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Hello and welcome to our profile! We are Steph, Brandy, and of course the sweetest pup ever – Mini. Our family is big on traditions, adventures, having fun, and most importantly taking the time to appreciate the “little” things in life. Brandy is a manager at a logistics facility, and Steph is a buyer for a distribution company. While we love traveling and big adventures, our free time is mainly spent with family, hiking, kayaking, playing games, doing puzzles, or dancing in the kitchen. While we have been having a blast together the past 9 years, we cannot wait to grow our family and have a new adventure buddy! Thanks for reading our profile and we hope to meet you soon!
We are proud to be a success story of a dating app! After both swiping right and an awkward greeting on Valentine’s Day, we began dating in 2015, and although we originally lived an hour apart, we never looked back. In June of 2018, Steph proposed, and we were married in October of 2019 at a small ceremony in the park, followed by a big backyard wedding reception.
We genuinely love spending time together, whether it be out and about with family or close friends or hanging out together at the house playing a board game. You can catch us going wild at Indy Fuel hockey games with our cowbell or taking it easy on the lake, kayaking. While we are two very different people, we complement one another well and share the same values and morals. Steph now enjoys going to art museums, and Brandy is down to root for whatever team Steph is rooting for during a game! To us, it’s all about the little things in life, and we strive to never take ourselves too seriously or take a moment for granted.
We have a funny saying around our house: Brandy is the pod and me and the dog are her peas. She is the rock of our family and keeps our lives and household running smoothly. Brandy is resilient, courageous, hardworking, and hilarious, but what I love most about her is her heart. She has a huge capacity for loving and caring for those in her circle and others in need. She wears her heart on her sleeve and every single emotion on her face (she literally can’t control her face, even when sometimes she probably should!). You are always going to know where you stand with Brandy, and I love the honesty in that. Her determination and grit never cease to amaze me. There’s nowhere I’d rather be than cheering her on while she’s competing in a triathlon or bike race. She’s fun, adventurous, and I’m proud to call her mine.
Brandy is a mom without a baby. She was born to nurture. I knew early on by the way she interacted with our niece, and now with our nephew, that she will be an incredible mommy someday. She is supportive, creative, hands on, and will never not show up for me or a child. Every pod needs more peas, and we cannot wait to have a full pod!
Family is the most important part of our lives. We both grew up in loving homes and spent a lot of time with our grandparents, aunts, and uncles. We are still extremely close with our families and prefer to spend time getting together over anything else. We are centrally located with our immediate family members living only about an hour away in 3 different directions, making it easy to show up to cookouts, T-Ball games, or the school pick-up line for a weekend slumber party. Our niece (9) and our nephew (almost 5) light up our world. Knowing the love and joy that they bring us only gets us more excited to grow our own family.
Our faith is important to us. We are Christians and belong to a church that is welcoming to all walks of life. The amount of support and community we have been shown by our pastors and our church family throughout our adoption journey has been abundant. There are a lot of young children in our church and many of them are adopted as well! This will serve as a source of strength and support for a child. We feel it is important to raise kids in a church that walks in the way of Jesus, spreading love, kindness, peace, and justice for all.
Through our church, we are involved with Overdose Lifeline, which is a volunteer organization that among other services packs Narcan kits to distribute throughout Indiana. This program is near to our hearts as we lost Brandy’s younger sister to overdose in 2019. Through that experience, we hold a lot of compassion and empathy for those struggling with addiction.
Holding loved ones close, being kind to all, having faith, and remembering that everybody deserves compassion are important values that we want to continue to embrace as our family grows.
We live in a charming little neighborhood near Indianapolis within walking distance to both the local high school and elementary school. It is a quiet community with mature trees where you will always find families out walking their dogs or kids whizzing down the street on their bikes. Next to the elementary school, there is an outdoor community pavilion where the town gets together a couple times a year and enjoys food trucks, games, and free concerts! We particularly love walking down to the elementary school in the summer and setting up camping chairs for movie nights out.
Living so close to Indianapolis, we have quick access to a ton of fun things to do, like the Children’s Museum, Indy Zoo, water parks, hiking trails, and of course tons of sporting events. While we love a fun day out, one of our favorite things to do is set up a tent in the backyard and camp out with a bonfire and s’mores.
Our families, friends, church, and neighbors are all rooting for us and providing unparalleled support throughout our adoption journey. We cannot wait to welcome a baby into our home and share with them the love that we feel on a daily basis.
A long road has led us to our adoption journey. Beginning in 2019 we worked with a fertility clinic and suffered multiple failed IUI and IVF attempts. This proved to be a difficult season of our lives, but we learned to lean into one another for support and strength more than we ever had before. One thing we knew for sure is that we wanted children in our lives. We worked to become foster parents with the intention of helping children in need and adopting, if that is what was best for the child. We had a couple placements, one being a newborn that we brought home from the hospital. We fell in love in a way that we did not know was possible, and it was at this point we knew with no uncertainty that we do not need to be biologically related to our child to love them fiercely as our own. Once this foster baby went back to his family, we knew in our hearts that we were meant to adopt.
Thank you for taking the time to get to know us and for opening your heart to the option of adoption. We want you to know that we are committed to being as open with this journey as you are comfortable with and truly believe that a child cannot have too many hearts loving them. We cannot wait to get to know you!
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