About My Family
Here are all the details about my family. My favorite, by far, is Big Daddy.
Big Daddy
- My favorite human on the planet
- He has a butt to die for 🙂
- His eyes are the bluest of blues
- He measures his goatee
- Diehard Cubs fan
- Has a fondness for food
- Didn’t learn to shoot a gun until his 40s when he changed careers
- Beautiful singing voice
- He may look mean but he is a softy
- Has made me a homemade pizza every week (with few exceptions) our 25 yrs together
- Now, *he* has swag
- Was a Long Snapper for Murray State University…paid for his education
- He rarely says no to me
- He does not dust….ever.
- Loves to travel
- Took him 20 yrs to find the job of his dreams
- He has never dated anyone but me
- Detests pickled beets
- Has a deep passion for Jesus
- He has a giant heart
- He can do anything he sets his heart and mind too
- He has my heart and then some
Victoria & Ben
- My firstborn
- Graduated a year early with her Criminal Justice degree
- Cannot burp
- Laughs at her own jokes
- Never stops talking
- Talks faster than the speed of light
- Looks like her mama
- Acts like her daddy
- LOVES Jesus
- Fluent in sign language
- Graduated from high school (homeschool) and *almost* enough credits to get her Associates Degree
- Brilliant
- Cannot work a rubik’s cube
- Pack. Rat.
- Dances like no one is watching
- Music lover
- Wise beyond her years.
- Loved beyond reason
Ben
- He is an odd bird
- Eats soup with a fork (I kid you not)
- Smells everything
- Owns *way* too many pairs of shoes
- Obsessed with all things guns/knives
- Says “rolls bales” of hay instead of “round bales”
- Does not care for movies
- Will not eat green things
- Not a veggie lover
- Slightly fascinated with Saurkraut and Weinies
- Skeptic
- Mumbles when he talks to his parents
- Morning person but turns into an angry elf about 11
- Honest
- Prefers cats
- Likes to control everything in life
- Loves my daughter well
Alyssa
- My Secondborn
- Does not like odd numbers
- Looks like her daddy
- Acts like her mama
- Marches to the beat of her own drum
- Passionate about animals
- Loves Psychology
- Avid Music Listener
- Sneaky
- Bold
- Loves with her whole heart
- Does not like to cry
- Swimming is her sport
- Jesus changed her from the inside out
- Speaks her mind
- Lacks tack (much like her mother)
- Drives a bit like a grandma
- Loves to bake
Grayce
- Our first adopted child
- Aspires to sing, act, do hair and nails
- Can braid like a beast
- Avid reader
- Likes to write songs
- S.T.U.B.B.O.R.N.
- The shortest one of the family standing at a whopping 5’1″ (only when she wears thick soled shoes)
- A bit of a challenge
- Loves little kids
- Always anxious to go to church
- Meets no strangers
- Infectious smile
- Can clean a bathroom like a beast
- Enjoys cleaning floors with toothbrushes (go figure)
- Stinks at math (she gets that from me)
- Likes to color
- Loves black coffee
- Had her ears pierced with an ice cube and a needle at the ripe old age of 5 (seriously)
Noah
- My last biological child
- My first son
- He melts my heart
- Loves legos
- Enjoys jokes…even if they are only funny to him
- Excellent catcher in baseball
- Snake wrangler
- Has a deep love for The Temptations
- Learning to be a warrior for God
- Is an overcomer
- This boy can eat and then eat some more
- He has a kind heart
- Loves history
- He is the cat whisperer
- Only child with braces
- Still loves to snuggle
- Loves his 3 whiskers on his chin
Daniel
- My Second Adopted child
- Has a soft spot for the elderly
- He loves mohawks
- Only child with dyslexia
- Warrior for Fetal Alcohol Syndrome Disorder
- Can dump a box of legos and create ships and guns with moving parts
- Imaginative
- Loves. Loves. Loves history and science
- This pose sums this child up….even a rock becomes and adventure
- He is super sensitive
- He has short term memory loss
- Aspires to be in the military, a police man or a firefighter
- Was baptized with his younger brother, Jude
- He had a carat earring, in one ear, when he moved in with us.
- Did not talk till he was 4
- Has the ability to bring anyone joy
- He is also an eater….like of everything including wallpaper, pool noodles, rocks and legos
Jude
- Our third adopted child
- Our only child from Ethiopia
- Has a total of 11 siblings in America and in Ethiopia
- Was originally named after his biological father and his paternal grandfather
- Noah gave him the first name of Israel
- He. Is. An. Eater.
- Amazingly good at all sports
- He loves to read
- He has the greatest smile ever
- He could be a chef in the making because he loves to watch me cook
- He is diligent about his chores
- He taught Daniel how to tie his shoes
- He was the only child who was trilingual (Wolayitan, Amharic, and English)
- Does not know a stranger
- Loves the color orange
- He says he has “black man’s swag”….I simply agree
- Only child who has single sided deafness…we didn’t know for the first year
Hunter
- My fourth adopted son
- The youngest biological son of my niece
- He has Ataxia Telangictasia Like Disorder.
- He loves super heroes
- He thinks he is older than what he is.
- He has total of 8 siblings
- Loves to play with playdoh
- He loves to swim but hates to take a bath
- Has a fondness for his Mamaw
- Knows he is cute and uses that to his advantage
- He wants to be a sidewalk when he grows up (no typo)
- Has a deep love for sweet potato casserole
- He believes he is the 5th Ninja Turtle…now he is the blue Power Ranger.
- Likes to put pencils and other objects behind his ear
- Was terrified of stuffed animals for the first year he lived with us
- Still loves to be swaddled at nap and bedtime.
- He has been the easiest child I’ve ever had
