Daniel & Dana

Hi!  We are a family of three who loves Jesus, enjoys exploring new places, building sandcastles on the beach, having fun outdoors, and chasing down the snow cone truck as it makes its way through our neighborhood.

We are honored that you have considered us as a family for your precious child. We are so excited to grow our family through adoption again. Our hearts are open to adopt a girl or boy of any race and we promise to surround them with an abundance of love.  We are happy to have occasional visits, phone calls, and share letters, photos/videos, or whatever you are comfortable with.

About Us

We have come to love, trust, and cherish one another in a very special way, but the real gem at the center of our family is the relationship we have with Jesus Christ. As the youth ministers at our church, we stay young at heart while providing a positive influence in the life of every child we meet.

Whether at home or on a trip, we love to play together, pray together, and work through life’s struggles together. We knew very early in our marriage that adoption would be a part of our family. We began taking adoption classes in 2014, and later that year Dana had to have an unexpected hysterectomy. That same year we were blessed to adopt our son, Luca, who was almost 3 years old at the time. As a family, we love Friday night movies on the couch with homemade popcorn, weekend water parks, apple picking in the mountains, and sharing new experiences with the people we love. Every day may not be perfect, but there’s always something to make you smile when we come together.

We look forward to growing our family once more and are excited for all the new memories and moments we will share with our next child, from finding out their favorite color to seeing their expression the first time they eat ice cream.

Meet Dana (By Daniel)

Dana is a bright, compassionate, determined, fun-loving woman with a heart of gold. She homeschools, keeps a clean and beautifully decorated home, and takes wonderful care of Luca (our son) and me each and every day. Most of all Dana loves to laugh and her laughter is contagious. She always has a new recipe to try and makes the best spaghetti sauce! Dana absolutely loves to plan family trips, bake up some goodies, and take care of her plants. She enjoys hosting family gatherings, drawing happy characters, building Legos with Luca, and decorating for each season inside the house and out. She is an amazing mom and, when not doing school with Luca, Dana likes to do crafts and play video games with him. I know that her heart is longing for the day when she gets to love and cuddle and care for another precious child. She looks forward to making their favorite foods, watching their favorite cartoons, and rocking them and singing lullabies until they fall asleep after bedtime stories with lots of stuffed animals. She is fully devoted to being a stay-at-home mom and making sure that our children have beautiful childhood memories.

Meet Daniel (By Dana)

Daniel is kind, loving, hard-working, and honest. He has a huge heart for others and loves to get his hands dirty working in the yard, fixing his excavator, or making some kind of mess in the garage. He was a Machinist and Mechanic before he went back to school to become a Mechanical Engineer, so he can fix almost anything! Even though his job requires him to design and build complicated systems for customers like SpaceX and NASA, he never takes himself too seriously. Any time there is a group of kids laughing or having fun, you can usually find him at the center of it all. Daniel is gentle and wise, and he always knows how to calm down a difficult situation. He likes to share his enthusiasm with others, loves doing outdoor things like fishing or riding ATVs, and enjoys making homemade jerky. He is a very engaged father who loves trampoline parks, walking in the woods, playing games, or working on projects with Luca. He is excited to teach our baby how to walk, swim, throw a ball and ride a bike; and when they are ready, maybe even build a robot or a treehouse and/or dollhouse.

Our Son and Family

Luca is a confident 11-year-old goofball who always smiles and enjoys being silly. He loves making new friends, laughing, and all things Lego! Luca is excited to share with his little sibling everything he knows and looks forward to teaching them how to dance, make silly faces, do karate chops, and sing his favorite songs. He is excited to read to them, make them laugh, and is thrilled to become a big brother!

Much of Daniel’s family lives out of state, but we all keep in touch throughout the year. Daniel has 1 sister and a brother who has 3 boys. We all get together at least once a year to enjoy riding on Grammy and Grampy’s big boat, playing in the water, and having big family dinners. Most of Dana’s family lives very close by, and we all see each other multiple times each week. Nana and Papa pastor our church, and we often share meals with Dana’s aunts, uncles, and cousins.  Sometimes we take vacations together with Dana’s family, and we all get together for holidays like Easter, Thanksgiving, and Christmas, where we play Family Bingo!

All of our family and friends are thrilled to welcome another child into the family!

Our Home in North Carolina

We live in a very safe, somewhat rural, mid-sized subdivision where there is a family-like feel among our friends and neighbors. Our 2-story home is clean and inviting with 4 bedrooms. We like to splash and swim in the backyard pool on hot days and cozy up around the woodstove in our bright sunroom when it’s chilly.  There is plenty of space in our fenced-in yard for playing and running, and lots of trails in the woods for exploring. We enjoy using our back porch for grilling and relaxing. We have a dwarf rabbit, Coconut, who is sweet and cuddly as well as a goofy outdoor cat, Mr. O’Malley, who can usually be found out there enjoying himself in the shade.

We are just a short walk away from a private community beach, big community pools, a playground, and are only a few minutes’ drive from the ocean and all the annual festivals and events that take place in the surrounding coastal communities. We have a seafood festival, a chill festival, pig-pickings, blueberry festival, mum festival, mullet festival, and so many more. We are both trained in CPR and first aid and Daniel’s sister is an RN. We have a short drive to local hospitals and only a couple of hours from some of the best university medical centers in the country.

Our Promise to You

We promise to tell your child all about the story of their adoption, just as we did with Luca. We will tell them about you, teach them about God and His unending grace, and love them in all that they do. We will nurture them and provide a safe environment to grow and learn about how to love themselves and love others. We promise to kiss their boo-boos and go crazy when they do something special. We promise to rock them to sleep, sing them lullabies, read them stories, and cuddle them even when they are way too big to sit on our laps.

If you would like to learn more about us, please call or text Lifetime at 1.800.923.6784.

In Closing

Thank you for taking the time to get to know us better. We are looking forward to hearing from you and learning all about your thoughts and desires for your baby. We can't wait to begin this journey of open adoption with you and find the level of contact you are comfortable with. We are open to letters, emails, pictures, videos, phone calls, and or visits.