Hello, we’re Matt and Alex

Dear Mama,

Thank you for taking the time to get to know our family. We know that opening an adoption profile can hold so many different emotions, and we don’t take for granted that you are here, considering what might be best for your baby. We truly hope you experience peace as you read over our profile and others to find the perfect family for your child. 

Although we haven’t met you yet, we have been praying for you and your baby. We’ve asked God to surround you both with peace, wisdom, comfort, and people who will care for you well throughout this journey. 

Adoption has been a beautiful and deeply meaningful part of our story. It brought our daughter, Maggie, into our lives, and we have experienced firsthand what an incredible privilege it is to be entrusted with a child through adoption. We always knew that adoption would be how we’d build our family, as we are unable to have biological children. For us, adoption has meant love multiplied, not divided. 

If you were to choose our family, we would welcome your child with our whole hearts. We would be affectionate, nurturing, playful, and deeply invested parents. We would treasure the little things—the sleepy cuddles, bedtime stories, family adventures, music in the kitchen, scraped knees, belly laughs, and all the ordinary moments that make up a childhood. More than anything, we want our home to be a place where your child feels safe, known, celebrated, and completely loved.

We also want your child to know that their story includes you. We would speak about you with love and honor and make sure they grow up knowing how deeply their mother loves them. We would be honored to build a relationship with you, too, in whatever way feels right for you.

Thank you for considering our family and allowing us to share a little of who we are with you. Whatever you ultimately decide, we are praying that you experience peace, wisdom, support, and love in this season.

Our Story

Our Marriage Story

We like to joke that we met “the good old-fashioned way”: online! Within minutes of chatting, we discovered that we had several mutual friends and many shared values—and senses of humor—and we quickly hit it off.

On our first date, Matt was drawn to Alex’s confidence, intelligence, humor, and smile. Alex was drawn to Matt’s tenderness, ability to listen, wit, and curls. We were also drawn to each other’s character and our shared Christian faith. From that first date, we both had a feeling that this could be something really special. We couldn’t wait to keep spending time together. During our dating days, we spent time getting to know each other’s friends and families and finding little adventures wherever we went. We ate a lot of ice cream and sushi, took long walks and talked for hours, and made countless trips to parks and beaches. Our confidence in each other only grew as time went on, and we got married on New Years Eve, 2021. 

We’re so thankful to have found each other. We would describe our marriage as tender, gracious, and filled with laughter. We’ll celebrate five years of marriage this December, and after all these years, we’re still each other’s favorite person to come home to.

Our Family

We are the parents of our beloved daughter, Maggie, who joined our family through adoption. She is almost two and is an absolute delight. She is friendly, sweet, funny, sensitive, and incredibly joyful. She loves being outside, exploring new places, listening to music, and being with the people she loves.

And she is very interested in babies. Anytime she sees one, she points and excitedly squeals, “Baby!” She loves babies and is already fascinated by the idea of being a big sister. We can easily picture her wanting to help, cuddle, and show a new little sibling all the things she loves.

Maggie’s adoption story has been a beautiful and unexpected part of our family’s story. We were connected with her birth mother through local acquaintances, and it turned out that Matt already knew her from several years earlier, while Alex had mutual connections with her family. It was such a surprising connection, and we’ve always felt grateful for the way our paths crossed.

Maggie has been with us since birth, and we stay connected with her birth mother through regular texts, life updates, and visits. We are deeply grateful for the trust she placed in us and for the relationship we have been able to build over the past two years.

In our home, Maggie’s birth mother is always spoken about with honor, respect, and love. Maggie is growing up knowing that she has a mother who loves her deeply and that she is surrounded by people who love her. Our experience has taught us so much about the beauty of open adoption and the courage, love, and trust that are part of an adoption story.

As we hope to grow our family through adoption again, we carry that experience with us while recognizing that every adoption relationship is different. We would want to listen to what feels right for you, building a relationship grounded in honesty, respect, and mutual trust. We would be honored to know you and to make sure your child grows up knowing that their story and their mother will always matter to us.

Home sweet home

We live in a bright, welcoming Craftsman in a historic neighborhood. Originally built in the 1890s, our home has the character of an old house with the comforts of a modern one. Our favorite part is the backyard—a little garden with stone pathways where Maggie loves playing with her water table, helping water the plants, and smelling flowers. We also love filling it with friends and family for grillouts and campfire circles.

Our kitchen and dining table are at the heart of our home. We gather there to eat, talk about our days, pray, read our Bibles, sing, paint, and play games. There is usually music playing somewhere, and we love welcoming people into our home. We hope it feels like a place where our children always know they are loved and belong.

We’re grateful to raise our family in the Pacific Northwest, with mountains, forests, and the ocean all close by. We love hiking, camping, paddleboarding, tidepooling, and simply getting outside together. Our neighborhood is quiet and walkable, with parks, playgrounds, and other young families nearby. Maggie already loves being outside and exploring, and we look forward to giving our children many opportunities to discover new places, get a little muddy, and experience all the beauty our home state has to offer.

