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Dan & Melissa

Thank you so much for reading our profile and getting to know us! Choosing us to be parents to your child would mean more to us than you could ever imagine. We greatly admire you for considering adoption as a means to offer your child life's greatest opportunities. We are extremely excited about the future and if you were to choose us, you would be fulfilling our most important life goal of growing our family.

About Us

Dan
Melissa
Job
Owner - Certified Residential Appraiser
Revenue Cycle Manager
Education
Associate's Degree in Business Real Estate
Master's Degree in Business Administration
Children
Kylie
Relationship
Legally Married
State
Wisconsin

Adoption in Our Lives

Our Little Family

"Two or three" is the answer we would have given 17 years ago if you asked us how many kids we planned to have. We were early in our careers and had just bought a house. Our plan was to wait a couple years before trying to start a family. A few years later, we realized that getting pregnant was going to be more difficult than we had ever imagined. Primary physician visits led to fertility specialist appointments. Our dream of becoming parents seemed to slip further away as we coped with the loss following each new treatment and failed attempt.

However, we were not willing to give up on our dream of becoming parents. We enthusiastically focused our energy on growing our family through adoption. Our dreams of loving and nurturing a child became our reality when we received a surprising call one afternoon. A beautiful baby girl was born and her loving and selfless birth mother had chosen us! Meeting our daughter's birth mother and aunt at the hospital gave us an opportunity to connect, take photos together and exchange contact information. Those photos and memories will always live on and help us share our daughter's adoption story with her; becoming a part of a scrapbook she can cherish forever. We are so grateful, and have so much respect for Kylie's birth mother and her most unselfish act of love. We promise to always honor that love and share that sentiment with our daughter. We enjoy sharing photos and updates with her birth mother and once she is old enough, we hope Kylie will participate in writing those letters. We view adoption not as the end of our long journey to parenthood, but as the start of us living and sharing our dreams with our children.

Our Leisure Time

At the Zoo

We know how to have fun no matter the season or what the weather is like. We stay busy and have a great time visiting zoos and aquariums, playing at local parks, sledding, snowmobiling, riding UTVs, fishing, playing volleyball and basketball, and attending concerts. When we are not attending concerts, we're listening to music at home and dancing around the kitchen together. We really enjoy attending professional sporting events and go to many Green Bay Packers and Milwaukee Brewers games each year and travel to Arizona for spring training when we can.

We love to take vacations and explore new places, but we also have a lot of fun at home. You will often find us sitting together in the living room, reading books with our daughter. We go for long walks around our subdivision and play in the backyard or on the family farm, where there is even more room to explore.

Our Family Traditions

We Love the Brewers!

We have everything from daily to annual traditions in our family. We spend holidays with extended family, attending mass and joining together for large family meals. Every summer brings a family reunion with hundreds uniting for swimming, playing volleyball, and competing in fun, family competitions like water balloon tosses. We tend to celebrate milestone birthdays with a huge amount of food, music and games. We have baseball tailgating outings each summer and attend as many Brewer baseball games as possible each year. We get together with siblings for cookouts twice a month and spend time riding UTVs on the farm or just hiking or snowshoeing in the fields. To us, the daily traditions can mean just as much as holiday traditions. With both of us working from home, we eat every meal together and always tuck our daughter in together for the night. Every moment is special, and family means the world to us.

Photos

Winter Wonderland
Winter Wonderland
Toes in the Sand
Toes in the Sand
Easter Day
Easter Day
Wisconsin Lakes - So Many Beautiful Reasons to Be Happy
Wisconsin Lakes - So Many Beautiful Reasons to Be Happy
Fun in the Sun
Fun in the Sun
Dan + Melissa
Dan + Melissa
Beach Day!
Beach Day!
Kylie & Daddy Hiking in Hawaii
Kylie & Daddy Hiking in Hawaii
Room to Run on the Family Farm
Room to Run on the Family Farm
Best Friends
Best Friends
Making Cookies With Cousins
Making Cookies With Cousins
Happy New Year!
Happy New Year!
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Winter Wonderland
Winter Wonderland
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Toes in the Sand
Toes in the Sand
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Easter Day
Easter Day
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Wisconsin Lakes - So Many Beautiful Reasons to Be Happy
Wisconsin Lakes - So Many Beautiful Reasons to Be Happy
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Fun in the Sun
Fun in the Sun
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Dan + Melissa
Dan + Melissa
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Beach Day!
Beach Day!
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Kylie & Daddy Hiking in Hawaii
Kylie & Daddy Hiking in Hawaii
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Room to Run on the Family Farm
Room to Run on the Family Farm
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Best Friends
Best Friends
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Making Cookies With Cousins
Making Cookies With Cousins
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Happy New Year!
Happy New Year!

