Hello! We are Kris & Ric from sunny Southern California. We know that you have a lot of choices when it comes to finding adoptive parents so we are honored and appreciate your consideration of us among them.
We are also excited to share our journey together with you – including the opportunity to get to know you on a personal level.
Having children has always been something we wanted. We understand that being a parent doesn’t only mean having a baby of your own DNA. To us, parenthood means having the opportunity to love, care for, and to raise a child with unconditional love – regardless of whether we gave birth to them or not. It is the depth of the relationship between all of us that matters most.
As Parents, We Promise That:
• Your child will be loved unconditionally – not only by us but also by our friends and family
• Your child will be given every exposure and opportunity to succeed in life
• Your child will always be safe – you will never have to worry about their well-being
• Your child will be taught about their background and heritage so that they will know where they came from
Our Story: We met online in 2009. We both love to eat and we both love sushi – so naturally our first date was at a Japanese restaurant. As our relationship blossomed over two years, Ric nervously proposed to Kris during a cold and wintery trip to Montreal, Canada. Luckily, Kris said yes and today we live in a lovely house in Playa Vista, California.
We love food and we are open-minded when it comes to cuisines. We guarantee that if you put any dish in front of us, it will most likely be gone in a matter of minutes. One of our favorite things is to invite friends and family over to our house for dinner. Some of our favorite cuisines include: Japanese, Peruvian, Mexican, Italian and Vietnamese. We are also pretty good at cooking meals – from seafood, to pasta, to authentic Vietnamese dishes. Admittedly, Kris is way better at cooking – but Ric is great at cleaning dishes.
We think it is important for us and our future child to travel and learn about different races, cultures, and religions. We make it a point to go on a couple of trips every year. We’ve been to: Rome, Venice, Naples, Florence, Milan, Barcelona, Paris, Madrid, San Sebastian, London, Dublin, Bora Bora, Hawaii, Vancouver, Whistler, Montreal, New York, Nashville, San Francisco, Boston, Seattle, and Jackson Hole.
We Believe In A Balanced Life: We are both fortunate to have extremely flexible schedules. More importantly as future parents, this means that we are able to work from home whenever we want. Kris’s work is based from home so she doesn’t have an office to commute to, and Ric’s office is only 5 minutes from our house.
We are both serious when it comes to work but we believe it is equally important to have balance in our lives. Our friends and family always remark on how easy our relationship is. We complement each other’s strengths and weaknesses and the end result is seamless teamwork.