Welcome to our family!! We are so excited to be considered as a family for your baby, and we are delighted that you would like to get to know us better! We promise to give your child a home full of love, laughter, and happiness. Being parents is THE MOST important part of our lives. We love boating, traveling, and being involved in our kid's extracurricular activities (ie. Cub Scouts, soccer, basketball, baseball, swimming to name a few). We do everything as a family!!
We cannot adequately express how much we respect you and this courageous decision you have made to pursue an adoption plan, and we look forward to learning more about you too. As you read through this, we wish you hope and peace that your child will grow up loved, cared for, and cherished. Thank you for considering us!
About Us
We met over 20 years ago in high school (age 16) and have been inseparable ever since! After we graduated from high school we decided to go to college together and got engaged during our junior year. We were married after graduating from college at a beautiful winery amongst our closest friends and family. It was a perfect day full of love! We did a lot of traveling and got our Masters Degrees over the next seven years. In 2012 our first son was born. Then we welcomed our middle child in 2015 and our youngest in 2018 into our family. They have been such a blessing, and we love them unconditionally! They are the best of friends too!
Robert
I love to travel and support my kids in their interests. I am a soccer, basketball and baseball coach for my sons as well as a Committee Member for my son's Cub Scout Pack. My ethnic background is German, and I have 1 sister who is engaged and planning her wedding for June.
I love to eat burritos, and my favorite color is blue. I also speak Spanish with near fluency, and I am currently working with our sons to learn as well!
Erin
I love spending time together as a family, traveling, and organizing. My ethnic background includes ties to Italy and Germany (Pennsylvania Dutch). I have 1 sister and 1 brother who are both married and live nearby. My parents also live 20 minutes away. They LOVE their grandkids and spoil them like crazy!
I love Italian food, and my favorite color is purple. I am also known to make a delicious chocolate chip cookie!
Kyle
Give this boy a ball, and he will entertain himself for hours!! Kyle loves soccer, basketball, baseball, and pretty much any other sport that he plays. This year he has also started Cub Scouts. He loves his brothers fiercely and is a good protector!
Blake
Blake has a kind and loving soul. He has a vivid imagination and loves to play with all things pirates. We often find him dressed up like Captain Hook or Peter Pan or quietly playing with his pirate ships and crew.
Alex
If his brothers want to play with something Alex wants to play too. He is Mr. Independent and wants to do everything his brothers are doing. His laugh is infectious and his snuggles are magical. This little man has everyone wrapped around his finger!
We have been so blessed with 3 happy and healthy boys. We would love to add another child to our family as well! The boys promise to LOVE their sibling with all of their hearts.
Our Adventures
We love traveling, and we believe that it is important to travel both domestically and internationally with the kids so they are exposed to the world and not just the state/country they live in. Every year we take an annual beach trip, and both sides of the family come together for the week! We also take every opportunity for a long weekend or other trips throughout the year. Our family enjoys everything from the beach, to the mountains, to the city!! Exploring history and learning about different cultures has also been a big focus of our vacations. Our goal is to run out of pages in our passports through traveling together as a family!
We have also been working on a goal of visiting all 30 major league baseball stadiums for the last 15 years. We started in 2005 at Safeco Field in Seattle. Most recently we visited The Great American Ballpark in Cincinnati, and this was stadium #24 for us! Robert loves to watch the games, and Erin loves to visit the different cities so we always stay for a minimum of a long weekend to get the best of both worlds! The kids have really enjoyed getting to visit the different stadiums and cities too! Trying ice cream in every stadium has also become a fun tradition for all!
Our other Interests and Hobbies
In the summer boating with Grammy and Pop Pop is one of our favorite weekend activities. The kids love riding in the boat, fishing and even tubing. When we are at the beach, we spend our time swimming, searching for seashells, and making sand castles. In the Fall we love to visit the farm, carve pumpkins, and play soccer. The winter is full of holiday traditions including decorating for Christmas, going on the Santa Train, Zoo Lights, and spending time visiting with family. Spring is also one of our favorite times of the year, and it is filled with baseball and cherry blossoms!
Thank you for your willingness to consider trusting your baby in our care. We are excited and grateful for the opportunity to adopt and know it's the right decision for our family. We dream of adding another child to our family. As birth parents you are very special, and we are looking forward to growing a relationship with you. We hope you realize that placing your child for adoption is something we will be eternally grateful for, and that putting your child's needs above your own truly is an act of love. We will love your child with all of our hearts should you choose to place them with us!
With Love,
Robert & Erin
