#juannabaker

We are sad to announce the death of our dear mother, grandmother, greatgrandmother and greatgreatgrandmother

Juanna Faith Crowley (nee Baker)

Abby&Samuel, Isa, Karen, Samuel, Victoria, Adeline, Albert, Cecelia, Eleonor, Leonard, and their partners, childeren and grandchilderen

Beau&Isabel, Maggie, Wayne, Susie, Clint, Finnley, Addie, Holly, Macie, Oliver, and their partners, childeren and grandchilderen

Christina&Aaron, Abel, Tina, Amos, Brenda, Josiah, Sandra, Micah, Isaiah, Patricia, Noah, and their partners and childeren

Elianna&Marco, Charlotte, Lucy, Evangeline, Roger, William, Aimee, Susanna, Charles, Matthew, George, Florence, Benjamin, Ann, Stephen, Clara, Olimpia, Harriet, Phillip, Lilias, and their partners and childeren

Fiona&Frederick, Nathan, David, Rebecca, Esther, Josiah, Johanna, Vivian, and their partners and childeren

Gabriel&Tamara, Elijah, Ethan, Emily, Ezra, Edward, Evan, Eleonor, Elliot, Eloise, Ebenezer, Eden, Esther, Eileen, Elin, Edmund, and their partners and childeren

Hosanna&Ronald, Ellen, James, and her partner

Dear diary,

My grandparents of my mothers side of the family are 55 years married. That's so long. I would love to be married to Samson for that long but we are still only a year and a half married. We have been blessed with two little ones in those years, so thankful.

My grandparents have 7 childeren.

My aunt Abby has 9 childeren and 17 grandchilderen.

My uncle Beau has 9 childeren too. But he has 'only' 13 grandchilderen.

My aunt Christine has 10 childeren and 6 grandchilderen.

My mother has 19 childeren and 15 grandchilderen. Two are mine :).

My aunt Fiona has 7 childeren and doesn't have grandchilderen yet.

My uncle Gabriel has 13 childeren and doesn't have grandchilderen either.

My youngest aunt, Hosanna, has 2 childeren and doesn't have grandchilderen yet.

That means my grandparents have 69 grandchilderen and 51 greatgrandchilderen. That's so much! We are always with so many people at family gatherings and there is always missing someone. Their marriage has been such a blessing and example to all of us.

Dear diary,

my parents have been married for 45 years! And still, when they look at eachother you see so much love. They have been blessed incredible for all those years. And they have both been such a blessing to so many of us.

My mother recently turned 65 years old, my father is already 71 years old. We love every visit of them and we get plenty of them. They love to see their many grandchilderen.

I have 6 siblings. Abby is my oldest sister. She is married to Sam and together they have 9 childeren, Isa, Karen, Samuel, Victoria, Adeline, Albert, Cecelia, Eleonor and Leonard. Isa, Karen and Victoria are already married. Isa has two childeren and is expecting another. Karen has one child and Victoria is a newlywed.

Beau is my eldest brother. He is married to Isabel and they have 9 childeren too, Maggie, Wayne, Susie, Clint, Finnley, Addie, Holly, Macie and Oliver. Maggie is already married but doesn't have childeren yet.

Then there is my sister Christina. She is married to Aaron and they have 9 childeren also, Abel, Tina, Amos, Brenda, Josiah, Sandra, Micah, Isaiah and Patricia. They are all under 18 so no one is married yet.

Then there is me. Me and Marco have 16 childeren, Charlotte, Lucy, Evangeline, Roger, William, Aimee, Susanna, Charles, Matthew, George, Florence, Benjamin, Ann, Stephen, Clara and Olimpia. They are all under 18. And we have a little surprise, we are expecting #17! We feel so blessed to add another little one to our growing family. (AN: the ages are the spreadsheat ages. Because I age them up faster a lot of them are married in game)

Fifth is my twinsister Fiona. She is married to Fredrick. They have 4 childeren, Nathan, David, Rebecca and Esther. Their childeren are all under 6.

My second brother is Gabriel. He is married to Tamara and together they have 7 childeren, Elijah, Ethan, Emily, Ezra, Edward, Evan and Eleonor. They are all under 10. Tamara is expecting too, around the same time as me. So special!

