Duggar girls!

Top: Jessa, Jana, Anna, Amy, Joy Anna, Jinger, Jill
Button: Josie, Mackynzie, Jordyn-Grace, Jennifer, Johannah

It's been a while since the Duggar girls got a photo together besides Jessa's wedding. Cousin Amy had gotten married about a week ago and the girls wanted a photo with their cousin.

Amy is the oldest granddaughter of Grandma Duggar. Anna is married to Josh

 

May 2015

Birthdays
* Jill Dillard
* Ben Seewald
* Jackson Duggar
* Mary "Grandma" Duggar

Anniversary
* Ben and Jessa's six months anniversary
* Derick and Jill's eleven months anniversary
* Josiah and Marjorie's first month anniversary 

Journey to parenthood:
* Journey to parenthood: three months to go
* Journey to parenthood: four months pregnant

Pregnancy updates:
Jessa: 14-18 weeks pregnant
Anna: 30-34 weeks pregnant

All about Israel
All about Israel: Fourth week of life
All about Israel: One month old

Mother's day 2015

three grandbabies in one year

For ten weeks, the girls were all pregnant at the same time. Jill was at the end of her pregnancy when Jessa found out that she was pregnant.

Jill- due March 2015 but gave birth on April 6, 2015
Anna- due July 2015
Jessa-due November 2015

Preview: Birthing Class and Teamwork

Back to the grind, Michelle and the little ones take dog Bubba for a bath. Joy delegates chores now that Jill and Jessa are out of the house. Anna sews up a present for the newlyweds, Jessa and Ben while Jill and Derick attend their first birthing class.

Preview: Invites and Ride-Alongs

A few weeks away from matrimony, Jessa and Ben ask Josh to design their wedding invitations. Is Josh up for this super-sized task? Jill creates a gift for Derick's mom. And Jim Bob joins John David on a police ride along.

Jordyn and Jinger's birthday trivia

We decided to put Jordyn and Jinger's birthday trivia in this week's weekly birthday trivia.

1. How old was Jinger when Jordyn was born?

2. How old was Jordyn when Josie was born?

3. How old was Jinger when Josie was born?

4. Was Jordyn born on her due date?

5. Was Jinger in Josh, Jill and Jessa's wedding?

Surprise!

Duggar trivia questions has returned! I know many of you have missed it!

1. How old was Josh when Jana and John were born?

2. How old was Jill when she got married?

3. How old was Jessa when she got married?

4. How many months has Derick and Jill been married?

5. Who was at Johannah's birth?

Answers will be given on Saturday!

Birthday trivia returns on December 9th!

19 kids and counting "Duggar Girls Go Glam"

The older Duggar girls head to Freshair Salon for hair and makeup styles for Jill's wedding. This is the first time that the girls go to Salons. They normally head to friends who can cut hair and do that for them. The girls get their hair curled and pull back. On the day of the wedding, they all decided to wear their hair curly and mostly down since it's Derick's favorite.

Jana reveals that she is not in a courtship right now. Joy Anna reveals that she doesn't want to enter a courtship right now. She turns 17 years old at the end of this month.

The girls head to try on bridesmaid dresses that are modest and will be able to wear for future events. The girls fall n love with the mint green dress and has to do additional dress to make sleeves and rise the neckline and length. The dresses cost around 30 bucks for each. Jana is the girls main seamstress even through the other girl are proficient at sewing. Jessa and Joy are still working on their sewing skills.

Anna and the kids are learning how to make healthy foods from a friend that they met at the market. For a snack they create, Meatball, grape, pineapple kabobs which Mackynzie and Michael fall in love with. Heather introduces finger potatoes cook in olive oil, garlic, salt, and pepper along with green beans and squash; and salmon with peaches. Josh approves of the new cooking while the kids don't enjoy the squash but loves the rest.

Trivia questions #2

Hey guys, we are back with the second week of trivia.

1. What were Jill and Derick's wedding colors?

2. How old was Justin on the first special aired?

3. How old was Jackson when they started the first season?

4. How long did it take for Anna to get pregnant with their first child?

5. How many years did it take Jim Bob and Michelle to get pregnant with their first child?


Don't forget to check on Sunday for the answers of this week's trivia

Trivia answers

Thank you all that were apart of our trivia questions this past week and here's the answers of this week's trivia questions.

1. How long did Derick know Jim Bob before he made his first contract with Jill? 1 year and half

2. How long has Ben and Jessa been courting? 10 months

3. How long were Derick and Jill courting before getting engaged? 5 months

4. How long has it been since Josh and Anna got engaged? six years

5. How many years has Jim Bob and Michelle been married? almost 30 years

Stay tune tomorrow!

instagram??

We have been asked if we have instagram?

We don't have instagram.

The duggars are on instagram
@Duggarfam

@ben_seewald

@joshduggar

@annaduggar

@jillmdillard

@derickdillard

@amyduggar

Jill's update

Derick and Jill have been married for almost two weeks and Jill is learning that she doesn't have to make tripe amount since there is only two of them right now. Jill is still spending time with her family or at school while Derick is at work.

Jill recently packed a lunch for her husband and headed to his work to have a lunch date with him. It was so sweet of her to do that

 

Jill also was hanging out with her brother James who is about to turn 13 on Monday!

Michelle Duggar's Marriage Advice for Newlyweds

Question from a "19 Kids and Counting" fan: What advice will you give Jill as a newlywed wife to keep in mind throughout her marriage?

