Hi, we are Chris and Caitlin. Thanks for choosing to check out our profile! We hope that you’re able to see just how excited we are to adopt and how much love we have to share with another child! 

We met at work and were coworker/friends for two years before Caitlin finally strong-armed Chris into a date in 2014. To be fair, Caitlin was the quiet receptionist who had twin boys (Nate and Alex), and to a boisterous single guy, that can be intimidating. After dating about six months Chris met Nate and Alex. They hit it off instantly, and Chris was a natural bonus-dad from the very beginning. While we bonded over movies, Halloween, board games, traveling and enjoying all life has to offer, while the boys bonded over video games and Dungeons and Dragons. Fast forward to 2022, we have been married for almost 3.5 years and our relationship has only gotten stronger. 

Chris always wanted to be a dad and Caitlin equally wanted to raise a child with him. After unsuccessfully trying to get pregnant on our own we spent two years trying IVF, which unfortunately didn’t work out. We decided to try using donated embryos and got pregnant on our first transfer. Sadly, we lost our little “bug” before they were 10 weeks along. We were devastated but realized that even though we had no genetic connection to this little one, we were already over the moon in love with it. We tried five more times before finally deciding to take the next natural step, which was adoption.

"Full of life, love, laughter and an array of random movie quotes and song lyrics. Would always prefer to sit at the kids table."

Chris grew up in south central PA playing a variety of sports and finding his love of camping, hiking and spending time in the great outdoors. He works remotely as a manager to a team of software engineers. He loves his job and the people he works alongside. Chris loves to laugh early and often. It brings him great joy to bring laughter to others. He enjoys playing board and video games with his family and friends, and whenever possible, he loves to make creative dinners out of whatever food and leftovers he finds in the house. Chris can be described as affable, gregarious and overall a giant teddy bear. He has always wanted to be a dad and has enjoyed being a bonus-dad to Nate and Alex which only intensifies his desire to expand their family.

"Renaissance woman, dream chaser, scheduling queen, extreme true crime junkie, amateur baker, and the most outgoing introvert you’ll ever know."

Caitlin was born in Wisconsin and spent her younger years in California before moving to Northern Virginia. She recently became a full time college student, and will be earning her second bachelor’s degree in Criminal Justice with a minor in Psychology in May '23. Caitlin is looking forward to chasing after a little one while also pursuing a doctorate in Criminology. She is passionate about her family and friends, loves to travel, bake, watch movies and spend weekends in her pajamas hanging with Chris, the boys and Rosie.

Nate 

Nate will be a Sophomore in high school, as of Fall '22. He excels in math and science, and hopes to become an engineer. He is a member of the Dungeons and Dragons club, as well as the Drama club. Nate loves to play video games and watch all of the Marvel movies. He can regularly be found curled up in bed reading mystery novels and cuddling with Rosie. When asked what he loves about his family he replied “we are fun to be around.” 

Alex 

Alex will also be a Sophomore in high school and loves his Food Tech class. Alex is a member of the Dungeons and Dragons club too, but prefers Harry Potter movies. If he could play video games all day he would, however he does like reading, getting creative in the kitchen, and loving Rosie. When he graduates high school he hopes to either be a famous YouTuber or a chef. He is excited to have another sibling and when asked what he loves most about his family he said “we play a bunch of games together.”

Rosie 

Rosie is a 3-year-old mini-labradoodle. She loves to cuddle with everyone, rough house with Chris, give kisses to both her brothers when they get home from school, and follow Caitlin around the house all day. We have numerous friends who have children under the age of 2 years old and she loves to play with them gently. 

"Our community is filled with a variety of cultures and backgrounds."

We live in a beautiful ranch-style home on an acre of land. While it’s not the fanciest or largest house, it’s our home. There are enough bedrooms for all the kids to have their own, and a nice cozy master suite down the hall from them. We spend most of our time as a family piled on the oversized basement couch playing video games and watching movies. 

The best feature of the house, however, is the yard! There is ample room for Caitlin’s garden, Chris to stretch out his hammock, the boys to play in the yard with Rosie and to host our annual Halloween Party on our patio with the fire pit. We are looking forward to building a treehouse in one of the large trees on our property and setting up a playground in the backyard to encourage a child to expand their imagination and invite friends over to play on.

While we wished we lived in a more structured neighborhood, we love having almost no neighbors. We have a large farm on one side of us, and another across the street, a huge wooded area behind us and the nicest neighbors with daughters who go to the boys’ high school next door. 

Even though our house is in a rural area, we are 2 miles from a shopping center, 15 minutes from a bigger city and a short drive from Washington, DC. The schools in our area are all highly rated and the high school Nate and Alex attend is one of the top 10 public high schools in the state. 

We are so lucky to have such a wonderful extended family. Chris’s parents (Nana and Grandpa) live 90 minutes from us in PA and Caitlin’s parents (Nana and Grandad) live an hour away and we see all of them every chance we get. Caitlin’s sister Courtney, also lives in northern Virginia with her husband and two daughters. The furthest relatives are Caitlin’s brother Stephen and his wife Alexandra, who live in Atlanta. Despite everyone’s busy schedules and activities, we don’t often go more than a month without seeing at least some subset of family and have weekly phone calls with all of them. Regardless of the distance they are the most loving and supportive family we could have ever asked for.

Thanksgiving and Christmas are both magical holidays. We love to spend both days with our extended family and celebrate our many special traditions. That being said…We may, or may not have, gotten married at the end of October, just so we could have an annual Halloween themed anniversary party with all of our friends and family! Decorations go up in September and stay up until Thanksgiving. We start planning our costumes in the summer and take our costume choice very seriously. Our first year Caitlin was Han Solo and Chris was Princess Leia. Our second annual party was a small outside gathering of friends without costumes due to COVID. This past year we did a family costume of everyone dressing up as a different variation of Freddie Mercury from the band Queen. Regardless of what we wear, we always have an excessive nacho bar and as many friends and family members as we can! We are so excited to share our love of Halloween with our little one!

We are fortunate to have so many fun adventures with our family. Every summer, we spend a few weeks at our beach house and every weekend we can at our lake house. When we can, we love to take big family trips! As a family we have been to DisneyWorld and went on a Disney Cruise to the Caribbean for Caitlin’s parents’ 40th wedding anniversary. Collectively, Chris and Caitlin have been to Europe, Belize, Brazil, Alaska, Hawaii, the Bahamas and numerous Caribbean islands. We cannot wait to see the rest of the world with our family!

Top Ten Things We Love To Do (in no particular order)

1. Play games together (video and board games)
2. Pizza and a movie every Friday night
3. Road trips to anywhere!
4. Weekend breakfasts at greasy diners
5. Celebrating holidays and birthdays
6. Take hikes/walks with Rosie
7. Hangouting by our firepit and make smores
8. Family art projects
9. Taking family vacations
10. Hanging out with friends and family

We can’t imagine the difficulty of this journey you are undertaking and the strength you must have to endure it. We would like to take a second to say, thank you! Thank you for considering adoption and all that goes with it. We are hoping to have an open relationship with you and your family, and that your child knows and speaks of you often and lovingly. We are open to visits, pictures, video calls etc. Whatever you are or are not comfortable with is totally fine by us. Thank you for spending a moment to take a peek into our unique family. Our entire family is made up of some of the most open and accepting people imaginable. If we are fortunate enough to be picked as your new extended family, please know that we would raise your child to be a strong, independent, free-thinking individual who knows where they came from and of all the people who love them. We promise to talk lovingly about you and your family to them often.

Thank you, 

Chris & Caitlin