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Jason and I met and started dating when I was 16. We were working fast food at the local mall. I worked the register and he flipped the burgers. I still remember vividly how he would tease me about my dual colored eyeshadow and my stirrup pants (remember those? Mine were too short so I would flip the straps up over my heal).

We had been dating for a year when Jason surprised me at school during class… he got down on one knee in front of all of my friends! We tied the knot the summer of 1988.

Three years later we had our first baby, Emilee Camille. Emilee graced our lives for 5 short days and made a permanent impression on our hearts and lives.

The next year Kaytlin was born, Jason graduated from college and got his first "real" job while I was finishing up my coursework. A couple of years later brought a huge move where we eventually grounded our family, career(s) and lives. I graduated college the next year and taught 3rd grade for a year.

At the end of the school year we made the big decision that the family needed "the momma" at home more than the children at school needed me for a teacher. Soon after, we celebrated the arrival of Joshua.

Fast forward ten years… I decided that since the kids were in school during the day I could get a "school hours" job. I was hired as a Parent Educator with the Parents as Teachers program. Making home visits, getting to know the families and helping the parents guide their children and be their first teachers was fun and exciting.

Mid school year we found I was pregnant with Emma, who arrived late the next year. That was the end of my "career" in education and I was, again, back home with my family. Our final addition, and surprise to us, blessed our lives 21 months after Emma… and here we are 23 years later. Living and loving our lives with 4 children!

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Meet the family…

Kaytlin is our oldest child, 20. She is currently paying her way through college (debt free) and living (helping out) at home. I love her photography and you will see many of the photos she has taken on my blog. She is our second mommy for the two youngest and I don’t know how I would manage without her!

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Meet Joshua, 15. He is in 9th grade, plays the trumpet in the school band, is on the school soccer team and loves to run long distances with his dad. He is the clown of the family (as you can see above… seriously, it’s so hard to find a serious photo of him!) and is also a very loving and loyal person. I am proud of the young man he is becoming.

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Emmaline Grace (pronounced Emma LINE) is our 5 year old princess… the world revolves around her, or so she believes. She is serious, but yet funny, very vocal (she has a HUGE adult sized vocabulary!), smart and also very sweet, kind and loving. She has recently taken up singing songs she made up herself and pretending to "follow the yellow brick road" to visit the Wizard of Oz!

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Ethan is the final addition to our family… our (Momma’s) baby. He turned 3 in July and is changing quickly into such a big guy! Ethan loves cars, balls, balloons, shoes, boots, outside and food.

He is our gentle giant and often asks me for “lots of kisses” … a big love bug.