We’ve both always known we wanted to be parents, and after being together now for over 10 years, we couldn’t be more excited. We are both really looking forward to spending time together as a little family, watching our future child grow and try new things! We can’t wait to see what interests they have.

For us, being parents means supporting and protecting our child as they enter the world, encouraging things they’re passionate about, and doing our best to guide and nurture them. We’re excited to work together as a team through it all – we’re even looking forward to the sleepless nights and all the challenges that come with being parents, because they’ll be new challenges we’ll tackle together! We can’t wait for little moments like reading together or going on a walk around our neighborhood. And we dream about big plans for the future, like going on trips and showing our child our favorite places, or going somewhere new together as a family. We’re excited to see them learn and grow! We live a life full of love for each other and our families, and we truly have so much love to give!

We share so many different hobbies together and we can’t wait to share them with our future child. We love spending time outdoors in beautiful, sunny California. From a day at the beach to a hike at our favorite local trail on the beautiful green hill by our home, we love an opportunity to soak up some Cali sunshine. We both love music and enjoy attending concerts together. We’re excited to take a future parent-and-me music class, and take our child to their first concert!

We love to play games together and with our close group of friends. We play video games and board games, and we work really well as a team completing several challenging two player video games together! We look forward to being able to have board game night as a family. We’re both very passionate about environmental conservation and taking care of our communities, so in our spare time we also like to do beach clean-ups and trail clean ups. We are also animal lovers and like to walk the dogs at our local shelter. We think it is important to stay involved with our neighborhood and surrounding communities, and often go to weekend events at our local park and library. We are very passionate about doing the things we love with each other, and we know these things will be made even better when we bring along a little one!

One of our biggest hopes for our future child is that they always have a strong understanding of who they are and where they come from. Cultural heritage is an important part of every individual's life and growth, and we plan to support them in learning and growing within their culture. We would like to find local classes for our child to learn the language of their culture, and to learn the history of their cultures together as a family. We also strongly believe that you can emotionally connect with your culture through art, so we plan to find resources for our child to be immersed in the arts of their culture, whether that be through music, dance, food, art, etc. We would also like to find cultural centers for our future child where they can connect in person with other people. Whether that be a local class, a local cultural center, or social club - we want to find opportunities for them to connect, not just through books or learning, but directly with other people. If their culture spans outside of the U.S. we’d also love to travel with their child and see cultural monuments or important historical sites together! Our neighborhood is culturally diverse, and we are lucky to have a community that celebrates that. We are very excited to play a part in fostering interest and excitement in the child’s culture, while also learning more about that culture ourselves!

We are lucky to have a very close knit family, and both sets of grandparents are very (VERY) excited to welcome a grandchild. They are just as excited about adoption as we are and will love your child with their whole heart. Chloe's Dad Doug lives nearby and comes over for weekly dinners. Grandpa Doug is a woodworker and has made a lot of the furniture in our home, he can't wait to make toys and furniture for a grandchild! We also love going to food festivals together and trying new dishes (especially desserts)! Scott's parents live in Henderson, Nevada, but we see them often as Grandma Lisa is retired and Grandad Sean is a commercial pilot so they get to hop on a flight over any time they want! Scott's family loves to go to sporting events (hockey and football especially) and play video games in the evening after dinners together! (Rock Band is a family favorite!)

We also have a very close friend group of over a decade, several of whom were our college roommates! They all still live nearby and we meet up weekly for movie nights, board game nights and family dinners. Several have children already and we are godparents to an amazing 2 year old girl. We're a silly bunch that loves any excuse for a group costume or a themed dinner, and they're all so excited to welcome this child to the pack!

We are lucky to live in a small, quiet, and welcoming community just outside of a bigger town with lots to do! Every summer our street shuts down for a huge community fair, and we love to head to our local farmers market on the weekends for fresh produce.

Your child will have a large room with a window looking out to the green hills of the valley and Chloe's balcony garden, with a dedicated bathroom. Our complex has 3 other families with kids on our floor, from newborns to school age, and we love to spend a sunny afternoon by the pool downstairs.

Chloe changes the front door decorations each month, and the kids love to come by and see what Tom (the plastic lawn goose) is dressed up as. We get to walk to our favorite stores, restaurants, and parks, and there are always families out and about enjoying the weather and tree lined streets. We are excited to some day join the other parents who walk their kids to our Charter elementary school just two blocks away.

We spend most of our family time in our living room, with our fireplace on and our big comfy couches. Our cat Murphy likes to look out the window at our large balcony, which is home to lots of tropical plants that thrive in the California weather. The bright pink and orange hibiscus, and lovely smelling Jasmine are our personal favorites.

Hello, our names are Chloe and Scott. We can't believe the day has finally come that we are writing this letter. We cannot thank you enough for taking the time to read it and hopefully consider us.

We first met in college, where Chloe was studying art and Scott was studying theater. Chloe always liked Scott but was never quite brave enough to say anything. Luckily, the stars aligned, and we ran into each other one day several years later - and Chloe wasn’t about to miss her second chance! We’ve been together ever since and are coming up on a decade together. We were married in the beautiful forests of Big Bear in 2021. We’ve built our lives together in a wonderful, supportive community in California, enjoying the sunny weather and time with our big network of friends and family. We’ve been thoughtfully planning for our future family and we’re so excited (nervous, but so excited!) to take the next steps together as parents. We hope to be joyful, strong, and patient. Scott will be great at turning difficult moments into laughs! He is so excited to be a dad - to protect, support, and love a child, and to see the type of person they will become. The thought of including a little one on family vacations, of bringing them to sporting events and of sharing his passion for music with them makes Scott extremely thrilled for this chapter in his life. Chloe will be great at teaching them the many things she is so great at and passionate about. She can't wait to read bedtime stories, do art projects together, and enjoy a walk around the neighborhood with the baby.

For Chloe, as long as she can remember, she’d known that her grandpa was not her biological Grandpa, that he had adopted her mom a long time ago, and that it was an important part of her mom’s life and history. What she remembers most though is how strong and beautiful their bond was. How clearly, they were meant to find each other.

While Scott has not had as much experience with adoption as Chloe had growing up, he has wanted to be a father his whole life and is so grateful for the opportunity to do so now. The process of preparing for adoption has taught Scott a lot and has only reinforced that adoption is the right path for his family. He cannot be more thrilled to take this next step with Chloe.

Adopting was never a backup plan or a consolation for us - this has been our first choice, and our dream of a lifetime. We know firsthand that love knows no bounds, and that the more people in a child’s life who love them, the better. We have dreamed of the day we can hold and love your child and promise to be there for them as the best parents we can possibly be for the rest of our lives.

We look forward to sending you letters and updates, pictures and videos, and if you’d like to, we’d love to have future phone calls, FaceTime's, and visits throughout their life. We’re excited for you to get to see this child grow alongside us.

If you were to choose us, it would be the biggest gift we could ever receive, and the greatest joy of our lives.

Scott & Chloe