About us

June 25, 1995 💕

June 2023 - 28 years

12 children, 3 children-in-law, 6 grandbabies
Life is full!

The boys

The girls

Samwise and Belladonna now have 2 girls! SB1 is 2 and SB2 was born in February 2023. Sam works for Radiographic Services with installs and warehouse maintenance. He also fixes all our cars with amazing skill and does the farm field work. They have their own 5 acre hobby farmette with some goats. Belladonna is a master crochet artist selling her wares at local farmers' markets.

Galadriel and Celeborn now have a girl and a boy. Girl GC 1 will be 2 in September and GC 2 was born in January 2023.  Galadriel stays home with the busy babies making a lovely home for themselves. They are goat farming  on a 40 acre farmette. They also have some other miscellaneous animals that come along like meat bunnies and chickens. Celeborn works for UPS in the maintenance department. 

Eowyn is almost 25, she works for St. Aloysius Catholic School as a teaching assistant. She enjoys writing novels. She attends the annual Sursum Corda Retreats as well as March for Life.

Frodo and Goldberry now have 2 boys. FG1 is 2 and FG2 was born in May 2023. Frodo has is own construction company building house and other smaller projects. He is doing amazing work. He is busy with renovating their home, including tearing off the whole kitchen which was in disrepair and building a whole new one! It's still in the works. Goldberry is busy making their home with the 2 boys who keep her very busy. She sings in our choir.

Rosie is 22 and works at St. Peter's Catholic School as their hot lunch coordinator planning meals, grocery shopping, cooking and serving. She also attends Sursum Corda. She wows us with her artwork of painting and sketching. She enjoyed Taekwondo competition and is in the Legacy instructor training program.

Eleanor is 20 and works for Radiographic Services tending to the calendar and office work. She loves photography and has a great eye for beautiful photo taking.

Merry is 19 and works in the lumber yard at Dane Lumber. He usually rides an electric bike to work or his onewheel. He enjoys making shorts and short videos. He competes in Taekwondo and won a district title in Creative Forms. He is in the Legacy Training program and hopes to test for Level 2 instructor soon.

Pippin is 17 and a senior in high school. He is the chess whiz and enjoys chess tournaments. He also competes in Taekwondo and earned a district title with his team in Team Sparring.

Bilbo is 15 and in 10th grade. He is raising meat rabbits. He competes in Taekwondo in a very tough ring but doing amazingly well for being the young one in the group.

Poppy is almost 14 and in 9th grade. She continues to like science and is a great student. She competed for her first time this season and placed 2nd and 3rd in sparring and combat at the district championship.

Marigold is 12 and in 7th grade. She is all ART and more ART. She loves to paint and draw and any crafts. She recently started making candles. Her aspiration is to be an artist. He takes Taekwondo and is a red/black belt.

Our baby, Kili turned double digits this year and is now 10 years old and in 5th grade.  He is delighted to not be the "baby" any more now that there are 6 grandbabies in the mix. He will be joining the ranks of the 9 Trinity Acres black belts this coming fall as a red/black belt.