Allison and Seth

Hello! We are Allison and Seth and we live in Seattle. We love having our home full of people, whether it be our family over for a meal or a group of friends to play yard games. We have lived in California, Florida, Texas, Virginia, Montana and Washington, but have decided to make the Seattle area our long-term home. We’re fortunate to have a large family presence in the area, and we’re so grateful for the support and love they provide us with. The outdoor opportunities within a short trip from the city make us feel lucky to live here.

Allison grew up splitting time between her mother’s house in the San Francisco Bay Area and her dad’s house in Tacoma. She moved to Seattle in 2002 to attend the University of Washington for her undergraduate education. She now works in marketing operations. Seth grew up in Montana before moving to Seattle in 2007. After a 13-year career in finance, he now works for a nonprofit foundation focused on protecting our national forests. We are both fortunate to have the opportunity to work from home, while still having offices to visit on occasion.

We met at a cupcake shop in 2010 and started dating shortly after. Fate landed us on a dodgeball team with a group of 10 other 20-somethings, a team that is still playing together all these years later! We married in the summer of 2015 and in 2017 bought our first home, which we have spent the past seven years making our own. We were hoping to start a family after marrying but have struggled with infertility for several years. The struggle to grow our family helped us to grow closer as a couple. It became clear that open adoption was the best way for us to raise a child. The more we learned about open adoption, and the more chances we had to interact with and learn from people living in open adoption, the more certain we became that this was the best way for us to start a family while maintaining connections and relationships that can enrich everyone involved.

While we love spending time together, we also have our own hobbies and interests. Allison enjoys gardening, running, and rom coms while Seth enjoys tennis, yardwork, and scary movies. Allison is playful, kind, and detail-oriented, and Seth is sincere, reliable, and easy-going. We both adore our pets and family and will try just about any new adventure, at least once! We currently have one dog, a happy 5-year-old Norwegian Buhund named June. We have adopted 2 other dogs together over the years, as well as one cat.

We treat each other with respect, trust, and love and hope to share our values and passions with our future child and their birth family. We are excited to embark on the next chapter of our lives and look forward to building new traditions and memories. We hope to show our child and our child’s birth family our favorite parks, take them to our favorite places to eat, and explore life together in the years to come. We can’t wait to learn about our child’s birth family’s history, culture, traditions and experiences. With our help and encouragement, we hope our child understands their roots, feels connected to their heritage, and forms meaningful relationships with extended family members. We will be open and honest with our child, and hope to create a comfortable environment for them to discover who they are in all aspects of life. It is important to us that our future child’s birth family will always feel welcomed and included as part of our home and family.

Thank you for taking the time to read about us! Wishing you all the best.
Allison and Seth