“I am what I am because of who we all are.”
~Martin Luther King, Jr.
Gena, My mother!, Baby Michaela, Jenee, me, Chelli
My sisters and our families were all together this past week.
We filled the time partying, eating, baby dedicating, football watching, church-going, and eating some more.
Chelli and her husband Darren were highschool sweethearts and when they come home and the Palmers and the Roys get together, it’s a bona fide good time.
Our family boasts about every shade of human color on the spectrum – we’ve got Black, White, German, Polish, Panamanian, Scottish, Puerto Rican (hey Joel!), and Lord knows what else, up in the mix.
I look at all our children, and I am amazed by the creative handiwork of God. How we look so alike and so different. How Brandon says “Ant” and I say “Aunt”, and we are all connected. How there’s a piece of me in her, her, and him, and a piece of them in me. How we love. How God has not only blended us through marriage but through a saving faith in Christ; we are brothers and sisters. Thank you, Lord.
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I think this weekend we got a taste of what heaven is like… when all God’s children get together, what a day of rejoicing it will be.
I think this weekend we were the best of MLK’s imagination.
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We live the dream, and it really is beautiful.
Very beautiful family!
So very beautiful!! I love seeing the pictures of your most precious and beautiful family!!!
You ARE living the dream; your sharing it with us give us all a bright, beautiful, shining example to follow. Love, love, love. xoxo
Your pictures prove how beautiful it really is.
Love this. Thank you for sharing your beautiful hodge podge family!!
Gorgeous, all of you! So many beautiful faces!
This is beautiful!
Your “rainbow” family is so beautiful!
beautiful and you are so right when u say a taste of heaven, i loved looking at all of your beautiful faces:)
What a gorgeous family! I look at my family the same way… we have a few different nationalities within it, and all the kids & cousins look so different. Each one is so precious and unique. I think yours is bigger though! xx
so beautiful and true.
Beautiful smiles all around!
Love everything about this, but most especially that you share it with us. Georgeous family! I’m sure it was a time full of many special memories.
Beautiful in every sense of the word. I love it!
What a beautiful family you have. You can feel the love in your photo’s. Thank you for sharing.
Those pictures just make me smile.
you guys are so very beautiful
Soo beautiful! MLK jr really would be sooo proud. And I am privilege to have you all in my life. What a week of great memories!
thanks, mlk, and all the others who fought to allow me to have the very bestest friends in the world!
So, so beautiful, both MLK jr’s courage and steadfast heart and your sweet family!
Beautiful…does bring to mind all nations on bended knee…thank you for sharing.
This was just recently when I went home to Massachusetts and my WHOLE family, immediate and extended, were all together again. I am so blessed to have so much love in my life.