Dear Expectant Mom

Dear Friend,

We are amazed by the strength and courage that you have as you make your adoption plan. We can not even begin to imagine how difficult it must be to decide on who will parent your child. Thank you for taking the time to learn about us, our family and our lives! We hope that you will see how much we love our family, friends, each other and most importantly our future children.

When we first began to date we knew we wanted children and that we wanted to start our family as soon as we could. We both come from large families and loved it and couldn’t want to share in that joy. We’ve been married for over 5 1/2 years and the journey to parenthood has not been easy. I knew that adoption would be part of our story somehow. My mom was adopted as an infant, she put a baby for adoption and my step dad adopted my brother and I. In the past 5 years we have done over 25 different fertility treatments. 3 resulting in pregnancy and all 3 ending with miscarriages at around 8-12 weeks (reasoning unknown) After we found out we were pregnant with our third baby in 9 months, we were so scared. And I had this intuition that if we lost the this baby that it was our Heavenly Fathers way of saying hey there’s a baby out there but not with doing treatments. The morning of the 8 week ultrasound the heart beat that was there the previous 2 weeks wasn’t there any more and I was crushed. I am a young women’s leader for our church and the morning of the ultrasound also happened to be the last day of girls camp, and on the last day they do a testimony evening. The testimonies of these sweet girls just comforted my silent grief. As I was driving home that night I was trying to figure out how I would tell Trevor and tears ran down but I felt so comforted that adoption was the way we needed to go and to not continue with any new treatments, the dr said that ivf was our only option at this point. Trevor and I also said from the beginning that we would not pursue ivf. So it was like Heavenly Father sent those Heavenly babes of ours to say “oh hey you two! I have this amazing plan just trust me!” Our hearts became instantly open and we can’t wait to see what is I store. We are so excited to meet the baby or babies that God has planned for us to love and to share this beautiful life with and new part of the family with (which we hope is you and your family.)

Please know that your child will be loved unconditionally with our whole hearts and with all that we can give. We can’t even imagine what a difficult journey this is and has been for you. Please know that we already love you and have been praying for you. We know that you want nothing but the best for your baby. And hope that we can be everything that you could hope and dream for your baby. Thank you for considering us.

Love,

Trevor and Carrie Fuhriman 

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Our People

We have amazing people surrounding us besides the amazing family that we have. Our friends are beyond amazing and are the best support ever! and they almost all have the cutest kids for our future little to play with! We are lucky to have high school friends, college friends and local friends!
here are pictures of us with some of "our people" :)

 some of carries closest seattle friends getting some icecream (also one of carries faves)

 our wedding crew! all the grooms men have been some of trev's best friends since high school. and the bridesmaids have been carries friends for over 10 years! love these people.

 our church friends can put on some fun parties! 

 best friends since 2006 and still meeting up yearly

 carrie's workout buddies

carrie works with amazing people and are some of our good friends

Carrie also volunteers as a young womens leader but out of privacy couldn't load any pictures of them. but they are her world! 

Trevor and his friends never take photos but he has such a fun group of friends and coworkers that he talks planes, cars, weather (they are total aviation nerds and know everything about weather) and has a group of friends who he likes to go and bike ride with. 

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Our home

We live in beautiful north Idaho! In 2016 we built a house in Coeur d'Alene, Idaho. It has 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, and a huge open living room, dining room and kitchen! We absolutely love it and Carrie loves to decorate it, especially for Christmas. We live close to over 10 different parks, numberous mountains, lakes and Trevor think most importantly biking trails.

Other places we frequently (at least 4 times yearly) are 1. Idaho Falls, this is where Carrie grew up and where her family still lives and where 4 of Trevor's siblings live. 2. Seattle, this is where Trevor's family grew up and where we met and got married! Trevor's family has now since moved over to the North Idaho area. 3. Salt Lake City, Utah area because its where Trevor's sister lives and its just a fun area. and 4. Jackson Hole its beautiful, fun camping and hiking and its where we went on our first vacation when we were dating!

