We are Daniel and Natosha from Pennsylvania. We started dating in high school our freshman year. Daniel joined the Marines about a year after high school and served five years while Natosha went to college. We married in 2010 and moved to NC, where Daniel was stationed at the time. We now live back near both our families in PA. Daniel enjoys fishing and watching hockey. Daniel is a CDL truck driver for a small local excavating company. Natosha likes to spend time at the lake where she grew up, crafting, and doing anything outdoors. Natosha is an office manager for a manufacturing company. We love to plan family get-togethers in our backyard for most holidays and celebrations and just spend quality time with our loved ones. We are so thankful to spend time with Daniel’s very large family and to make new memories as much as possible.

Daniel's family all lives nearby. Daniel’s parents are still married, and he has two brothers and twin sisters. We have a total of 11 nieces and nephews from his side of the family. We typically do dinner once a month, if not more; Daniel’s mom makes the best home-cooked food. All the kids enjoy getting together. We try to celebrate every major holiday with dinner or cookouts with Daniel’s family. For Christmas, we have dinner and play lots of games with prizes. We all enjoy this time together. We also love to fill about 1,000 eggs each Easter to have an Easter egg hunt with all the kids.

Natosha was raised by a single dad and has one brother. We have two nephews, a niece, and a great-niece from Natosha’s side of the family. Her brother lives in Colorado. We like to visit him and his family at least once a year and do all the traditional tourist stuff while exploring the mountains. Natosha’s family loves to get together at our cottage on a lake to celebrate the Fourth of July and enjoy campfires, kayaking, and swimming. We occasionally like to ice fish on the lake when the lake freezes over. Our nieces and nephews on both sides of the family enjoy our cottage.

We bought an older home in a very small town in Pennsylvania just down the road from Daniel’s brother and his family. We live in the part of PA that gets cold and snowy winters, but we also get some amazing summer weather. Our home is in one of the best school districts in the area; it has excellent academics and sports teams. We have two huskies named Daisy and Duke and three cats named Dixie, Spike, and Drax. We have a nice-sized, fenced-in yard and a fire pit to enjoy the summer nights. We live in an area where we can walk our two huskies in the warmer months and take them to the lake to our cottage or just walk down the road to see a few of our nieces.

We began trying to start a family about nine years ago. Since we have been unsuccessful in having biological children, we started talking about other options. We decided adoption would be the best way to grow our family. Natosha has always wanted to adopt a child regardless of having biological children or not. We both know we are meant to be parents and know at this point in our lives, we are ready to be the best parents we can possibly be.