#joellebaker

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,

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 recently had a sitdown with one of our daughters, Jadyn. She has been a bit rebelious from time to time and we figured there was something on her mind where she wanted our counseling. The truth was devastating. She is pregnant! She is not married, the father wanted to marry her at first but now he doesn't anymore. I didn't know what to do. Bobby took the lead, my sweetest husband who always knows what to do. He arrenged that she could stay at home but kept out of the eye of those around us. We wouldn't want anyone to know one of our daughters got pregnant out of wedlock. Jadyn was very rebelious about it all. She didn't want to be 'locked up' as she called it. It's still stressing me out a lot and that while I'm pregnant too. We are due around the same time. I told Bobby that we could say to people we are expecting twins. Bobby thought that was the best thing to do.

In the meantime, I stumbled on such a beautiful moment of two of my other daughters, Joelle and Julie. Joelle was teaching Julie some new words. So sweet and it filled my heart with joy. In tought times like those now with our daughter Jadyn moments like these are so important to me.

Dear diary,

My sisters came by today. Their husbands took care of the children, just like Denver took care of mine so we had a girls day out at my place. Haha, so I wasn't out ;).

I took them to the porch with view on the lake and the vulcano. They loved it and thought it was so peaceful. I can imagen that with having mutiple little childeren at home just like me.

Joelle has four childeren, Sam 4, Rebecca 3, Lydia 2 and Hannah 0. Julie has one child, Gloria 0. Both Hannah and Gloria are the same age as my twin girls, Elianna and Fiona. They both are expecting again, their girls will be one year and a couple of months old when their baby's arrive. I'm just amazed with their pace of conciving childeren. They will both have about the same family size as my parents with 14 if they will continue like this. Julie has it a bit easy for now with just one child. But Joelle already has four. She will have 5 under 6! While I have 5 under 9. Such a big difference.

When I see Joelle struggeling with so many little childeren I'm glad Denver decided that we would prevent for a while after the birth of each of our childeren. Now that we have twins I'm really thankful for that. I couldn't imagen being pregnant right now while taking care of my twins.

I can't tell Joelle and Julie that we are preventing. I once told Joelle that and she reacted so bad. I can't bring up the courage to tell them how I'm enjoying the time between the childeren. I don't feel bad for myself not being pregnant with them again. We will take our time after the twins. Enjoying our current five childeren.

Dear diary,

We had a relatively normal day. So thankful for those. I was buzy with Beau and Abby while Denver was practicing for his presentation. His is going good for his study. He will be graduating soon!

But then my sister, Joelle, came by. She got married a couple of months ago. I miss her even more now that she is married too. But she had great news. She is expecting! I'm thrilled for her. She will be such a great mother. She was already asking for my advice and story's. Ofcourse my mother has the biggest experience of us all.

This baby will already be the 16th grandchild of our parents. Unbelieveble that they have more grandchilderen then childeren. (AN: this is only the beginning, prepare yourself) And only five of us are married. Ofcourse my sister Jadyn has a child out of wedlock and my parents never she her and her daughter. The other 14, soon 15, grandchilderen see her all the time. She pays them visits by turn. We all love that.

Dear diary,

We celebrated new years eve. We don't have big party's but we like to think about the things that have happend this year and what we hope for the new year. I for sure have something special to look forward to. I'm expecting again, my 10th baby. So special to finaly have a quiver in the double digits.

We also celebrated both Joelle's and Jadyn's birthday.

Joelle is a little bookwurm but she is also getting very creative. She is so wise for her age. Jadyn is a bit of a rebelion. She is always looking for some crack to not obey to the rules we have in place. But we keep her in line. (AN: no, they don't)

Love, Evy