Our House and Neighborhood

Home Is Where the Heart Is

We live in a moderately-sized city, located in scenic southern Wisconsin, where we enjoy rivers, rolling hills, farmland and woodlands. Perhaps what our city is best known for is its abundance of beautiful parks and recreational areas. Convenient boat launches, numerous ball fields, playgrounds, two public golf courses, tennis courts, over 2,300 acres of parkland and 25+ miles of paved bike/walking trails are just some of our community's amenities. We have numerous annual events in our community, including county fairs, seasonal festivals, holiday parades, fireworks and light shows. Attending festival concerts and sampling fair food are two of our favorite summer pastimes.

We live in a ranch style home with four bedrooms and two bathrooms. Our basement is finished with a large recreational room, weight room, half bathroom and laundry room. Our favorite room is the living room, where we watch TV, play games, talk about our day, and enjoy each other's company. We have plenty of space to grow our family!

Our house sits on over an acre of land that backs up to a field. We have a spacious yard for play and our neighborhood offers a perfect one mile, low-traffic walking/biking path. Families in our rural, residential subdivision vary from young couples just starting their families to retired people living with their grown children and young grandchildren. Our subdivision has a neighborhood park with several planned events, including an annual summer block party and a bonfire gathering after trick-or-treating each year.

Our Extended Families

Melissa's Family in Cabo

Our families are overjoyed with our decision to adopt again. We tried for many years to start a family and adopting our daughter was the happiest moment of our lives. We have six siblings between the two of us and six nieces and nephews. The addition of another child/grandchild/niece/nephew/cousin is highly anticipated. The grandparents, aunts, and uncles are eagerly awaiting baby-time and cannot wait to spoil another child.

Christmas Traditions

To say we have large family gatherings for birthdays and holidays would be an understatement! With many grandparents, aunts, uncles, and cousins nearby, there is always something to celebrate. Our families really know how to throw a party, with all sorts of food, music, and games for all ages!

We have family living nearby, so we get together often to play games, have family dinners or just hang out and watch movies. Every summer, we enjoy fishing, hiking, large cookouts (with way too much food) and Milwaukee Brewers outings. We spend many weekends in Melissa's hometown, which has proudly been named "The Waterpark Capital of the World."

We have siblings living in California and Idaho and traveling to see them always gives us something to look forward to, especially during the winter months. We love to spend time by the ocean and in the mountains.

From Us to You

We are so grateful that you are taking the time to read our profile and learn a little about us. We can only imagine how difficult this decision is for you and we want you to know how much admiration and appreciation we have for you. We have wanted a family for so long and adoption has allowed that to happen for us. Adding a daughter to our family, through adoption, was the greatest experience of our lives and we would love, more than anything, to care for another child (or twins!). We have a safe, secure, and loving home and will provide our children as many wonderful life experiences as possible.

We have been together for over 20 years and happily married for 17. We met in college and have been together ever since. Dan's hard work and dedication have allowed him to build a business where he can set his own hours and work from home. Being a part-time, stay-at-home daddy has been a goal of his since we began planning for parenthood over a decade ago! We struggled with infertility for many years and always came back to the idea of adoption. Adoption is an incredible gift that will grow our family, while positively impacting another, and we feel privileged to be on this amazing journey again!

We are a fun and energetic family that loves to travel and try new things. We are sports enthusiasts, watchers and players of several sports. We both grew up participating in sports, everything from ballet to hockey, and promise to let our children get involved in the sports of their choice. We love to cheer for our home state's collegiate and professional teams and have been known to mix our love for travel with our love for sports, occasionally traveling to other stadiums to watch our Milwaukee Brewers play baseball. We are excited to incorporate family-friendly activities into our future travels and to give our children fun and exciting adventures.

In addition to physical activity, we strongly value education, both in and out of the classroom. We will constantly strive to introduce our children to new, exciting learning opportunities outside of the classroom through participation in sports, clubs, music and other hobbies while encouraging continued dedication to classroom education. Some of our most cherished memories are from our school years and we want our children to experience the same enthusiasm we felt as children for both the learning and social aspects of a formal education.

Our daughter, Kylie, will be an excellent big sister. She is the happiest, sweetest little girl. We can already picture her showing her new sibling the ropes. She loves to rock her "babies" and read to them. She is always smiling and lighting up the room. She is so smart, walking and talking at a very young age. We both grew up with big families and wish for her to have at least one sibling she can share life journeys with.

