Hello! We’re Chris and Steve from San Francisco, California.

We count ourselves lucky to have found each other and have created a life together, and now we can’t wait to welcome a child into our home. We are so grateful for your courage in considering adoption and for taking the time to get to know us.

We have experience with adoption on both sides of our family. And even though we don’t know you or your specific dreams for your child yet, we know that even considering adoption shows your strength as a person and the love you have for your child. Being parents together has been our dream since the day we met, and we are excited to start our family through adoption.

Our story begins 20 years ago, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. We had both started a new job at the same office (we’re both architects) and hadn’t met one another until one momentous day at a design meeting, where we started sketching ideas together for a new project. With a wink and a glance across the room, a spark ignited, and we haven’t looked back since!

From the start, the two of us connected over a love of the great outdoors. One of our first dates was a day long canoe trip down a peaceful river in Pennsylvania. We’ve gone backpacking in the mountains of Italy where Chris’s grandfather was born, snowshoeing in the Sierras, and whitewater rafting just a few miles from our weekend house in California’s Gold Country.

Traveling is really important to us and is a way to learn more about ourselves, while we learn about others. We are lucky to have friends around the world to make our journeys more meaningful and connected to the local culture. We have visited Chris’s relatives in Italy, our close friends in Spain, Chris’s college friend in Malaysia, and the hometown of our friends in South Africa.

We also appreciate the simple pleasures of quiet days at home. Chris grew up in a home where the kitchen was the heart of activity, and he can easily spend an entire day in the kitchen whipping up a delicious meal. Steve loves to curl up with a good book by the fire on a cold winter day, while listening to his favorite albums from our vintage collection.

We absolutely love being architects! Chris had the great fortune of collaborating with Steve Jobs on the design of Apple Computer stores all around the world, from New York to London to Tokyo. Steve works on great buildings for communities, including city halls, libraries, and beautiful urban parks. After many years working on different projects, we are working together again, where our projects keep us close and will allow us greater flexibility to work from home while we care for our future child.

Chris has a relatively big family: Two sisters, 10 cousins, and lots of aunts and uncles, and plenty of fun family gatherings. Chris and his sisters, Beth and Susie, all enjoy long-distance running, and holidays often involve everyone getting together for a “Turkey Trot” or a “Jingle Jog”. We enjoy watching our nephew play college football, going to the zoo with our niece, and learning how to play Minecraft from our 10 year old nephew.

By comparison, Steve’s family is small and close-knit. His mom and his sister Kathy, along with her family, all still live in his hometown of Tampa, Florida. We try to see them twice a year, and get to go on incredible adventures with our nephew to the splash park, Legoland, and the warm Floridian beaches. At the end of the day, we come home to Grandma C’s famous cookies and board game night!

We are fortunate to have a great network of friends in San Francisco, and we have learned so much from their experiences raising families in the city. Our friends Chris and Kevin, who live close, recently welcomed twin baby boys through open adoption. We look forward to spending time together with our families.

We love city and country living! We are very fortunate to have two places we call home, one in the heart of San Francisco and another in the California countryside. Your child will enjoy the best of both city and country life.

Our home in the city: We live in a beautiful two-bedroom home along a tree-lined street on San Francisco’s Nob Hill. Our home has beautiful wood details, lots of natural light, and a cozy fireplace for snuggling up on long winter nights. Our next door neighbors are a couple with a newborn child, and we look forward to play dates with them!

Although we live in a big city, our neighborhood has the charm of a small town, and we can walk anywhere we need to go. We even have the pleasure of walking 15 minutes to work every morning. San Francisco is a perfect place to raise a child, with so many beautiful parks, beaches and museums to explore!

Our home in the country: Seven years ago, we bought our weekend retreat home on 3 acres of land, with a panoramic view of the Sierras. Our neighbors are deer, wild turkeys, and coyotes. Here we enjoy nature to its fullest: we have a vegetable garden and fruit trees, we enjoy lots of beautiful hikes in the forest, and visit the local farms for fresh eggs and homemade berry pies. We can’t wait to share this peaceful slice of California.

Thank you for taking the time to let us share our story with you. We are so incredibly grateful that you are considering us as your child’s adoptive fathers.

If you end up choosing us, we promise to raise your baby with unconditional love and support.

With love and gratitude,
Chris & Steve