Supersize family fun

Sure the fun was supersize...but so was the family! When we were in Tulsa, we happened to be in town on the Saturday when The Duggars were doing a book signing at Barnes and Noble. Who are the Duggars? They are the family from TLC's and Discovery Health's 18 Kids and Counting. Yep, this family has 18 kiddos!...and all the kids' names start with J.

A few years ago I just happened upon a show called "14 kids and Pregnant Again" and I decided to watch it. I think large families are awesome, but not always portrayed well on TV. Well, I LOVED watching the show and so did the boys. Here was a family filled with sweet, well mannered, homeschool kids who did lots of things the boys did...Managers of Their Home schedules, homeschooling, shopping at Aldi, eating tater tot casserole,having "J" names, loving their brothers and sisters and mom and dad and having fun doing it. We were hooked! Since then, there have been more kids, more shows, even a wedding and we love watching it more and more. The values that are unapologetically portrayed are for family, modesty and purity, God-centered, debt-free living and all that kind of great stuff. In fact, "18 kids and Counting" is one of the few shows we consistently watch. So we were so thrilled to find that the Duggars were going to be in person and signing their new book. Jonathan and Jeremy were still travelling back from the tournament so they weren't able to be there, but Julie with her girls and Jeffrey and Josiah and I were able to make it to Barnes and Noble. There were lots of people there and we had to wait a while for our turn in line, but it was worth it! We all loved the chance to meet people we see on TV and loved having the chance to thank Jim Bob and Michelle (the mom and dad) for their consistent high standards that they portray and hold for their family. TLC was there taping for a show and the lady behind us in line was asked if she minded being filmed for the show, so we're all waiting for the episode to see if we can see our backs! :-)
Here's 9 of the kids listening to Jim Bob speak.

More kiddos. Jeffrey snaked his way to the front of the crowd to take some of these pictures. Good job, Jeffrey.

Michelle, answering questions from the crowd.

When we found out we were going to go to the booksigning Josiah said, "I would love to take my picture with Josiah Duggar!". Here are the two Josiahs.

Here are Josiah Duggar, me, Josiah, Jim Bob, Jeffrey, Michelle, Katie, Julie and Lauren.

It was a very special treat! BTW, their book is great, too!