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hello! WE’RE KATE AND NICK. Thank you so much for taking the time to learn more about our family. We have a biological son, Jack, and a daughter, Nora, whom we adopted as an infant. We have always wanted to expand our family through adoption and have had a wonderful experience on our adoption journey with
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Nora. We look forward to sharing our abundant love with a new baby soon. If you choose our family, you will know with certainty that we will provide for every aspect of the baby’s physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual
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well-being each and every day. We are so in love with Jack and Nora and cannot wait to embrace a new little one into our caring family.
FUN IN HAWAII!
OUR STORY SO FAR We met during college while we were participating in Dance Marathon, a charity that raises money for BEST BUDDIES!
children with cancer. We had an instant connection that continued to grow while we dated for several years. We moved to North Carolina in 2000 when Nick took
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a job with a large computer company and Kate began law school. In 2002, we went to California and Nick proposed on a sunny day outside during a picnic lunch at a winery in Napa Valley. We were married in 2003 in the church where Kate’s grandparents and parents were also married.
Family is our most important priority. We have so many fun family, holiday and seasonal traditions that we have created over the past ten years. At Halloween we host a pumpkin carving party every year with our friends. Everyone dresses up and we drink hot apple cider and eat caramel apples. Each year we host Thanksgiving at our home and invite family, neighbors and friends to enjoy an outdoor movie on a screen in our backyard. We dress warmly, make s‘mores and gather around an NORA'S THIRD BIRTHDAY
outdoor fire. Every Christmas we load up the car and drive to Pennsylvania to visit our extended families. The past two years we were lucky to get tons of snow. We head to Pennsylvania for a huge Easter egg hunt with our sister-in-law Natasha’s family. A few years ago they had 20 children searching the back yard for eggs—how fun! In addition to the holidays, we enjoy celebrating birthdays with family and friends. We have cake, colorful balloons and a festive party for each of our birthdays—including our dog! Kate makes our favorite dinner and we enjoy creating special birthday memories together as a family.
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childhood memory
Thanksgiving
Water skiing
FLOWERS FROM NICK — SO SWEET!
a supportive wife to me. Kate makes our home a warm and fun place to be. Her first priority is making sure the kids are safe, happy and healthy. They love to go to the park or to music class at the library or just play at home. While she works part time as a mediator, she spends many days playing with Nora and Jack. Jack and Nora love their Mama and I could never do what I do without Kate’s unwavering support and love. She is the most positive person I have ever met and I am honored to be her partner.
MAMA AND NORA AT THE PUMPKIN PATCH
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HABITAT FOR HUMANITY
We love, love, love to travel. Over the
beach during the summer season.
15 years that we’ve been together
Since we spend a lot of time at the
(11 that we've been married),
beach in the summer, we have many
we have visited Italy, England,
family members visit to spend time
Curacao, Aruba, Puerto Rico, Hawaii,
with us. Playing in the sand, relaxing
California, Mexico, Costa Rica and
on the beach or swimming in the
many other places. We own a beach
waves are some of our favorite
place on the Carolina Coast so we
things to do.
spend almost every weekend at the
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NICK IS SUCH AN AMAZING DAD. His favorite part of the day is the time that he spends with his kids. Nick’s the kind of dad who goes to every pediatrician appointment and preschool recital and he takes the time to play with and love on Jack and Nora each day. Even if Nick is helping Jack brush his teeth they’re also singing a song and being silly. He spends so much time each day playing with Nora and cuddling with her. As a result,
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the children. Jack roars with laughter as soon as he sees Nick and Nora’s faces light up.
holiday
Christmas
kid's movie
Curious George
childhood memory
Swimming at my community pool
food
Anything from the grill
We went to Disney World for the
our dog, Ernie, who loves Jack and
first time and the kids LOVED it. Jack
Nora to pieces. Nick and I have
rode his first roller coaster and Nora
done triathlons and look forward to
still talks about how Princess Tiana
continued walks, races, swimming
called her “Sugar”—too fun!
and activities with Jack, Nora and
I feel so fortunate to have such a wonderful partner in Nick. He truly is my best friend and strongest supporter.
the new baby. Jack is really great on We also love the outdoors and are
his bike and Nora is getting the hang
a very active family. We like to
of hers, too. Soon we will be able to
take Jack and Nora on hikes with
go on rides together as a family!
