Thursday, February 25, 2010

Waiting for #14

Joe and I are Uncle Joe and Aunt Re to 13 amazing kids!!! Our oldest niece will be 18 on Saturday so you could say we have been enjoying them for quite a while now. Each one has unique personality traits that we have grown to love - and we truly enjoy spending time with all of them. I am sure at times we seem over bearing and nutty...but we love being such a big part of their lives. If we know one of them is involved in an event, we do our best to be there to support them. As a matter of fact, our oldest niece is graduating from High School this year and initially we thought her graduation and Danielle's dance recital would be on the same day...I actually e-mailed the dance teacher to see if there was anything she could do!!! She knows me pretty well so she didn't try to have me committed....turns out the graduation will be the day after the recital....but trust me when I say to you I was so going to have a breakdown over this one.

We are anxiously awaiting our 14th niece/nephew....if all goes as planned sometime in the next 15 days or so we will be adding Bella May Rose to our list of amazing nieces/nephews. It has been a long time since we have had a baby girl on either side of the family...the youngest girls are 10 now...so this is going to be a big deal for us. Her wardrobe is already bigger than mine thanks to all of the friends and family who are showering her and Colleen with love!!!

Stayed tuned for updates and announcements on her arrival...and of course updates on all of the awesome kids who call us Uncle Joe and Aunt Re.


Christina (18)
Kayla (16)
Brianna (10)

Taylor (15)
Blake (12)

Devin (14)
Isaiah (13)
Mackenzie (10)
Noah (4)
Logan (3)

Taylor (15)
Amber (11)
Alex (4)
***Coming Soon*** Bella

2 comments:

Jim, Heather, Jordan and Madison said...

You are an amazing Aunt, mom, wife, and hostess! Thank you again for making feel us feel so welcome at the family shower....we never felt like the outsiders we were ;) I don't know how you keep 14 of them straight, but you seem to do it with ease!
xoxox

Colleen Gebhardt said...

I'm waiting too girl...good Lord.