Meet the Family

For those new to the blog....Merry Christmas from our family to your's!

As we celebrate Christmas far away from home and all of our family I thought it'd be appropriate to do a tribute post to all of the very loved family we left behind. I'm always curious about families of other people we meet and love to find out more about number of brothers and sisters, mom and dad and so forth. So, in honor of our families here's a post about them.


My Family. I grew up in the middle with one older sister, 5 years older, and one younger brother, 19 months younger. We were raised extremely conservatively in a non denominational church and homeschooled using ATI, the same curriculum the Duggar's use. My mom and dad divorced after 30 years of marriage sometime around '93.

My dad, Brad and I celebrating birthday dinner before we moved. Sept '11, 14 weeks pregnant with this growing baby. My dad lives in the DFW area of Texas. He's wonderful at documenting life in pictures so has a recent pic of each one of his kids with him. For Christmas last year he compiled for each one of us our life in pictures dating from the date of my parent's marriage to current. One of these days I'll put many childhood pictures on here since I now have the ability. We stay in touch regularly.

My mom, celebrating Thanksgiving with us this year. She currently lives in west Texas. We talk on the phone daily and she is one of the most missed aspects of home.

My older sister, by 5 years, with her family. They have 10 children ranging in age from 18-1 and live in the DFW area of Texas. A beautiful family that we deeply love and miss.

Jackie and Curtis

Madison, Curtis Wade, Maggie, Christian, Milly,

Mercy, Charles, Channing, Cyrus and Miriam

My sister, Jackie, with her husband, Curtis, and oldest 3 children.

Jackie with my dad.

My younger brother, Scott, by 19 months. He's unmarried and living in LA. Love this boy. We remain close and talk regularly.

Scott and my dad.

Brad's Family. He's the oldest in a family of 3, with a younger sister by 5 years and a younger brother by 7 years.

His mom and dad live in the Midland, Texas area and are still married. They're active members of their church and both play on the praise and worship team. They are deeply in love with our children and enjoy them on a frequent basis. I couldn't find any recent pics of them and didn't have the time nor patience to go looking. This was taken Thanksgiving of '07...despite what the date stamp may say. Gotta love the nose pickers in pics.

Brad's younger sister with her family. They have 2 children ages 4 and 1 and live in the Lubbock area of Texas. Abby's a photgrapher and very good at what she does!

Abby and Chris

Milo and Asher

Milo

Asher

Brad's younger brother, Ben. He passed away in Aug '03 at the age of 22. Still very loved and missed.

Feeling deeply blessed this season for the family we have in our lives and that continue to play such an active part in our children's. It is not a small thing to have so many that surround us in life with such love and encouragement and love our children so desperately. Missing the family and friends we left behind this Christmas.