Hello! We are Eric, Kristy, Isabelle, and Treysen. Thank you for taking the time to look at our profile! We hope this helps you get to know us a little bit, and we hope to get to know you, as well. We are a family that loves to have fun and spend time together. We are a spiritual family and serve in our church. We like being with extended family, friends, and in the outdoors. We believe in education, hope our kids know that they can do whatever they put their minds to, and are excited to see what they will do in the future.

We met when we were just seven years old when Eric moved around the corner from Kristy. We both eventually moved away from those houses but kept in touch and started dating in high school. After graduating high school, Eric served a two-year mission to Brazil for our church. We got married a year after his return, in 2002. We have known each other most of our lives and can honestly say that we are best friends!

After trying to have biological children for many years without success, we were blessed to adopt our sweet daughter Isabelle in 2015 and three years later, our happy boy Trey. We feel that one more child is meant to join our family, and we are excited for our kids to have another sibling. They are excited as well!

One of the first things I noticed about Eric was his blue eyes! And then after we started dating, I noticed how attentive he was to me. He is a very kind person and willing to help anyone. I feel like he really puts others' needs before his own. He is super mechanical and can fix anything - whether it be a car problem, a mower, or something in the house. He is an outside-the-box thinker and will come up with a solution even if it isn't an obvious one. This has saved us lots of money! He enjoys boating and motorcycle riding.

He is a Civil Engineer and manager at his company. He works with dams and automating gates, security systems, cameras, etc. Sometimes, he travels for work around our state or surrounding states, but most of the time, he works from home. That is quite a change from his previous job, where he traveled all over the world! He has learned about many other cultures and people.

One of my favorite things about Eric is what a good dad he is to Isabelle and Trey. He loves to play with them and be around them. He always lets them tag along when he is working on something and gets a kick out of the funny things they do and say. He jumps right in, helping me take care of the kids, and I love that he is a hands-on dad. We are very blessed to have him in our lives.

Eric's Favorites:

Food: salad bar

Hobbies: motorcycle or dirt biking, boating, playing guitar

Dessert: ice cream

Season: winter

Dream vacation: snowmobiling/playing in the snow and staying at a cabin in the woods

Kristy has one of the biggest hearts of anyone I know. She loves dearly and has a lot of patience for our kids. Whether it's our nieces and nephews or kids in the neighborhood and at church, she cares so much and is always willing to give of herself to help them.

Kristy loves to spend time with family. She enjoys playing games, reading, cross-stitching, playing the piano, and just hanging out with our kids. She has a big heart and truly cares about other people, and she is also goofy, silly, and playful with our family.

She used to work as a loan officer and operations supervisor for a credit union, so she is very responsible and knows how to manage money. After Isabelle was born was able to become a stay-at-home mom and loves doing that. Kristy is the greatest wife and mother and will do anything she can to take care of her family. She is a light and blessing to me, our kids, and everyone she meets.

Kristy's Favorites:

Food: tacos, lemonade

Hobbies: reading, crocheting, photography, art, playing the piano

Dessert: chocolate chip cookies

Season: fall

Dream vacation: Hawaii

About Isabelle

Isabelle is our spunky, sassy, funny girl. She is a petite young lady with big brown eyes and an even bigger personality. Isabelle definitely knows what she wants! She has tons of energy and is forever doing tumbling moves or cartwheels to get around---she never stops moving! She looks a lot like her birth mom, and they both enjoy reading and dancing and have the same favorite color---purple.

Isabelle is quite the singer, dancer, and gymnast. She learns quite easily and has a natural rhythm. We often hear her singing in her room first thing in the morning.

She is a very social person and loves to be anywhere there are people. She likes school, loves to go to church, and play with her friends or her cousins. She also loves animals and has made friends with all the neighbor's dogs. We sure can't imagine life without her!



