The Crew, Minus a Few

A little background on our crew: There are four families involved...we all met once upon a time at church here in town. A few of us went to high school together and the rest of us just sort of fell into place. We started having children and often more than one of us were pregnant at the same time. Our kids, all 12 of them, range in age from 2 to 12. They are together at church, on Sundays and Wednesdays, at all the birthday parties, Christmas parties, the pumpkin patch, socials, weekend vacations, you name it. They love each other and they fight like brothers and sisters. And when I see these pictures of them, I feel nearly ten years of emotions that are difficult to put into words so I leave it with just one: Friends.

So, every year, we, meaning my girls and I take our kids to the same pumpkin patch and shoot pics of our little tykes together...we shoot a few of just our own, we shoot some of all the kids, some of just the boys and on the years our husbands grace us with their presence, we rope them into a photo or two as well. This year, it was awesome fall weather and the patch looked a little different if a little sparse due to the poor economy but we got our pics anyway...we were just missing a few of the people we needed to make the pictures complete...so, this post goes out to my girl, Meagen and her beautiful children, Taylor, Kelly and Anthony! We missed you!




I love this picture of Grace and Ellie. Both of these girls were brought to their forever families with the help of America World Adoption Agency. Though they were born in vastly different countries more than a year apart, the miracle of adoption has brought them together and they are sisters of the heart.

The ladies: Jessi, Ellie, Grace and Ruthie.

The Gentlemen: Rusty, Brannon and Michael

The little Guys: Flip and Matthew

And, The CREW, minus a few