Norm & Amy

Parenting is the most important job any person can do. Adoption has been the blessing in our life to give us the opportunity to become parents. We look forward to the opportunity to complete our family with the adoption of a little girl. We can provide your daughter with a stable home with all the love in the world. Preferred Gender: Female

Norm Amy Job Description Groundskeeper for Local School District Elementary Learning Support Teacher Education Associate's Degree in Business Administration Bachelor of Science in Education Favorites Dessert Banana Wafer Pudding Dessert Brownies Dream Job Counselor Dream Job Run a Group Home for Disabled Individuals Family Activity Going for a Walk Family Activity Playing on the Swingset Hobby Playing Guitar Hobby Planting Flowers TV Show America's Got Talent TV Show Biggest Loser Children Adan-3 years old

Jamming with Daddy

We lead a family centered busy lifestyle. Quiet weeknights at home entail family dinners and time together. After dinner we either play outside or watch Sesame Street. Bath time, stories and snuggling come shortly after until it is time to brush teeth and tuck little ones into bed. After Adan is in bed we have our time together to unwind and talk about our day.

Weekends are much more hectic and on the go! We start Saturday morning by meeting friends at a local diner for breakfast. Adan loves this tradition because he gets to see tons of people who love to play with him. After breakfast we usually come home and spend time outside working in the yard, playing on the swingset, or we go grocery shopping. The weekends are also for spending time with Gram and Pap (Amy's parents) or hanging out with friends.

We are already imagining life as a family of four and how that will make our life complete. Adan is helping prepare the nursery for his sister. He enjoys going to the toy store and choosing toys for her to play with when she arrives home. He likes to look at books with babies and point out what his new little sister may look like. He even has a new shirt hanging in his closet waiting to be worn that says, "Big Brother."

We have decided as a family to wait to start family vacations until our family is complete. We want to start those yearly traditions all together. The vacation we are dreaming about is visiting Disney and meeting Mickey and Cinderella. We also look forward to many fall weekend getaways to the beach or mountains.

Our Happy Family

Adoption has positively affected our life greatly. We had the privilege of adopting our son Adan from Guatemala in 2008. He has been such a blessing to us and we spend as much time together as we possibly can. We cannot think of a better way to grow our family once again but to adopt another wonderful child.

We always knew we wanted to have children. After several years of not being able to have biological children we decided to adopt. We attended many classes to prepare us for this life changing event. During our yearly marriage conference we attend we had the opportunity to listen to a woman speak about how adoption touched her life. This sealed the deal for us. We knew adoption was for us and we didn't wait long before we were completing our home study and receiving our first pictures of our son Adan. We were blessed with the opportunity to visit Adan prior to the paperwork being completed to start the bonding process. The time went so quickly and before we could blink we were on a plane heading home and dreaming about the day we would return to bring our son home forever. On August 18, 2008 our dreams came true and Adan was officially our son, our "Gotcha Day!"

Adoption Group Friends

After returning home we celebrated Adan's homecoming by having a large open house to welcome him into our family and give everyone the chance to meet the little boy they have heard so much about. We collected many mementoes of this special day and had everyone write their welcoming words in a memory book for Adan to have when he gets older. Now that we have had the opportunity to celebrate his one year of being home, we started a tradition of getting our family together and celebrating this special day by going somewhere where Adan can have fun and play! We have also started a life book journal for Adan that we write in to chronicle all of the special memories that we as parents hold dear to our hearts that we want to share with Adan when he gets older.

Our life has been so wonderful since we became parents through adoption and we thank God everyday for our son's birth mother and her selfless decision to give Adan many opportunities that she was unable to provide for him. We talk to Adan all the time about being born in Guatemala and his wonderful journey into our family. He will someday know and understand how much his birth mom loved him and wanted the best for his future.