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State We Live in: Alabama
Our Religion: Christian
Stay At Home Parent: Yes
Our Age Preferences: Newborn-3 Months, 3 Months – 12 Months
Our Gender Preferences: Either Gender
Our Race Preferences: African American/Hispanic, Asian, Caucasian/African American, Caucasian/Asian, Caucasian/Hispanic, East Indian, Hispanic, Middle Eastern, Native American
Sibling Group: Yes
With oldest up to 18 months
Open to Twins: Yes
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We are looking forward to expanding our family again through adoption! We’re excited for the future family time, homeschooling, reading together, going to basketball games or ballet recitals, and every moment in between.
About Us
We met at our college campus ministry several years ago. After a year of being friends we started dating and not long after, got married! We’ve been happily married ever since.
From the start, we had thoughts of having both biological and adopted children, however, after being diagnosed with infertility we knew we were being led to adoption. About a year later we welcomed our son, Caleb Jr. (CJ), through adoption.
We love doing life together! We love playing games, cooking dinner, and doing puzzles together. As a family we enjoy snuggling and going on walks to the park with CJ. We are looking forward to expanding our family again!
Meet My Wife, Jalyn
Caleb says: Jalyn is one of a kind, strong and consistent. She loves God with a passion and is incredibly disciplined in her life and faith. She enjoys baking bread, cookies, and pastries. Jalyn enjoys watching the latest Korean drama and is an avid reader. Our home is filled with books ranging from politics, history, and the Bible to gardening, homemaking, and cooking. She is driven by knowledge and loves to learn. She is currently learning French and teaching our son as well. She’s the most organized person I know and enjoys planning events months in advance. These qualities help her to excel in her job as a systems engineer, as well as in the new year when she becomes a full-time stay-at-home mom. She would love to pass on her love for knowledge to our next child.
Meet My Husband, Caleb
Jalyn says: Caleb is the most remarkable person I’ve ever met and I’m very glad to call him my husband. He is godly, kind, intelligent, thoughtful, and leads our household well. He’s a great father to our son, CJ, and is excited to welcome another child into our home. He works hard at his job as a mechanical engineer and is passionate about his hobbies.
When he’s not at work, Caleb enjoys woodworking, playing video games with friends, rock climbing, and basketball. Over the last year, Caleb has remodeled our house, while working and going to school full time for his doctoral degree. He also loves the outdoors–hikes, camping, and fishing, and can’t wait to pass on the skills that he has learned to our next child, as well as his love of music.
Our Family
Our son, CJ, will be the best big brother to our next child. Though he is only 20 months old, he enjoys playing with other kids and babies. He also enjoys listening to books, dancing, playing the piano, and helping mix cookie dough. We love to spend a lot of time together outside and one of CJ’s favorite activities is our evening walks.
Not only will your child have an older brother, but your child will also have many aunts, uncles, grandparents, and even great-grandparents! All of whom are excited to spend holidays, birthdays, family vacations or even just a random Saturday together.
We both come from a family of 5+ siblings, and we enjoy spending time with all of them. It’s helpful that all of our immediate family live close by! Gathering to play board games is a big deal on both sides of our family. Everyone enjoys games like Risk and Clue. We also host game nights for more niche games like Pandemic, Munchkin, or even a mystery dress-up party. We can’t wait to pass on our board game tradition.
Sweet Home Alabama
We bought our house almost 6 years ago and have spent the last few years making it our home. Caleb has built most of our furniture; he even built the nursery rocking chair and will be building the crib soon! We are so excited for our future child to play in the nursery we’re creating.
Our home is an open concept with 4 bedrooms. Our favorite room is probably the bricked-in sunroom. It’s home to most of our indoor plants, swing beds, books, and the piano. It has floor-to-ceiling windows that we love to keep open when the weather is nice. It’s a great spot to read, nap, play the piano, or simply enjoy looking at the backyard and hearing the birds chirp.
Our house backs up to a pond with frogs, ducks, cranes, and other wildlife that we can’t wait for our next child to experience. Our home is conveniently within 10 minutes of both of our parents’ houses, so your child will spend lots of family time with the grandparents.