And then there is my little sister Hosanna. She is married to Ronald and they have two childeren, Ellen and James. They are both young too.

Dear diary,

The day of my dreams finaly came. It was wonderful. I can't tell how special it felt, how much it meant to me to have this day. And I had the two most important people at my side, ofcourse Fredrick but also my dear twinsister Elianna. She is my rock, always there for me, always listening and offering advice.

My parents where proud and sad at the same time. Proud to see me finaly have my dream come true but also sad because in just a few months the have gone from having two daughters still at home to having no childeren at home anymore. I'm sure I'll see plenty of them in the future when they come over or I will go to them.

Since I dreamed for a long time about my weddingday and I saw a lot of other people getting married, I already figured out what I wanted for a dress. And it turned out so georgous! I felt like a princess.

Most of the ceremony went one in ear and the other one out. I was looking at the wonderful man standing for me. And the ceremony was over before I knew it. The first kiss was a bit awkward in front of so many people. But when we started making photo's it was almost like it was just the two of us. Fredrick is the sweetest and best kisser ever.

Dear diary,

I'm engaged! I still can't believe Marco actually proposed to me and wants to marry me. He is the sweetest and he made such a effort to make the proposal special. Ofcourse he asked my dad before he proposed. He invited both my mom and Fiona with us on a date to chaperonne. We went to a restaurant and had a wonderful meal. Then he took me to a waterfall and there he went down on one knee and asked me to marry him. I was so surprised I didn't say yes right away. He had to wait a little bit. He was so happy when I finally said 'yes'.

Since the engagement we have been weddingplanning and I went over several times to Marco's house. It has to be ready for me to move in, in just a couple of months.

Dear diary,

My two daughters, Elianna and Fiona, share a bedroom. They are twins and share everything on their request. Recently they started having nightmares and started thinking their was a monster under their bed. We used the monsterspray, Abby remembered when she was scared years ago and also used it one night for the girls. Abby is such a sweet older sister.

My youngest celebrated his birthday. He is already four years old! I can't believe I won't be having childeren at home anymore. They grow up so fast! Gabriel is such a selfassured young boy. He always knows what he wants.

Since we had two birthday's short after eachother, and it had been a while, we made a new familyphoto.

We made two different ones. We had a hard time getting our teenagers, Abby and Beau in a good position. But we managed to get some cute photo's. I'm so thankful with my family. But deep down, I still have some babyfever left. I hope we get one more some day.

Love, Juanna

Dear diary,

My baby is already one year old. Denver and I might not try for another baby so I'm just sooking in all the moments with my youngest.

He is already such a handsome young boy. And he knows what he wants. I need to learn him that he doesn't trow a fit whenever he doesn't get his way. His father has such a soft spot for his youngest son. He spends a lot of time playing with Gabriel. So sweet to see them together.

With all those birthday's, we wanted a new familyphoto.

We have such a cutie little family. The childeren in order are: Abby, Beau, Christina, Elianna, Fiona and Gabriel. They are 11, 9, 7, 4 and 1 years old. We are so thankful and feel so blessed.

Love, Juanna

Dear diary,

My eldest is already so big and old. She is really getting good at cooking. She is almost 16 years old right now. I never ask her to take on a chore like cooking but she does so herself. Ofcourse I do it the maintime but she likes to do it sometimes too. Like this morning. My sweet daughter.

Fiona had a friend over. She is also a niece of us, Hannah Sestari. She is the daughter of my sister Joelle. Joelle, Julie and I where all pregnant at the same time. I got twin girls, and Joelle and Julie both had girls too. It's so nice to see them growing up together.

Sometimes I do feel a bit sad for Hannah and Gloria (Julie's daughter). They have so many little siblings while my twins only have one. My twins can play all day while Hannah and Gloria help out their mothers. Hannah has five, soon six, younger siblings while Gloria has six, soon seven, younger siblings. And Gloria is the oldest while Hannah has two older siblings. So I feel sad the most for Gloria.

Abby is really getting into that teenage fase. She is working on staying active and slim and making sure she has a nice teint. I let her do so. As long as she behaves herself Denver and I are okay with it.

Elianna and I had a moment together playing the violin. All my childeren are great at playing instruments and I just love playing together with them.