Hi there! Sam and Hannah here. We are honored by your viewing of our book, and we hope to share our life and our love with you and your sweet little one. We promise to be open and honest, and answer any questions you may have.

A traditional love story: We met in college, and while we had been great friends for a couple of years, we truly grew to love one another after a year of courting. Being totally broke, we learned how to appreciate family dinners, walks in the gardens, and long phone calls. We tied the knot halfway through senior year, surrounded by friends and family. 

And then: The dreaded graduate school experience…We both survived, and welcomed our first son, Daniel, on the day we graduated. Slightly stressful, but so worth it.

The move: Samuel, Hannah, and baby Daniel trekked across the state to a new life, new job, and eventually two new little minions: George and David. George is our second bio baby, and David was brought into our family through adoption a couple years later. Sam currently works a remote engineering job and Hannah homeschools the boys!

The next play: We had each individually experienced a strong desire to adopt since before we married. We joyfully brought our youngest son home through adoption in 2023!  As an adoptive family, we understand firsthand that families are created in a variety of beautiful ways.  Our son's birth family is dear to our hearts; we now consider them as part of our family, and we talk about them often. As we look forward to growing our family again through adoption, we would want you to understand that our commitment is not only to our future child, but to their birth family. We are one big team, all dedicated to loving this child together. 

Sam is strong and steady, practical, level-headed, and a wonderfully romantic husband! He works as an engineer, and enjoys many different hobbies.

He is a marvelous, classically trained piano player, and plays hymns for everyone to sing along. He loves pro football and backyard football, and has learned to tolerate college football for my sake…Go Bears and Roll Tide! He is also a huge Cubs fan, has turned me into one, and is going to love taking us to baseball games.

He and his brothers love hanging out and playing video games to bridge the distance. He cannot wait to share that with our kids as they grow.

Sam’s top interest, however, is being with his family. He never fails to spend time with the boys in the morning, and he always makes breakfast and plays with them before starting work. When it's time for him to walk back to the office, the boys all rush back with him to snag a few mini m&ms as a fun treat, and they each get a hug and a high five. He is the most tender, patient, compassionate father, and does everything he can to let us know he loves us. He even found a remote job, so as to allow him more time with us! He now enjoys lunch at home, and the boys will knock on his office door to show him their latest lego build or coloring page. He is truly the best father I could have imagined. It is an honor to watch him be a dad.

Hannah is an active, dedicated, and loving wife and mother. She is immensely creative and has widely varied interests.

Hannah’s primary joy is the outdoors. She has turned our simple yard into a wonderful garden where we can grow fruits, veggies and beautiful flowers. When not gardening (or planning new gardening projects), she spends most of her time playing with our children in the backyard. When she spends time inside, she enjoys sewing, reading books, or playing the piano.

Hannah’s primary virtue is dedication to the people around her. She prioritizes the people she loves over everything else. She is also fantastic around children. Most of her jobs through college and grad school involved teaching children, and she has excelled as a mother to our three children. She incorporates them in everything she does (even when it results in a complete mess of the kitchen). She is creative in playtime, consistent in discipline, and is devoted to understanding who our children are and meeting their needs.

I could not imagine having a wife more committed to our family’s happiness and well-being. She is loving, fun, encouraging, and entirely dedicated to our little family. Watching her as a mother is one of my greatest joys, and any child would be blessed beyond everything to call her Mama.

We live in a brand new cute little brick home, with a fenced-in backyard perfect for little kids. Our favorite space in the house is the large, open-concept living space. It is perfect for building pillow forts, jumping on couch cushions, and dancing to music!

The house has four bedrooms, which is perfect for a boy’s room and a girl’s room while still having room for Sam’s office and family to visit. We’ve also got a ping-pong table in our garage, which is fun for guests! 

Our neighborhood is new and has sidewalks everywhere, where we enjoy taking walks after dinner. Autumn nights are the best for catching the sunset, and if you time it right, you can see all of the amazing colors just over the neighboring farmland.

On our walks, we’ve met many neighbors. They are an incredibly young and diverse group.

Our city is booming, which gives us many new restaurants, parks, and events to enjoy!  We aren’t overcrowded, though. Our neighborhood is quietly nestled between farmland and the Tennessee river, a naturally beautiful and peaceful location perfect for raising a family. 

