Brothers

Well, I had a request for a post about brothers and I had been thinking about doing it since I did my "sisters" one so here it is!

I have 6 brothers ranging from 24 to almost 7 and I really enjoy having them around. My older brothers hang out with me at movies or whatever is new, just enjoying time together and I get to work with my younger brothers teaching them how to be gentlemen and I love to do find things that they love to do and do it with them (Dayton loves to try to play Ping Pong and thinks he is great at it!).

Jeremy is my oldest brother and is 24 years old and is 5 ft 11 in, he just got out of the Marines after a 5 year commitment. He is currently living at home with us and is looking for a job but he might go back to school in the spring. He loves to play volleyball, computer games, card games (especially Canasta), go to movies and do just about anything having to do with computers.

This was some time near 2006:

about a year ago, he took this for his Facebook photo:Jason is 22 years old and 6 ft 1 in, he is still living at home but works full time (and a lot over time) where my dad works (Gray Mold in Bellingham). He loves to play games (computer, Xbox, and card/board games) and is very social. He plays Volleyball at least once a week, is on two bowling leagues, coaches a Bible Quizzing team and always seems to be going to this or that Xbox game party :). On Wednesday at bowling he got a 275 (or something close to that) and his all time record is 285 I believe. He is a great big brother and goes to movies with me all the time, inviting me even when he is going with some of his friends. Esther likes him a lot, she almost always waves at him when he comes home.

Jonathan is 17 years old and 6 ft 0 in tall. He is now working full time at Perry Pallets in Custer and is very responsible about getting a decent amount of sleep (a certain other brother who does a million things doesn't care what time he goes to bed!) which I am proud of him for. He loves to play Volleyball (actually everyone in our family does, the first words out of my dad's mouth after Rachel's birth (we then had 3 boys and 2 girls) were "A co-ed volleyball team!"), ride bike, play Ping Pong, and now that he has a job he loves to come to movies too. He wants to one day drive Semis for a job and maybe get a motorcycle someday.
Reuben is 11 years old and started doing Bible Quizzing for the first time this year! He has an amazing mind and is doing really well in that. He is really good at math (the opposite of me!) and is our sweet, deep thinker. He will hopefully be getting braces within a year.

Rachel had bought a ball that got popped and this is what happened to it:
(Reuben left, Daniel right)

I planted potatoes this year and everyone helped dig them up:
(Daniel left, Reuben right)

Daniel is 9 years old and is our avid reader, reading and spelling words that even Rebekah sometimes has trouble with! He, Reuben, and Dayton are almost always together (mom started calling them "the Three Little Pigs when they were really little and we still do every now and then!) playing with something, making something or just goofing off.In the pictures below, Daniel is on the left and Dayton is on the right, their hair had gotten a little long so while they were getting their hair cut (we do it at home) we stopped when they had mohawks to take a picture then finished the hair cut. Dayton thought it was fun and that it was awsome!

Dayton is soon to be 7 (in December) and is finally getting is two front teeth! He had had those pulled a couple of years ago (I think) and had to have the gums cut and burned to let the teeth come through because the gums had gotten too hard for the teeth to come through. He is a gentleman (like in the picture below with Elizabeth) most of the time but is now really having to learn to control is temper (like the rest of us). To all the rest of us it still seems like he is 5 but we are now having to get used to the idea of the number 7!Here are some partial family pictures:

this was taken a few months ago at a Homeschool Heritage Picnic:
(Daniel had a compression fracture in his wrist)
I saw the next one and had to put it here, it is sooooo cute!
It was probably taken in 2006 or 2007:

Back row left to right: Rebekah, Jonathan, Reuben, Rachel

Middle row left to right: Jason, me, Jeremy
bottom row left to right: Dayton, Daniel


We are by far, not a perfect family and I do not wish for it to seem that way. We are like everyone else, learning to live as God would have us live and working through our struggles and sins same as you, but I want to use this blog to bring glory to God. He is shaping us and molding us everyday, using each other and the things around us to make us who He wants us to be, and by His grace we are learning, little tiny step by little tiny step. For those of you reading this blog who are fellow Christians, please keep us in mind when praying. Pray for us to grow in Christ and in love for one another, everyone needs prayer and we are no different!

Thank you for reading my blog!