Chris & Erin

A warm welcome to you from Oregon! We are a fun-loving, creative couple who is family-oriented. We have been married for 18 years and are so excited to finally become first-time parents through adoption!

About Us

We enjoy going to church and praying together, traveling to new places, and enjoying all of the beauty and adventuring there is to do in Oregon–paddle-boarding and boating on lakes and hiking trails nearby, driving to the Oregon Coast, going to local concerts, sitting around a campfire, playing games with close friends and family, skiing, and visiting the steam-powered railroad Chris grew up on as his father worked on repairs and engineered.

Our faith is very important to us, and we have always felt that adoption has been placed on our hearts. What brought us to adoption is our strong desire to become parents and our love for children. We’ve both always wanted children, but we’ve experienced unexplained infertility. We look forward to growing our family through adoption!

About Erin

Chris says: Erin is a strong, beautiful, loving woman with a deeply caring, compassionate, empathic, and encouraging nature. She is an amazing musician/vocalist and loves to use her gifts to help others grow closer to Jesus. She plays music with the worship band at church, in a local gigging band, and teaches music. She enjoys taking care of our home and is a fantastic cook. She looks forward to becoming a mostly full-time stay-at-home mother, reading to them, teaching them God’s Word, making music, and demonstrating God’s everlasting love. She strives for excellence, is always learning, and is one of the very hardest workers I have ever known.

A little of what Erin enjoys:

About Chris

Erin says: Chris is a deep-thinker, nostalgic, one of the most caring and loving people I know, and can make me do the ‘belly laugh’! People love being around him because he is very relational, wise, and shines Jesus’ light to those around him. Chris helps me pause, take in the scenery, and appreciate it. He is gifted in helping others, a hard worker, and became an Eagle Scout when he was young. He does every job with artistic integrity and through the lens of God’s love. Chris is a handy-man and a fantastic cook, and is enjoying learning Spanish. It has been an adventure remodeling our craftsman-style home together. He looks forward to reading to our child, teaching God’s Word, building model trains and LEGO, and demonstrating God’s everlasting love. He wants to teach them all he knows and hopes to build them up with good character and as a good citizen.

A little of what Chris enjoys:

Our Extended Family

We both have fairly large extended families, and both of our parents and stepparents are an active part of our lives. A lot of our family members live in Oregon, within a half a days’ drive, so we try to get together with them at least a few times a year! We occasionally keep in touch with our few relatives that live further away. Erin’s dad is Italian, so family reunions are a ton of fun with games, Italian cooking, and lots of laughter! We have a handful of very close friends that live in our town that we consider family. All of our extended family and friends are so excited to hear that we have plans to adopt, and they have been very supportive of our decision.

Some of the family traditions we’re excited to share with our future child are:

Our Home in Oregon

We live in a smaller, rural neighborhood in Eastern Oregon. We’re currently in a 3-bedroom craftsmen-style home that we remodeled together, with a lovely porch and porch swing. We chose this specific place because of safety, being in a small-town community. We live blocks away from a major hospital, schools, the post office, and downtown.

We have plenty of room for a nursery and for a little one to play in the living area of our home and explore in the small, fenced backyard. We’re excited about decorating our nursery with earthy tones and tasteful simplicity. A couple of our favorite things about our home are its spacious and open concept feel in the living and kitchen areas, its creativity, and that it’s cozy and inviting.

Around our community there’s lots to admire:

Our Promise

We promise to love and cherish your child with all our hearts. We promise to bring them up in a Christ-centered home that shows them how valued and loved they are by us and by God. We promise to support them in the discovery and pursuit of their passions, and give them a well-rounded education that will encourage their curiosity and exploration and support their schooling after high school, if they choose. They will always have a huge support system surrounding them, including us, our close friends, our church community, and our extended family. We are looking forward to all of the love, joy, laughter, and traveling that we’ll be able to have with our future child. We also promise to honor you! Your child will know their adoption story, and we will ensure that you are always talked highly of. We are excited to share photos, letters, and scheduled visits with you, and open to the amount and form of communication you would like to have. We’d love to get to know you and hear all about your hopes and dreams for your child!

We’d love to talk or answer any of your questions. Please call or text Lifetime at 1.800.923.6784.

In Closing

We're so grateful that you took the time to get to know us as you make plans for your child's future! We're overjoyed and have been truly blessed with this opportunity to become first-time parents through adoption! We are so excited to bond with, love, and treasure this child as they grow! We can't wait to get to know you and hear about your story! We’d like to build a relationship with you where we can possibly share letters/emails/photos and occasional visits as your child grows up, whatever level of contact you're comfortable with moving forward. We are praying that the Lord blesses you and gives you peace and wisdom in the rest of this journey.

Warmly, Chris and Erin