HANGING OUT AT THE BEACH
Our Home
is warm, welcoming and full of love, friends and family. We are
very social and love to have our friends and neighbors over to share meals and have fun. Our home is spacious with plenty of room for children. Both Jack and Nora enjoy their own bedrooms and bathrooms. There is a large swing set in the backyard with a tree house style fort, three swings (one for each child, and one for the next baby), a fire pole, a rope ladder and a large slide that the kids love. We live near several shopping areas (we often walk to get ice cream with the kids), parks and excellent schools.
Our neighborhood is safe, family-friendly and full of kids.
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OUR KIDS. We try to spend as much time laughing and having fun with our kiddos. We take Jack and Nora to museums, to the beach, to the pool, to play in our backyard and to ride bikes. We travel often and try to
pack in as much fun as possible. When Jack was about 3, we were blessed to adopt Nora. She has been the perfect fit for our family. She is such a firecracker! Jack and Nora have been best buddies from the start. They laugh and play and roll around like puppies. It gives us so much joy to see what a close relationship they have. They are truly best friends.
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FAMI LY TRADITIONS 1. Sleeping in late. 2. Dressing up and having fun at Halloween! 3. Playing charades with enthusiasm. 4. Singing & dancing while we cook dinner. 5. Watching a movie together on the couch.
UNCLES GIVE THE BEST SHOULDER RIDES
BIG FAMILY HUGS!
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DISNEY WITH MARCIE!
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We are blessed to have Kate’s mom, Martha (Jack and Nora call her Marcie), live less than 1 mile away. She is an incredible person who taught kindergarten for almost thirty years before she retired. Martha is a tremendous support to our family. We enjoy hiking with her on the weekends, going to church together every Sunday, and are generally in and out of each other’s homes on a daily basis. Kate and Martha have an incredibly close bond. Nick and Martha also have a wonderful relationship and get along more as friends than as mother and son-in-law. Marcie is thrilled to have another grandchild to love as much as Jack and Nora.
Nick is an only child and his parents (Gran and Pappy as Jack calls them) love Nora and Jack very much.
FAMILY GET-TOGETHERS
They’re both down on the floor playing with the kids as soon as they see them. They were elementary school teachers for over 35 years and naturally love children. Both are still involved in volunteering with kids at a community center near where they live. Gran and Pappy cannot wait to embrace the new baby. Kate’s brother, Sean, is one of Jack’s favorite people. Sean calls Jack and Nora almost every day and leaves them silly answering machine messages pretending to be Bob the Builder, Curious George, or a pretend robot that Jack loves, “Ron Robot.” Sean and his wife, Natasha, visit so often the kids were convinced they lived at the Carolina beach. Sean and “Tash” are a great influence in Jack’s and Nora’s life and look forward to meeting the new baby with open arms.
ONE last
THANK YOU GETTING OUR CHRISTMAS TREE AS A FAMILY
DISNEY FUN!
We always felt a calling to welcome a baby
respect for you and the difficult choice that you
into our loving family through adoption and
are selflessly making on behalf of your baby. We
we would be honored to be selected by you.
hope that you will find peace and comfort about
Our family will shower your baby with love
your decision. Thank you so much for taking the
and happiness. We look forward to joyfully
time to consider our family.
welcoming a baby of any race into our family. If you choose us, you can know with certainty that
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he or she will be raised in a safe, healthy, warm,
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stable and fun environment. We have so much
phone: A Child's Hope — 877.890.4673