Hi! We are Tim and Lauren, and before we get into who we are, we would like to take a little time to thank you. We are an adoptive family and our beautiful boy Isaiah was adopted in 2020. We really admire the bravery and strength and uniqueness of birth mothers. We don't know your exact story, and we don't need to, but we do know that if chosen to be the parents of this child, you will be honored and loved in our home and in our stories. We always try to show compassion and respect when we speak of and pray for Isaiah's birth momma, and for you it will be the same. 

We pray for you every day. Thank you for looking at our profile. Hopefully something connects with you about us. We are a unique family. We actually love that we are a unique family and we love that there are a lot of us! We have eight kiddos, and you may be wondering how your child would fit in with or have enough of us as parents. 

We live and breathe family. It is at the center of our life. And not just because it is necessary. We love to be together, spend quality time doing new activities, go on vacation together, doing all the things that smaller families do but just on a larger scale. I (Lauren) get to stay home every day and I LOVE it. My children are best of friends. Large families are the best. Haha, I may be a bit biased. 

So as you turn the pages and wonder if we are the right family...we hope you would see our love pour through. We aren't the perfect family, but we sure do love one another and long for the best for each other. Pictures and letters never convey all that we would hope they would. We pray God would fill in the gaps as He always does as you look through this profile. 

As we thought about how we could encourage you in all that you are wrestling with right now, we thought a scripture verse would be best. "So do not fear, for I am with you; do not be dismayed, for I am your God. I will strengthen you and help you; I will uphold you with my righteous right hand." Isaiah 41:10