Our Promise to You
We promise that your child will first and foremost be raised in a loving Christian home. Next, we promise that your child will grow up surrounded by a support system of caring family and friends. Finally, we promise that your child will get a myriad of life experiences ranging from a great education, traveling, learning valuable life skills, playing sports, and studying the arts to rainy day cuddles on the couch, comic book movies, k-drama marathons, and board games with family. We are excited to share our life with your child! We look forward to sharing pictures, letters, and once-a-year visits with you!
We’d love to talk or answer any of your questions. Please call or text Lifetime at 1.800.923.6784.
More About Caleb
Education: Master's in Divinity
Profession: Mechanical Engineer
Stay-At-Home: No
Racial Background: White
His Favorites:
Food: Pizza
Dessert: Cheesecake
Movie: Star Wars
Show: The Office
Hobbies: Woodworking
Color: Green
Christmas Activity: Eating & playing board games
More About Jalyn
Education: Bachelor’s in Industrial and Systems Engineering
Profession: Systems Engineer
Stay-At-Home: Part-time now, but full-time after the first of the year
Racial Background: Black
Her Favorites:
Food: Fries
Dessert: Choux à la crème
Movie: Planet of the Apes
Show: Crash Landing on You & Doctor Who (9-12)
Hobbies: Family Time
Color: Green
Christmas Activity: Decorating the Christmas tree & baking
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More About Our Family
Our Faith
Raising our children in a Christ-centered household is very important to us. We believe in not just going to church on Sundays but living out the Christian faith on a daily basis. This means living out Biblical principles such as faith, love, patience, a heart for serving others, and repentance. Being involved in ministry as a family is also important to us. We have led youth and college ministry, and are currently on the servant leaders team for a new church plant. Your child would be actively involved in church and community outreach projects in our family.
Family Traditions
Since we have been married, we have been intentionally crafting our own family traditions. A couple of our favorites are family days, birthday weeks, and starting Christmas on Nov 1st.
-Our first family tradition is a family day or date. It’s a time where we spend all day or part of the day together. It’s an intentional time were we just focus on us and hang out. It can be around the house, watching movies, playing games and baking cookies, or going out to the park.
-Our second tradition is that we begin celebrating the birthday individual the week leading up to their birthday. Each day they will get a gift or an activity that gets more meaningful as the week progresses. On their birthday, we go to our favorite French Patisserie for breakfast followed by a family day spending time doing activities that they love, and ending the day with their final gift and a big dinner.
-Our third tradition is starting Christmas on Nov 1st. We love the Christmas season, especially getting to decorate the house. So, on November 1st we get out all of our decorations and have a family day decorating. Each year we go to the store and pick out a new Nutcracker to add to our collection. Then as we decorate, we bake cookies, drink hot chocolate, watch Christmas movies, and listen to music.
Our Pets
We have 2 dogs:
Teddy is Jalyn’s 11-year-old poodle. He loves long walks, playing with kids, and eating food that spills on the floor.
Tesla is our 4-year-old schnauzer. She’s a bundle of energy who loves to fetch and jump on and over furniture.
Why We Love Where We Live
We love Alabama and more specifically our city! For Jalyn, this was where she was born and raised. Caleb and his family moved here from Virginia when he was a child, and he considers himself a native. Both of us couldn’t think of anywhere better to live. Having our family here is a huge blessing because we get to hang out with everyone at least once a week. We also love our church community where we get to serve there, and in our city, both of which are values that were instilled into us at a young age that we would love to pass on. Our city is also special because of the climate. We get all four seasons and if we want something more extreme, we're not too far from snowy mountains or the beach. Our city is extremely safe and the perfect place to raise children.
In Closing
Thank you for taking the time to learn about us and consider our family for your child. We are excited to provide a home where he or she will
grow up with love, encouragement, resources to pursue passions, and an overwhelming sense of family. We can't wait for couch snuggles, bath times, reading books, volunteering, sporting events, and family vacations. We look forward to sharing photos, letters, and once-a-year visits with you as well!