As parents, we encourage the values our parents instilled in us with unconditional love. We are mindful to always lead by example, demonstrating honesty, integrity, hard work, respect for others, empathy, humility and kindness. Our children will love and be loved by us and the extended family and friends we hold so dear.

We cannot wait to experience new life adventures and create lifelong memories with our children. We have so much love to give and we know that your love does not end with adoption. We want you to feel assured that we will always honor you in our home. We will share your loving story and explain how, together with you, it became "our story". We want to develop a healthy relationship for all and would be happy to send you pictures and updates if it is your wish to keep communication open. If you have any questions for us after viewing our profile, please feel free to reach out.

With love and respect,

Dan & Melissa

Favorites

Dan
Melissa
Actor
Jason Bateman
Matthew McConaughey
Actress
Kate Beckinsale
Julia Roberts
Animal
Dog
Tiger
Author
John Grisham
Stephen King
Book
Celestine Prophecy
Where the Sidewalk Ends
Candy Bar
Whatchamacallit
Snickers
Cartoon
Family Guy
Family Guy
Childhood Memory
Camping with Family
Annual school shopping
Childhood Toy
Skateboard
Lego
Children's Book
The Giving Tree
Charlotte's Web
City
Boise
San Diego
Classic Movie
The Wizard of Oz
The Wizard of Oz
Color
Blue
Pink
Day of Week
Saturday
Saturday
Dessert
Polish Drumstick Cake
Graham Cracker Pie
Disney Movie
Lion King
The Little Mermaid
Dream Car
Bugatti Veryon
Maserati
Dream Job
Professional Baseball Player
Musician
Dream Vacation
Tahiti
Fiji
Family Activity
Watching Movies
Vacation
Flower / Plant
Oak Tree
Daisy
Food
Steak
Pizza
Form of Exercise
Weight Lifting
Weight Lifting
Fruit
Blueberry
Watermelon
Game
Baseball
Monopoly
Hobby
Hunting
Scrapbooking
Holiday
Christmas
Christmas
Holiday Song
Little Drummer Boy
All I Want for Christmas is You
Holiday Tradition
Family Gathering the Day of Christmas
Christmas Eve Mass with Family
Ice Cream
Yes Please!
Peanut Butter Cup
Junk Food
Skittles
Cheetos
Leisure Activity
Fishing
Listening to Music
Magazine
Men's Health
People
Memory with a Child
Our Daughter's 1st Birthday
Meeting our adopted daughter for the first time
Memory with Spouse
Honeymoon in Hawaii
Our Honeymoon
Movie
As Good as it Gets
Dirty Dancing
Movie Munchie
Popcorn
Buttered Popcorn
Movie Quote
Littering and...
Say Car Ram-Rod
Movie Type
Comedy
Comedy
Musical
The Sound of Music
Chicago
Musical Group
Eric Church
Matchbox Twenty
Nursery Rhyme
Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star
The Wheels on the Bus
Olympic Event
Hockey
Gymnastics
Personal Hero
My Father
My Dad
Play
Wicked
Wicked
Poet
Shel Silverstein
Dr. Seuss
Quality about my Spouse
Compassion
Ambition
Quote
"Leaders are made, they are not born." - Vince Lombardi
"Our hands are full, our lives are not"
Restaurant
Rare
Ruby Tuesday
Sandwich
Roast Beef
Turkey
Scripture
Psalms 23:4 Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for You are with me; Your rod and Your staff, they comfort me.
For he will command his angels concerning you to guard you in all your ways
Shopping Store
Cabela's
Banana Republic
Song
Some of It - Eric Church
Push by Matchbox Twenty
Sport to Play
Volleyball
Volleyball
Sport to Watch
Baseball
Baseball
Sports Star
Christian Yelich
Christian Yelich
Sports Team
Milwaukee Brewers
Milwaukee Brewers
Subject in School
Psychology
Math
Superhero
Thor
Batman
Thing to Cook
Steak
Spaghetti
Time of Day
Bedtime
Night
Tradition
Easter Church
Midnight Mass on Christmas Eve
TV Show
Game of Thrones
Game of Thrones
TV Show Character
Peter Griffin
Christy Plunkett from Mom
Type of Music
Country
Country, Pop & Rock
Vacation Spot
In-laws' Farm
Hawaii
Video Game
Super Mario Brothers
Super Mario Bros.

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