spending time at home and at church, playing, teaching, learning, growing, and just becoming the best parents we can become. Thank you for loving your baby so much that you would give him or her the chance at life. We know you would not do this unless you have hope for your baby's future. We promise that we can provide that hope. |
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