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Our Story Begins...

Our story begins in 2011 when we first met and was truly love at first sight. We both had very similar interests, morals, and strong family roots... we quickly became each other's best friends, almost seeming too good to be true. Over our years of dating, the subject of starting a family of our own came up from time to time, and we both knew this was something we would want someday.


In late 2013 we started to get more serious about our discussions and started doing research on different avenues we could take to create our family. We spent months researching adoption, foster care, and surrogacy, quickly realizing that each had its own hurdles which became quite overwhelming. Ultimately we decided that our ideal scenario would be to go through surrogacy, even though financially that wasn't in the cards for us yet.... so we tabled the idea for the time being.


In early 2014, Ryan found out that one of his high school friends was going to be a surrogate for a couple in a similar situation, and that reignited our dream of starting our own family! We both realized that we couldn't start the process at this point as we had already decided to start construction on our forever home. We did know that marriage was in our future and ultimately decided that we would do whatever it took to start a family after we got married and settled into our new home, even if that meant going through a different avenue.


Then in late 2014, Trent surprised Ryan with a proposal and a beautiful ring with the idea of having our wedding in our new home once finished. While waiting for our new home and setting a wedding date, we were able to learn so much about the process through Ryan's high school friend and her journey, she was also the one that introduced us to an agency right here in our home state that is known worldwide as one of the best surrogacy agencies for same-sex couples, so our research and dreaming continued, even though it seems so far out of reach for us.


Fast forward to late 2015, and we finally closed on our new home and get settled in, dreaming about the day we can fill the empty bedrooms with little ones! We also set our wedding date for 2016 on the same day we met, July 7th, having a perfect intimate ceremony in our home with our family and closest friends. Life then got a little busier... as in late 2016 we were featured on national television for our high tech holiday light show on our house, which kicked off a new business venture for Ryan.


Starting a family was always in the back of our minds and over the next 3 years we worked hard, saving every penny possible to be able to start this venture as we felt surrogacy was the route for us. Fortunately, all our hard work was paying off and by the end of 2019, we were finally ready and in a position to be able to make our dream a reality! So we hunkered down, revisiting everything we had already learned about surrogacy, and diving into even more research over the next couple of months. We definitely felt overwhelmed and lost with everything that had changed over the years since we had last researched and didn't know where to begin. So yet again we delayed the conversation for a bit... but not for long.


It's now January 2020, and well... we finally made the decision to move forward while on a cruise with our family. Being on vacation gave us the uninterrupted time we needed to talk about it more in-depth, realizing how life-changing this would be for us, and just to confirm this is what we wanted... and without a doubt, this was WHAT we wanted! So on our last stop in Aruba, we wanted to "seal the deal" and our deal to each other was to purchase our first diaper bag as a symbol and reminder of our commitment. So that's what we did and then made the announcement to our families and friends. This will forever be one of the best days of our lives, to finally make that commitment and have our family and friends be so overjoyed for us, truly amazing and heartwarming all around.


So this is where our story starts and we couldn't be more excited to get the process started once we return home!





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