We're grateful you're here to help us on our journey. We met 6 years ago and have been married for 2. We are excited to start the next chapter in our lives and one thing we've always talked about is that we both always wanted to have kids. We love our lives and can't wait to spend the rest of our lives together with our future kids. We are both close with our families and want to have a family of our own. As a same sex couple having children is very costly through adopt or surrogacy. We ideally would love to do surrogacy so we can have children that are biologically related to at least one of us and be able to go through the pregnancy and birth process, but know the cost and opportunity might not be feasible so we are very open to adoption. Adoption can run upwards of $40,000 per child and surrogacy upwards of $125,000. The funds we raise will be used to either adopt at least two kids or go through surrogacy and hopefully have twins, we want to have at least two kids. If we meet our goal that would get us about half way to what we need to start a family. We are determined to have children no matter how long it takes, building a family is a top priority for us. We are fortunate to both have good jobs, Scott is a intra-operative BSN, RN and I (Casey) am a purchasing/cost analysis manager for a local company. Being able to save enough to go down either path would takes us until we're in our mid/late 40's and we don't want to wait that long to grow our family. We know there is financing out there but we are not willing to take out a loan in the hopes that we will be able to have children. We've heard horror stories where people take out loans for thousands of dollars and devastatingly don't have any children in the end. Each month they have to make that payment for the child they had hoped to have. We've looked into fostering to adopt but the potential risks and pitfalls are too great for us to consider this as an option. The fostering process can take years and has the potential for the child to be separated after a significant bond has formed. Our hearts could not take that constant worry that a child could be taken away at any moment to go back to their birth family that they were originally removed (or separated) from. We hope you share our desire to not only build our family but our families family with more grandchildren, nieces, nephews, cousins, and kids. Family has and always will be very important to us. With all that being said, we are asking anyone who wishes, and able, to contribute any size gift to our fund to start a family. From the bottom of ours hearts we are truly grateful for any support we receive on this journey through contributions and/or sharing with those who may be able to help as well. This is going to be the most important goal we will achieve and thank you so much for your help.
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