Ladybugs and Dump Trucks: Family Time March 2009

First, I will start off with a really cool story that I have not shared here on my blog yet. David and Amy had a brother they knew about but had not ever met. They both talked about how cool it would be to meet him one day and we all prayed that one day it would happen.

Going to August of 2007 while David was working in Chicago for his company, his dad calls him one day and says hey I just got off the phone with your brother's wife. David says, yeah ok not really understanding what he was saying. And his dad says, "you know your brother Joel, I just got off the phone with his wife." David said he was at the mall and had to sit down on one of the benches close by to take it all in. So he and his dad are talking about his talk with Julie (Joel's wife) and then he says do you know where this city in IL is. David is like yeah it's about 5 min from where I am staying. His dad told him that is where Joel and his wife live.

So for the last 8 months that he was working in Chicago, he was only 5 miles from his brother. We totally believe that God had a hand in David working there at that particular time. So David got Joel's information and called to go have dinner and meet him. He did just about a week later and it was like they were never apart from each other. They hit it off very well from the beginning. I was so excited for him because this is something we had talked about before and I knew he was happy to get to finally meet his brother.

On labor day weekend 2007 David, Joel, and Julie all flew to Dallas, while Collin and Bucki (David's parents) drove from Tennessee to Dallas to meet Joel. We all had an awesome weekend of getting together and meeting!

At the end of March of this year 2009 we all got back together for some family time and pictures. This time Joel and Julie brought their gorgeous daughter Keira who was 8 months old. Here are some professional pics we had taken by the awesome Angel. Thank you Angel for capturing such wonderful photos of our new family! These pictures will be greatly and forever treasured!

These are all out of order.

This is Grandma and Grandpa with all the gran girls!!! At this point Avree was DONE taking pictures!