{my family}

Not many girls get to say that they are from a family of 13 kids... But I do!! and I am proud of it :)

Photography credit goes to our friend Abigail

back row: Isaac, Dad holding Tobias(Toby), Mom, Zachary, Steven 

middle row: Amy holding Lydia, Aleksandra, Elsie, Me, Aliisa holding Abraham, Grace

bottom row: Caleb, Nathan, Anja, Elijah, Jacob, Jackson, Lily

I have 2 amazing parents, 7 brothers, 5 sisters, 1 brother in-law, 1 sister in-law, 3 nephews and 2 nieces!

Photography credit goes to our friend Abigail 

 My siblings 

I am so blessed for my four older siblings as examples of followers of Christ and eight younger ones that I get to help teach, learn from & watch grow :)

If you counted everyone in the picture above, you'll notice there's only 12 people, and that's because the pictures were taken the summer of 2014.. before our surprise baby....

Timmy!!! 

We were blessed with the opportunity to adopt Timothy into our family shortly after he was born in November of 2014. He was the precious gift from God we didn't know we needed! But what a joy he has already been in our family this past year!!

Timmy and Toby (the two youngest) are very special. They were both blessed with an extra chromosome!! :) in other words, they have down syndrome.

timmy♥

toby♥

Toby is 8 months older than Timmy :)

They are SUCH joys and blessings and I cannot wait to see them grow up together!!♥

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