#evybaker

Dear diary,

I turned 44 years old about a half year ago. I have to admit to myself that having more childeren is not realistic. Besides, I'm happy with the 14 I've got. Altough, sometimes it still itches me, those babysmells and giggles. But I know it's over. I already have beautiful grandchilderen, #5 will arrive in a couple of months. I love them very much and spend as much time with them as I can. Those sweet childeren.

Since I admitted to myself that I won't be having childeren anymore, I started giving, and selling, the babystuff I still have to my childeren and members of the church. In return, I bought some stuff to fill the caps the babystuff had filled all those years.

I have a love seat for me and Bobby in our bedroom and Jenelle was thrilled to have a piano in her room. She had a tough time giving up her job, she needed some cheering up. She instantly started playing while I did some working out on the tredmill. (AN: She is really thin and still working out, we should be worried about her)

With all the sad stuff about selling my babystuff, I had another sad moment. My baby, Jessica, is already a teenager!

My youngest is already so grown up. I can't believe it! Time sure flies by.

Dear diary,

Over the past years we have had some struggles concerning our daughter, Jenelle. She was way more interested in her violin and teaching the violin to others then in man. Finaly, Bobby took matters in his own hands and searched for a husband for her. He came up with Jax Stone, a great christian musician. We visited him, we invited him over but Jenelle was still more interested in her violin. Finaly we got her talking with him. I'm very haping that they are now courting!

IJenelle was pleased with it until she discoved that you have to give up your job when you are in a relationship. She didn't like that at all. But she had to, she already said yes to Jax. Jenelle was in tears. She wanted to continue teaching the violin. There was nothing we could do. Jenelle had only one option, give up her job. She was devasted and is still crying a lot over her job.

Bobby was very tense about it all. He finaly found her a great husband, perfect for her, also in love with music. And then she acts at first not interesed at all and then she makes all that fuss about her job. It's not like a woman is meant to work. It took us a long time to make that clear to Jenelle. I'm sure she will love being a wife and mother and will never think about teaching violin again once she is married.

Love, Evy

Dear diary,

Baby Crowley is here! And it's a sweet little girl who we named Abby Faith Crowley. That means God is joyious and I don't think I have to explain Faith. Faith is also my middle name and therefor Denver thought it would be extra special to give her Faith as a middle name.

Abby is such a sweet baby, I love her very much. I just can't stop hugging her. Ofcourse my mother came over as soon as Abby was here and she brought Joelle with her. I was so happy to see them both and be able to show them Abby.

Dear diary,

I was only six months pregnant when I started to have contractions. Soon I knew something was wrong. Bobby and I left for the docter to check out our 14th baby. The docter was very worried and kept me in the hospital. Our baby was born the next morning. It's a girl and we named her Jessica Joy Baker. Her name means God beholds, He sees everything and there is nothing going on that he doesn't know about, even our little baby struggeling to stay alive.

Bobby is going back and forth between the hospital and our home. Lucky for us, Jenelle is able to take care after the childeren. We are so blessed with her. She cooks, cleans and even helps Jocelyne and Jonathan with their homework.

Dear diary,

We had a surprise! I'm pregnant again! I didn't expected to have another baby since I'm already forthy years old but it happend and we are thrilled. Baby #14 is on the way!

Ofcourse we wanted to tell all our childeren they where going to have another little brother or sister. We invited them all over for deserts and told them. (AN: ofcourse Jadyn and Jedidiah wheren't invited, because Jadyn left home without her parents knowing and Jedidiah had to leave because he has a relationship with a man)

They where all thrilled with another little brother or sister. They didn't expected me to become pregnant again but where all hoping it. My sweet childeren, I love them so much. I especially loved seeing Bobby with Joseph talking, father and eldest son, such a special relationship. Bobby had to wait a bit before he had a son. We first got two daughters.

Dear diary,

We are back from our honeymoon. It was wonderful! I loved spending special time with my hubby, Denver. We rented a little cottage in the woods. We played cards, grilled and all of that in the cold because it's still winter.

Ofcourse, at night, things got a bit more romantic. Denver is the sweetest. He decided that we aren't ready for a baby yet. That felt a bit wrong for me but ofcourse he knows what's best for us. We don't use hormonal birthcontrol but prevent pregnancy an other way. I always learned from my parents that you leave your familysize up to God but Denver has read the bible lot's of times as a pastor and I won't doupt his decision one second. I just don't know what to say to my parents or siblings when they ask me if I'm pregnant or not.

My parents celebrated their 25th wedding anniversary. They are so perfect for eachother and I love them very much.

Part 2

From left to right, up to down: Bobby, Evy, Jedidiah, Jenelle, Jackson, Julie, Jocelyne, Jonathan, Jessica.

I'm really bad at this but this is what I think:

Jedidiah has Evy's hair and faceshape

Jenelle has Evy's hair and Bobby's faceshape

Jackson has Evy's hair and faceshape

Julie has Bobby's hair and faceshape (and the only one with his skintone)

Jocelyne has Bobby's hair and Evy's faceshape

Jonathan has Bobby's hair and faceshape (the son that looks the most like Bobby)

Jessica has Bobby's hair and faceshape

Dear diary,

We finaly moved! So exciting! We are just moved in but I feels already like home and I love the space the new house has. But the most important thing is the second bathroom, one even has a bathtub.

From the top left to botum right: The kitchen with a new diningtable. The diningtable from the other side with in the back the livingroom. The girls and toddlerroom. The hallway upstairs (not pitured: Bobby's woodworkingtable). The masterbedroom with the crib. The boysroom (for now with just Joseph but James will soon join him).

The first birthday in the new house. Joseph was really excited. He is a teenager now but such a sweet one(AN: he is much like his nametwin from the duggars). And he was already fixing the sink when Bobby came home. I love an extra man in the house who fixes things.