Meet the Fam

After reading numerous blogs about people's adoptions journey, I was inspired to put my families own journey in writing. Although the future adoption is tentative, and our journey ahead is a long road, I have faith that this experience will be one worth recording. Already thus far in our adventure, there have been many beautiful moments and lessons learned, that I feel need to be shared and remembered by our family.

Let me first describe my family. My mom and dad are proud parents of four children. My oldest brother is 25, his names Jacob. He went to UTI in Arizona then BMW School in Texas. He now works at BMW Seattle as an auto technician. I am the second born, my name is Justine and I am currently a senior at Western Washington University in Bellingham, WA pursuing a finance degree. Joseph is the third born, he is a freshman at Seattle University also pursuing a finance degree. Jillian is the baby of the family; she’s a junior in high school who loves volleyball and hanging with her friends.

My mom and dad have been an amazing duo for 26 years last January. I swear they are even more in love than the day they got married (when they were 19 and 20 years old). My dad works at Boeing and my mom runs an in-home daycare. They share one true passion, and that's for kids. Raising them, being around them, and helping them. They have devoted their entire lives to our happiness and have never been closed-minded to expanding our family even further!