John & Kimberly Osborne

Hello, we are John and Kimberly! We appreciate you taking time to read our story and learn more about us.

Our story began at church in March 2010. Kimberly started attending John’s weekly bible studies, and John attended all Kimberly’s softball games. We were “just friends” spending all our free time together for many months while our friends waited for us to realize we were actually dating. We finally became “official” after Kimberly broke her arm playing softball. John immediately took action taking Kimberly to the ER and caring for her afterwards. In April 2011, John popped the question on one of our walks on the Greenbelt, and we were married that September.

We have always wanted to grow our family through adoption. We had our first son, Sam, a couple years after we married without trouble. When we decided to grow our family four years later, we struggled with secondary fertility. During this time, we tried fertility treatments, but ultimately decided adoption was what we desired. While in the infant adoption program, we became pregnant with our second son, Gideon. We paused our plans for adoption until our youngest son was older. We are back in the infant adoption program, excited with the opportunity to grow our family through adoption, and we are looking forward to welcoming another child into our family.

One thing people don’t always realize is domestic adoptions run anywhere from $30,000 and sometimes substantially higher to cover everything from making sure we are going to be great parents to doing the searching and matching, legal fees, and even health care.

Our goal is to raise $50,000 to make sure we are ready for any and all expenses that come directly from the adoption process. Much of which can come due at a moment’s notice.