meet the family

so as you can see from the pictures the AK Slaugs are a family of 4 right now. i was pretty much raised in alaska garret is a pennsylvania farm boy that found his way up here during his college years, and through a few twists and turns of life ended up settling here. i like to tell him it's because God knew i was here waiting for him. (feel free to either gag or hum a richard marx song now) i'm pretty sure his family likes me, but i'm not so sure they've forgiven me for making him stay so far away from home.

mary and garret (aka G)

then there's lily joy. she's...well....how do i phrase this...she's ACTIVE. i mean that in a good way. she's our precious daughter who learned to walk before she was 10 months old and hasn't stopped running or climbing since. she's not hyper or ADHD she just likes to play. a lot. all the time.  her favorite thing to do since before she was 1 is to climb. she's pretty good at it (usually) but it tends to  freak people out.

lily joy (2)

 next up gideon, our not so little man. he's not tall like his sister, but he's got all the makings of a bruiser. let me go ahead and address the most popular question- we have no idea where his red hair came from. G and i both have a cousin with red hair, but we're pretty sure that garret's side is mostly the reason for gideon's looks. in fact little g and big G look a lot alike (other than the hair) , and tend to favor garret's mom's side of the family tree.

gideon (9 months)

this is what you didn't see in the family photo. this is the newest addition to the Slaugenhoup family. this little girl has a remarkable story all her own, and it's only getting started.

baby #3 (aka baby girl) 
so that's the family, but that doesn't really get you up to speed on what's going on, so here goes the super condensed version of the latest chapter of the AK Slaugs.