Steve:  Thirteen Grandchildren.  Who could have guessed?  The Miamisburg School System really did teach our children how to multiply!  Then there was the rush to beat the 2K barrier, three grandchildren and a wedding within four months in 1999.  What a year!!!

Lynn:  Steve was 49 and I was 47 in 1997 when we became grandparents of a darling baby granddaughter.  We were overjoyed!   In 1999 we were blessed with three more grandchildren—a granddaughter and two grandsons—within a four-month-period.   In 2001, just prior to 9-11, another grandson was born.  The following year the next grandson made his debut.

Our ‘second wave’ of grandchildren began arriving about five years later.  By this time Steve and I were in our late fifties.  Within four years we’d giddily embraced the arrival of a new granddaughter, grandson, then two more granddaughters!   In November 2011 we welcomed two adult grandchildren into the fold!  Our thirteenth grandchild, another precious grandson, was born in 2013.  Steve and I had reached our mid-60s—and the heights of unbridled joy!  We were ecstatic about having been so blessed to have a ‘baker’s dozen’ of grandchildren—and their parents—in our lives.