We’re especially thankful that both of our extended families live close by. Our children will grow up surrounded by grandparents, aunts, uncles, and cousins who are excited to be part of their lives. We’re also blessed by a church community that has become like family. Because Matt is a pastor, our children have “honorary” aunts and uncles, close family friends, and lots of other little ones to grow up alongside.

More than anything, we hope our home is a place where our children feel safe, known, joyful, and deeply loved—and where they always know they belong.

Our Favorite Ways to Play

We love finding little ways to have fun together, whether that means an adventure outdoors or a slow afternoon at home. Some of our favorite things to do are:

• 🎶 Making music — Matt plays guitar and Alex plays piano, both at home and at church. Music is a big part of our family life, and we love singing together.

• 🏕️ Getting outside — We love camping, hiking, paddleboarding, and exploring the beautiful places around us. Sometimes it’s a full camping adventure, and sometimes it’s just a short hike or afternoon outside.

• 🐚 Exploring with Maggie — Library trips, the aquarium (Maggie can’t get enough of the jellyfish!), cooling off at spray parks, collecting rocks and shells at the beach, and discovering new places are some of our favorite ways to spend a day together.

• 🚲 Neighborhood adventures — We love going on family bike rides and taking advantage of the parks and trails close to home.

• 🌱 Gardening — We enjoy growing things together and getting our hands dirty in the garden.

• 🍳 Cooking together — Our kitchen is a gathering place, and we love cooking meals together and trying new foods and cuisines.

• ❤️ Time with our people — Some of our favorite days are the simplest ones spent with grandparents, extended family, and close friends.

• 🌺 Family vacations — We especially love visiting Hawaii, where we spend our days snorkeling, boogie boarding, swimming, eating taro donuts, and enjoying time together in the water.

  We hope our children grow up with a childhood filled with both little everyday adventures and big memories—lots of time outside, plenty of laughter, music in the house, and people they love all around them.

Fun Facts About Us

We thought we’d share a few little things that might help you get to know us beyond the basics:

• Matt used to perform improv comedy and has written more than 100 songs. He loves making people laugh and is almost always creating something.

• Alex once kept an actual journal ranking her favorite ice cream flavors and can identify most birds, plants, and dog breeds. She loves noticing the little things in nature and is usually the first person to point out a bird or flower that everyone else walked right past.

• Day jobs: Matt is a pastor, and Alex is mostly at home with Maggie but also works part-time as a chemo nurse. 

• Dream jobs in an alternate life: Matt would write for Pixar, while Alex would be a marine biologist exploring the ocean and chasing sea turtles. 🐢

On Parenting

Parenting Maggie is one of the greatest joys of our lives. We genuinely love the everyday parts of raising a little person—not just the big milestones. 

Alex is nurturing, attentive, and patient. Before becoming a mom, she worked as a pediatric intensive care nurse, caring for critically ill children and their families. That experience taught her to stay calm, notice the little things, and care for children with confidence and tenderness. Today, being a mom is her favorite role. She  loves turning ordinary moments into little adventures and training moments—Maggie helps her tear cabbage leaves while she cooks, water the garden, and pick flowers, and sings “wipe, wipe, wipe” while cleaning the table after dinner. When big toddler feelings come, Alex is a calm presence who helps her feel safe, understood, and loved. 

Matt is playful, affectionate, and completely delighted by children. He loves making Maggie laugh, creating little games, helping her learn, and making her feel seen and special. He wants his children to know their dad is both a playmate and protector—someone they can trust to have fun, teach them about God and the world, and keep them safe. He’s also happy to volunteer for the poopy diaper. 😂 

We love parenting together. Alex brings tenderness, patience, and an instinctive attentiveness, while Matt brings playfulness, instruction, and an enthusiasm for being involved. We balance each other well, and we often look at each other in the middle of an ordinary parenting moment and feel incredibly grateful that we get to do this together. We treasure the little things—reading Good Night, Gorilla for the hundredth time, laughing at hilarious little antics, comforting big feelings, cuddling and nuzzling a sleepy baby, and showing up day after day. 

We know we won’t be perfect parents, but we hope our children always know that home is a safe place to be fully themselves, bring us their joys and struggles, and know without a doubt that they are loved. We would be honored to bring that same love to another child.  

Thank you!

A Note to You

Thank you for taking the time to get to know us and for considering our family. We know that choosing an adoptive family is an incredibly personal and meaningful decision, and we don’t take lightly the possibility of being entrusted with your child. It would be one of the greatest privileges of our lives.

If you choose us, we promise to make sure your child grows up knowing how deeply loved they are—not only by us, but by you. We will speak about you with honor and tenderness and will always respect the important place you have in their story.

We would also love to build a relationship with you, at whatever pace and in whatever way feels right for you. If you desire it, we would be happy to share photos and letters and, as our relationship grows, hopefully find opportunities to see one another in person. We want to listen to what you hope for this relationship and honor the boundaries that feel right for you.

We are already praying for you—for wisdom, peace, courage, and comfort as you walk through this decision. We hope that, if our family feels like it may be the right fit, we have the opportunity to meet you, hear your story, and get to know you. Most of all, we want you to know that we pray you find the perfect adoptive family for your child.