Here's some pictures of our house and area!

 heres the front of the house! we've since put in a fence and backyard! we think its super cute!

 this is along the Washington Idaho boarder and it shows our pretty sunsets and love of the view !

 carrie's pride and joy is her gallery wall, the rest of the house has a similar color feel. its my favorite thing to work on.

 had to add that we LOVE making homemade taco shells and tacos, its Trevors speciality

 this is on the view from one of carrie's runs that she likes to go on in the mornings. mountain views for days!

 Trevor loves to bike and this is on the Hiawatha trail. we love this area just because there is so much to do.

Every year we go get a fresh tree and love to decorate for Christmas together.

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Meet our families

between the 2 of us we have 10 siblings, 6 sets of grandparents (don’t ask me to do the math ha ha but we love them!) 3 nephews and 2 sets of the most amazing parents around!

Carrie’s family lives in Ammon Idaho (suburb of Idaho Falls), she has one brother who lives in town, a brother in Boise, a brother in Moscow Idaho, a brother in San Francisco and a brother in Phoenix! Wow all over the place. But some how we all love coming back together in SE Idaho especially during Christmas to go snowboarding at Kelly Canyon (our favorite local hill)

From left to right: Tristan, Ryan, dad, mom, Carrie, Trevor, Logan and Joe. Not shown Ian )he was deployed to Kuwait with the Army.

Trevor’s family lived in Bellevue Washington, when the kids were all grown up. Now that they are empty nesters they found a house 15 minutes away from ours! The live in Newman Lake! He has a sister who is married and has one little boy who live in Utah, another sister married with 2 little boys that live in Rexburg and the other three are triplets! And they also live in rexburg! His family loves to play games, quotes all the 90s tv shows and movies and loves to just hang out and talk!

From left to right Courtney, Logan, Lindsey (not shown her husband Jordan and two boys Emerson and Nixon), Carrie & Trevor l, mom and dad, Sierra, Brittney & Chad (cole)

                                                       Chad, Cole & Brittney

Lindsey, Emerson, Nixon & Jordan

Our family connections are the most important. We try our hardest to see everyone at least once a year if not more. Without our families we definitely would not be the people we are now! And how cool is it that we have all these people to love on our future babes! We are the luckiest.

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our adoption book

enjoy a little video of our adoption profile book!

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our fundraiser!

asking for help is the hardest, most vulnerable and scary thing that we will ever have to do. when we began this process we did not think that we would hold a fundraiser, we didnt want to be a burden on anyone. but once we announced our adoption everyone started to say how can i help?! we were instantly humbled!

the average adoption costs between $10-$30,000 dollars! that is overwhelming to think about. we are thankful that we are blessed to have amazing friends, family and a great community to live in that are willing to help us complete our family.

our fundraiser is a puzzle fundraiser! i got the idea from an adoption blog i was reading back in october 2016 when we decided to talk about adopting. we created a puzzle using 3 pictures that represent our families journey. the first picture is our adoption announcement, the second picture is our favorite picture from our wedding day and the third picture is us holding 3 balloons representing the 3 babies we lost in miscarriage.

everyone who donates will have their names put on the back of a puzzle piece. we are asking that each puzzle piece donation be $25 or however much you would like to donate. you can donate by going to our adopting baby fuhriman youcaring account.  sharing this post or our facebook posts is another great way of helping.

we are unable to express all the gratitude for you sharing in our journey and helping us acheive our number one dream of becoming parents! we love each and every single one of you!

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our adoption announcement

We are excited to officially announce some BIG news! We have begun the process for adopting the newest member of our family! The process is long and we have no idea how long it can take. 
As many know we have struggled to add to our little family and after 4 years of taking fertility treatment/miscarriages (3) we decided to not pursue fertility treatment anymore. After our last miscarriage in September we knew we could not go through another treatment and our hearts were instantly open to adopting.(yay! no more hormones for me!) Adoption has been a huge part of my family. My mom was adopted as a baby, she put a baby up for adoption, my step dad adopted my brother and i (also my mom adopted his 4 boys) so starting the adoption process was a no brainer!

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