Our Profile

I updated our profile on the right side of the blog since I realized that it was way outdated (it said we were waiting to adopt our baby.) But I am putting the old information here to save it for posterity, and in case someone down the road starts reading the blog they will know a little more about our story.

Jim was raised in Green Bay, WI. Colleen grew up in Wadsworth, IL as one of 11 children. We met at church in Chicago in 1993, and were married on August 20, 1994. We lived in San Diego, CA until June 1995, and then moved to Norfolk, VA where Jim was stationed on board the aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt with the US Navy. He spent most of the first 4 years of our marriage at sea. He got out of the active duty in 1998 and continued to serve in the Reserves as an Intelligence Specialist while attending Old Dominion University. He graduated with a BS in Accounting in December 2001. We decided it was time to return to the Midwest in June 2003 and are loving it here in Wisconsin. We celebrated 10 years of marriage in 2004 with a dream vacation to the French Quarter of New Orleans and then a 7-night cruise that included gliding in the Jamaican jungle, swimming with stingrays in Grand Cayman, and exploring the Mayan ruins of Tulum. We were thrilled to adopt an amazing baby Josie from China in June 2006. Now Colleen does home daycare and watches Josie grow up quickly!