Breanne & Grant In Nebraska

We actually met on an online dating site about 9.5 years ago. I thought he was cute to start and kept going back to read his profile, but I would never send a message. He noticed how often I would check his profile and finally decided to send the first message since I obviously wasn’t going to be the first to make the move!

Bre was born in Oregon but has lived most of her life in Nebraska. She is the 2nd of 3 siblings. Grant grew up in Colorado until his family moved to Nebraska at the start of high school. He is the oldest of his two siblings.

We love to travel and enjoy visiting the local zoos wherever we are. We love trying new restaurants, going to concerts and are both sports fans (although we cheer for opposing teams in every sport!) We are huge animal lovers and have 2 dogs and 3 cats that were all rescues.

Bre has worked in customer service and Retail and Restaurant Management for most of her career. Currently, she is in Small Business Sales for insurance at a large company in Omaha. Grant has worked in warehouse and delivery positions as well as Retail Management. He currently works for the Nebraska Department of Corrections in the Youth Facility.

We bought Bre's grandparent's home a little over 3yrs ago. She grew up coming over to the house every weekend and holiday! We live in Papillion, NE which has been voted multiple times as a Top 5 place to live in the US. It really is a sweet, little suburb of Omaha. It’s about 25k residents, mostly families that have been in the town for generations. We are just a few blocks away from the downtown area that is just beautiful. They do a remarkable job decorating for Christmas and have festivals throughout the year, a 4th of July block party and so much more.

Our home is a 1960’s Ranch style home. We have 4 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms, a full basement that will be remodeled in the next few years, and 2 car attached garage. We have a bedroom picked out right next to our master bedroom that will become the nursery. Our kitchen, dining room and bath have been recently remodeled. We live on a corner lot right across the street for the high school. With it being a corner lot, we have a large fenced in backyard and extended patio – lots of room to run around!

We are both very close to our families. Bre has an older brother and younger sister who was adopted by her parents when she was eighteen. Her brother has 4 children and 5 bonus children who all live in Oregon. Grant is the oldest of his two siblings. He has a younger brother who is married with 3 children.

Bre’s parents and sister live about 12 minutes from our house. Summer weekends are usually spent in the pool they have in the backyard! Grant’s parents are about a 20 minute drive and we see them just as often! We are also very close to Grant’s Grandma who recently moved from Ohio to be closer to family. We try to do Friday Date Nights with Grandma a few times a month just to spend extra time with her!

Adoption is certainly not a foreign concept to us. Bre’s mom was adopted as a toddler, her sister was adopted from Russia as an infant and her Aunt has 3 daughters adopted from China. We love seeing families grow no matter how that comes to be!

Our family traditions have blended over the last 9.5 years. We spend Christmas Eve with Grant’s family and get to see the kiddos opening and playing with their gifts. We then spend Christmas morning with Bre’s side of the family. Bre’s family used to have 40+ people in her Grandparent’s home for every holiday with family traveling from all over. With the grandkids all starting to have their own families, it’s a bit more spread out, but her parent’s house is a gathering place for most.

We love spending time with friends! We karaoke, go to concerts, Christmas parties or even just grabbing lunch and catching up. They are certainly our chosen family members to us! Bre enjoys photography, cooking, gardening and decorating/designing. We bought her Grandparent's home about 3 years ago and she has been designing and remodeling it ever since! Grant enjoys keeping the large yard looking great, washing and detailing our vehicles, fishing, hiking and going to the gym. He has also coached and played recreational baseball and hockey.

We love to travel! We have been to Mexico, Boston and NYC just to name a few places. There are so many more places we dream of visiting too! We are huge football fans, although as previously mentioned, we like opposing teams. We enjoy going to football and hockey games when we can as well.

We have been trying to grow our family since we got married a little over 7 years ago. We have been through 7 years of infertility treatments, different diagnosis and multiple surgeries and we're still unable to have a child ourselves. We want more than anything to have a child to share our life and love with, regardless of if we are able to carry the child ourselves. That is what has led us to our adoption journey.