Family Blog

As you all know, Derick has been in the Cross Church School of Ministry residency program for the past year and just graduated this past week! While working in the missions department at our church, he was able to take seminary classes, travel on several short-term missions trips (domestic and international) and gain lots of […]

July is always a fun month with lots of summer activities and Independence Day celebrations. Samuel turned one and now has eight teeth (working on numbers nine and ten)…as you can see in his one year/12 month photos!  We also enjoyed a quick trip to Oklahoma to visit Derick’s extended family and Derick has helped

Around the time of each wedding, when the whole family comes together, we try to get a group family photo. Before Josiah and Lauren’s wedding, we did the same thing, but some of the girls had the idea to also take a Duggar grandkid/grandparents photo since there are so many now! It turned out to

We celebrated Samuel’s first birthday earlier this month with smash cake and all! We had Jill’s buddy team and Derick’s family over for the evening. Here are some pictures and videos.

We had a great time recently helping with “Vacation Bible School Extreme” (VBX) at our church! The boys were in their preschool classes while we worked in the preschool missions room and had groups of kids rotate in and out during the day. Israel loved helping Derick decorate the door to the classroom, hanging out

Someone recently asked what homeschool curriculum we have started using with Israel, so we wanted to share a little video to explain! Israel just turned three in April, but he loves doing school so we have had fun letting him begin some preschool work.  

Samuel had been cruising the furniture for a couple months and finally took his first steps a few days before his first birthday! We captured his first steps in a couple videos.

Congratulations to the newlyweds on two weeks of marriage! Josiah and Lauren’s day was beautiful! We are so happy for them and Israel and Samuel are happy to have a new Aunt in the family!