Most couples have to take turns visiting their families every holiday season, but not us! All of our grandparents live in the same city, so driving a short one-and-a-half hours to see family is a breeze. We will never be at a loss for grandparents to love on our kiddos!

A typical trip to visit grandparents may include...

• Riding bikes or throwing balls outside with Gamma, having coffee and picking blueberries with Papa, or playing with Kiwi the puppy.
• Or, it could be reading special books with Grandma, driving cars outside and exploring the woods with Grandpa, or playing at the nearby park.

Of course, food at the grandparents is always better than what mom and dad can cook. You can’t beat milkshakes for dinner or impromtu Chick-fil-a dinner dates!

Aunts and uncles - we’ve got plenty! With six brothers, two sisters, and many inlaws between us, we have lots of siblings to spoil and love on our babies. We love to visit them, and the boys are thrilled to have so many cousins!

Easter, July 4th, Thanksgiving, and especially Christmas are full of fun family gatherings. And we always try to do big birthday shebangs! We are blessed indeed to have such a tight-knit group around us, and our kids will grow up with an abundance of family to love and support them.

Christmas: “Oh my. I married Father Christmas! Sam’s family does the tree farm, lights, cookies, music, everything! We enjoy Advent celebrations all month long with the reading of Luke, lots of eggnog, and family singalongs to Christmas hymns. They even have a pickle ornament and a particular way of opening presents! I love it. It is such a joyful time to reflect on God’s gift of salvation to us, and I can’t wait to share that joy with our family!”

-Hannah, who, while hating cold weather, does admit to liking fires, watching White Christmas, decorating cookies, and driving around to see lights ;)

Birthdays: Birthdays are a day-long ordeal, and often a week of fun activities! From waking up in the morning to a room full of balloons, to picking out meals and inviting family over, to making your own cake, to really over the top renditions of the Happy Birthday song… it’s always exciting! And it usually involves a day off from school! (homeschooling can be pretty awesome!) 

Beach Trips: We both grew up with yearly beach trips with our families, and now they’ve turned into massive family reunions involving a full week at the beach with grandparents, aunts, uncles, cousins. We can’t wait to teach the kids how to build sandcastles and ride the waves!

Thanksgiving: Family, food, and football. What else needs to be said?

We like to think that our weekend begins on Friday afternoons at the exact moment that Sam walks out of his home office... and we celebrate! Sam gathers up the boys into the car for the weekly shopping trip. Saturday mornings we try to relax and simply enjoy being together, whether that is building legos, reading, playing outside, or buillding forts. 

 Sometimes we pack up and head to the riverwalk, library, or local park to see the ducks and the fish. We also enjoy playing disc golf as a family, or going to our favorite pizza restaurant with glow in the dark mini golf. 

Occasionally, we all work together on little projects around the house. Over the past couple years, the boys have helped us build a flower bed and a swing set play area.  They love to grow things in the garden, too, and this year they all enjoyed tending to their corn, cucumbers, strawberries, and peppers. The boys had a blast harvesting all of that cool stuff! We also enjoy walking through our giant zinnia and marigold forest, and watching “bumbly-bees”, butterflies and all sorts of bugs! 

On Sundays, we try to observe Sabbath. We attend church and rest and relax before the week starts. Sometimes we bring out the tv to watch some football, and the boys love to play occasional minecraft with Sam as a Sunday treat. It is a refreshing way to finish up the weekend!

Thank you for making it this far! We hope you can see that family is our greatest earthly treasure. And, that we like to be goofy and are total nerds. 

There is one last thing we’d like you to know about our family: Our commitment to love is not based on feelings, but a covenant with God. A promise that we love sacrificially as long as we live, putting others ahead of ourselves. Our lives are centered on the cross of Jesus, and it brings JOY and PEACE into our home. God’s love does not discriminate, and His love for us is bigger than we can imagine. 

This big love extends directly to YOU. As adoptive parents, we promise to love you, honoring your wishes and your baby first. We would love to have an open relationship, but we understand that the choice is yours. If you choose us, you will be precious and honored as we talk to your baby about you. He or she will know their mommy is amazing!

Please ask us any questions you'd like! You deserve to know everything about the home you choose for your little one. We wish you peace as you brave this journey for your beloved child.