DH: [name_m]Nathaniel[/name_m] [name_u]Jace[/name_u]
DW: [name_f]Sofia[/name_f] [name_f]Rose[/name_f]
Year 1: [name_m]Nate[/name_m] & I decide to try for children and I become pregnant with twin boys! We name them [name_m]Wesley[/name_m] [name_u]James[/name_u] & [name_m]Samuel[/name_m] [name_m]Edward[/name_m].
Year 2: My mother, [name_f]Karina[/name_f], wants to spend some time with her new grandchildren, so she stays with us for 5 months.
Year 3: We try to conceive, but no success. We take a fertility test and everything comes back okay.
Year 4: We decide to look to adoption, and we adopt a 2 year old boy from [name_f]China[/name_f]. We name him [name_m]Bennett[/name_m] [name_u]Owen[/name_u].
Year 5: We adopt a cat from the shelter of a mixed breed and we name her [name_u]Scout[/name_u].
Year 6: [name_m]Nate[/name_m] & I conceive yet another baby boy! We name him [name_m]Declan[/name_m] [name_m]Oliver[/name_m].
Year 7: [name_m]Nate[/name_m], who works as a chef, decides to open his own restaurant named Big [name_m]Nate[/name_m]'s.
Year 8: We buy a new, 7 bedroom home just outside of Nashville.
Year 9: I unexpectedly fall pregnant with a baby girl! We name her [name_f]Faith[/name_f] [name_f]Elizabeth[/name_f].
Year 10: [name_f]Faith[/name_f] is born with a severe lazy eye and she requires surgery to have it corrected.
Year 11: I fall unexpectedly pregnant with triplets! Two boys and a girl. We name the [name_m]Joel[/name_m] [name_m]Alexander[/name_m], [name_m]William[/name_m] [name_m]Scott[/name_m], & [name_f]Clara[/name_f] [name_f]Rose[/name_f].
Year 12: We go on a big family trip to [name_f]Florida[/name_f] for a week.
Year 13: [name_m]Nate[/name_m] & I go on a mission trip to South [name_f]Africa[/name_f] and fall in love with 2 little orphaned siblings and decide to adopt them. They are a 1 year old boy and a newborn girl. We name them [name_m]Theodore[/name_m] [name_m]John[/name_m] & [name_f]Zoe[/name_f] [name_f]Madeleine[/name_f].
Year 14: [name_m]Nate[/name_m]'s sister [name_u]Allie[/name_u] gets married and our daughters, [name_f]Clara[/name_f], [name_f]Faith[/name_f], & [name_f]Zoe[/name_f] get to be flower girls.
Year 15: [name_m]Nate[/name_m] & I go to our high school reunion and tell everyone about our large family and our mission trip.
Year 16: We take guardianship over our neighbor’s children because our neighbors have been abusing them. They are 7 year old [name_m]Gabriel[/name_m] [name_u]James[/name_u] & 4 year old [name_f]Kylie[/name_f] [name_f]Ann[/name_f].
Year 17: We adopt another mixed breed cat and name him [name_m]Felix[/name_m].
Year 18: We meet a priest named Father [name_u]James[/name_u] and he asks us to take in these newborn twins that he found on his doorstep and we are more than happy to oblige. We name them [name_u]Harper[/name_u] [name_u]Eloise[/name_u] & [name_u]Elias[/name_u] [name_m]David[/name_m].
Year 19: We (yet again) buy a new home in Nashville to fit our family even better. It has 10 bedrooms.
Year 20: We have one last child - a baby girl we name [name_f]Cadence[/name_f] [name_f]Aurora[/name_f].
So [name_m]Nate[/name_m] & I have:
[name_m]Wesley[/name_m] & [name_u]Sam[/name_u] (20)
[name_m]Ben[/name_m] (19)
[name_m]Declan[/name_m] (15)
[name_f]Faith[/name_f] (12)
[name_m]Gabe[/name_m] (12)
[name_u]Joey[/name_u], [name_m]Liam[/name_m], & [name_f]Clara[/name_f] (10)
[name_u]Theo[/name_u] (9)
[name_f]Kylie[/name_f] (9)
[name_f]Zoe[/name_f] (8)
[name_u]Harper[/name_u] & [name_m]Eli[/name_m] (3)
[name_f]Cady[/name_f] (1)