Thank you so much for taking the time to get to know us. It is a brave and loving act to consider adoption, and we have enormous respect and admiration for this path. Our family is ready to grow, and we’re honored that you might become part of that journey. We welcome an open relationship and will always speak of you with honor and love in our hearts.

It sounds cliché to have met in college, but of course we did – on our first day, during our first class no less! She was the witty girl making him laugh and he was the handsome guy rocking the vintage sweaters who could keep up with her banter. We started out as friends, joining class volunteer projects in the community, and soon fell for each other, working ever since as a team, through thick and thin. After finishing community college in 2007, we moved to Oregon to finish our bachelor’s degrees. We were married in 2011, in an orchard under our favorite tree, surrounded by friends and family.

We had always wanted to grow our family through adoption, though we welcomed our biological son, Benjamin, in 2020. The pregnancy and birth were very difficult, and we decided that pursuing another pregnancy was not in the cards. Now, we feel ready to expand our family and bless Ben with a sibling, knowing this path to parenthood has been on our hearts for a decade and we are finally in a place to see this dream play out. We have adult and child adoptees as friends and in our extended family, strengthening our connections to the adoptive family community.