Recently, we have been able to reap the benefits of the wealth of having, or coming from really large families and things that our parents did decades ago to give us gifts that we get to enjoy today.

However, we have had some fears when it comes to growing our own family size as to how will we be there for all these children? What's the Lord going to do

with the gaps that we find ourselves inevitably having when it comes to each one of them?

And so we want to encourage you when it comes to building your family and just some of the

things that the Lord has shown us is sometimes we wonder what's this going to look like

of decades down the road for our kids and we're able to reap some of those benefits now.

So we want to share what that's looked like for us and coming from families of 10 and 11 kids.

And what we're currently experiencing as a result of our parents walking by

faith. It's given us a lot more faith moving forward in our own family. And we hope that it

encourages you and yours as well. Yeah, I couldn't agree more, Katie, that the last, I'd say in

particular the last few weeks, right? I think each year you and I have enjoyed the benefits of being

from large families as we've become adults, we're raising our own children and we're doing it

side by side with our siblings and our in-laws that, you know, are facing the same challenges,

the same problems, and we're able to use each other as resources and as an encouragement.

Yeah, in particular over the last couple of weeks, I mean,

we've already shared, we hosted your entire family here at our home for Easter weekend. And then

just this past weekend, we were able to host three of my married siblings and their children at

our home. Two of those families stayed the night here, which was really fun with their, I guess, my sister

has 11 children. Yeah, my sister has six children. My other sister and her husband have

five children. Yeah, so it was 11 children total that we had staying here along with my

two brother-in-laws and my sisters. And it was a real treat to be able to do, you know,

do have those conversations that

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