Friday, October 22, 2010

saving the date

i'm definitely a pupil of the "bigger is better" school of thought.

specifically,
when it comes to my family,
i prefer huge!!


and so, nothing made me happier than a phone call from my big brother a few weeks back announcing that he finally asked his longtime girlfriend to marry him.

it's about time, joshua!

(i loved our niece lucy's response...
"i thought you were married!!")


i'm looking forward to all of the ways that our family
is going to grow and change in 2011...

aunt jenny and
big cousins ellie and macy,
new baby cousins, being born and coming home from korea, too.

no elbow room at the dinner table?!
no problem!!



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8 comments:

Norbyah said...

Congratulations to your wonderful, ever growing family! So happy for all of you. What a beautiful family Joshua has...

October 23, 2010 at 8:47 AM
Elizabeth Frick said...

Yahoo! So exciting :)

October 23, 2010 at 8:56 AM
Lora Maria said...

See! you like a HUGE family. like four kids i think. ;)
anyway, i heard this news already but congrats again.
and i LOVE this picture of them. Did I miss this session or did you not flickr it yet? I want to see them all! :)
love you

October 23, 2010 at 2:17 PM
Christy said...

Awesome! Congrats to your family!

October 23, 2010 at 2:28 PM
JoJo said...

Congrats to your family!! What a great pic. And I'm with you...the more family the better!!

October 24, 2010 at 3:12 PM
Christine @ 12,450miles said...

How exciting! Congrats to your brother and his soon-to-be-official family!

October 24, 2010 at 7:20 PM
Colleen said...

so many wonderful things to look forward to!! What would we do without our families? :)

October 24, 2010 at 9:11 PM
Kris said...

Congratulations to your brother and his family! So exciting!

October 25, 2010 at 5:17 PM

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