Isabelle's Favorites:

Food: crepes

Hobbies: drawing, tumbling, dance

Dessert: sugar cookies

Season: summer

Dream vacation: Oceanside, California



About Treysen

Treysen is our happy, loving, sweet little boy. He is in preschool, which he loves! He inherited his easy-going nature from his birth parents. He loves to play with trucks, Jeeps, and tools. Treysen will follow Dad around whenever he is working on anything, dig out his pretend tools, and get to work "fixing" things for me. What he loves most is playing with Isabelle. They are best friends and,for the most part, get along very well.

Trey loves sports, especially to play catch, and has been anxiously awaiting the day he is old enough to play T-Ball.

Treysen is the best hugger and is attuned to other's feelings. He is a very affectionate child and loves snuggling. We can't get enough of him!

Trey's Favorites:

Food: apples, chips, crackers

Hobbies: sports, playing with toys

Dessert: chocolate chip cookies or anything chocolate

Season: summer

Dream vacation: camping

We live in a four-bedroom house in a suburban/rural area. One of the best things about our house is our big living room, where we have lots of room for active kids to play.

Our neighborhood is quiet, with many trees and a variety of age groups, from young couples to families with kids to older retired individuals. Our next-door neighbors are super sweet grandparents who treat our kids so nicely. The kids love to roll down the neighbor's hill in the summer and sled down it in the winter.

There are some goats and horses nearby that we visit on walks. We live very close to the library and splash pad and frequent several parks in the area. We also live close to the preschool, elementary school, and our church.

We live an hour away from most of our extended family, with the exception of Eric's sister, who lives 10 minutes away. Our kids can't get enough of their aunt, so we are glad she lives close. The kids also love going to visit their grandparents and sneak cookies and chips from their kitchens! A couple of times each month, we enjoy playing with cousins, whether it is visiting at home or going on vacation together. Our extended family has always been supportive of our adoption journey.

We enjoy taking yearly family vacations to the shores of California. We stay in a condo with a pool, and Eric and the kids love spending most of their time playing in the water. Hanging out on the beach and listening to the ocean is something Kristy loves, and of course, the kids like to play in the sand. We enjoy going to theme parks like Legoland and Disneyland or sight-seeing in Oregon.  We also enjoy visits to the kids' great-grandmas.

We love to spend time in the mountains, whether it is camping or just taking a day trip in the Jeep to have a picnic. Movie and game nights at home are among our favorite times, accompanied by our favorite treats: popcorn and cookies.

We love holiday traditions! Isabelle's favorite holiday is Easter---there is always an egg hunt around our house on Easter morning. Isabelle loves searching for the eggs, and Trey loves eating all the candy!

For the 4th of July, we often visit our grandmas. Much of Kristy's extended family gets together to have a picnic up in the mountains, where it is cooler during the day, and we watch the parade and fireworks at night.

For Halloween, the kids enjoy dressing up for school and for trick-or-treating, and going to the straw maze, which Trey really enjoys. We also like to pick pumpkins at a farm just outside town and then paint or carve them.

We usually spend Thanksgiving with grandparents and cousins. We enjoy cutting down our own Christmas tree up in the mountains after Thanksgiving and wearing snowshoes to make it easier to hike around in the snow! We read the Christmas story in the Bible on Christmas Eve, and the kids always get to open matching pajamas.

Christmas morning is spent at home with just the four of us, and we go visit family in the afternoon. The kids love opening presents and finding candy canes that Santa has left on the tree. Isabelle loves checking out her Christmas stocking as much as opening presents. We are excited to welcome another little one into our holiday fun!

Thank you again for taking the time to look through our profile. We really admire you for your courage in considering adoption and pray that you will have peace in whatever decision you make.

We enjoy being able to have an open adoption and contact with each of our children's birth moms, whether through letters, pictures, texts, emails, or video calls. We have had fun with voice texts. We would love some level of openness and contact with the child's birth parents. We can't wait to share our lives with a baby and give them everything we have to offer.

Isabelle and Trey are blessed to not only have two parents who love them but also birth families that love them and are a part of their stories. We talk to the kids about their birth moms frequently and would do the same with another child. We would always want them to know how much they are loved by us and by their birth family.