1. Be available
First, I’m going to pass on the advice that was given to me by a dear friend Gala. Whenever I speak with groups of other moms and married women, I always share this advice. It’s been the best advice that was ever given to me in regard to my relationship to my husband Jim Bob.

Gala had only been married for three years, but she had very wise advice. I was about six months out from getting married, and was just all bleary eyed and in love. I couldn’t wait to be married and be called “Mrs. Jim Bob Duggar.” That was the dream of my life.

She told me: “Michelle, I know you’re so excited. You’re a bride-to-be, but some day you’ll be at this point. I’ve been married three years and I’m still happily married. I have one child, we’re expecting our second and I’m big pregnant. You’ve got to remember this. Anyone can iron Jim Bob’s shirt, anybody can make lunch for him. He can get his lunch somewhere else. But you are the only one who can meet that special need that he has in his life for intimacy. You’re it. You’re the only one. So don’t forget that, that he needs you. So when you are exhausted at the end of the day, maybe from dealing with little ones, and you fall into bed so exhausted at night, don’t forget about him because you and he are the only ones who can have that time together. No one else in the world can meet that need.”

“And so be available, and not just available, but be joyfully available for him. Smile and be willing to say, ‘Yes, sweetie I am here for you,’ no matter what, even though you may be exhausted and big pregnant and you may not feel like he feels. ‘I’m still here for you and I’m going to meet that need because I know it’s a need for you.’ ”

I’ve realized the sweetness of that through the years. While I am always joyfully available for him, in turn, he’ll lay down his life in any way. He will sit there and listen to everything I need to tell him because he knows that I’m there for him, too. I’m meeting his needs, he’s meeting my needs. We’re willing to be there for each other. And each one of us has different needs in a marriage relationship and that’s what’s so precious. I’ll share this advice with Jill so she knows that she’s got to be a wife first and then later, Lord willing, she’ll be a mother. Her responsibility before God and Derick needs to come first. It’s not just me and the Lord; it’s me and the Lord and my husband.

2. Talk about disagreements privately
Another piece of advice, I’ll tell Jill – don’t ever talk about things in front of your children that are supposed to be between you and your husband only. Step aside and say we’re going to talk about this privately. And don’t ever put your husband down in front of your children or other people, especially your families. Talk privately. We always say in our family, we praise publicly, but we correct privately. And that’s marriage advice that I would give to anyone.

3. Get marriage advice when you need it
There are going to be those times in your marriage where you might not always agree; you might not see things eye to eye and sometimes you may need a trusted third party to be a counsel for you in your marriage. Feel free to go to that trusted wise counsel that you both respect and get counsel when you need it. We have all been there. Yes, we have a oneness with spirit in Christ, but there are times that we need others to give us life counsel. So be willing to go seek it together.

It’s important to note that you can get marriage counseling in a lot of different ways. Your friends are very quick to offer advice, but it might not always be the wise advice you need to hear. Another option is to listen to to messages from scriptural teachers together. Through the years as we have gone to marriage retreats, Jim Bob and I have tried to take time out as a couple to listen to messages from other couples that have either learned from their mistakes or from others with the Christian perspective that we share. Even if you can’t afford to get away for the weekend, that’s fine. In our early days, we’d often plan a romantic dinner and listen to readings together and have grandma babysit. It would strengthen our relationship.

Jim Bob and I say we have the best love life ever because we’re so experienced now, but we are also still learning about each other and it’s just great. I’ve gone back and reread some books that were helpful to me and I’m writing out notes to share with Jill. I’ll be giving her a little bridal package that has lots of things that she’ll need for the honeymoon. Jill is very understanding of a lot of things because she’s a midwife and she’s helped a lot of mothers. But there are still a lot of things that I want to share with her before her wedding night. For me, it’s a whole different perspective because I’m sharing this information with my daughter.

And even fellows need a lot of help! These guys need to know they can’t go into this thinking they’re all macho. They need to get their knowledge from the right perspective to go into things with the right ideas.

For Michelle’s recommending reading for newlyweds, visit the Duggar Family website.

Have a burning question for Michelle Duggar? Send it to her and it could appear in an upcoming post!

Nine days and counting

Derick and Jill are excited to share the rest of their lives together. They will be getting married in nine days and counting.

The Big Question: Preview

While in Nepal, Jim Bob gets a shave and Jill volunteers her midwife services at a birthing center. Before they head back to Arkansas, Derick has something to ask Jill.

Recap: A duggar say yes

In this week's episode of 19 kids and counting, Ben and Jessa give us a look inside of their courtship and how their relationship began. Ben and Jessa met at the Duggar family church. Jessa and Ben exchanged phone numbers to get to know each other. Ben decided to get the premission of Jim Bob and Michelle to court their daughter before asking Jessa.
Ben is 18 years old and lives in Hot Springs, Arkansas with his parents and six younger brothers and sisters. He owns his own business which is a windshield repair and is a freshman at National Park Community College. Jessa told us that Ben is tall, dark and handosme which was pretty much what was on her list of what she wanted to marry.
Jim Bob and Michelle along with 17 of their children revealed their sister as an energetic, strong-willed child. They also told us that she likes to tell it how it is, loyal to her family and friends. She tries to keep a good handle on her emtions. John David reveals that his sister is opinionated.
Jim Bob and Michelle make the announcement that their daughter is courting to the rest of the family right after it's becomes offical. Jim Bob and Michelle talk to the new couple that just because they are courting doesn't mean that they have to be maried really fast. Jim Bob joking suggest that they wed about four or five years down the road. He just wants his daughter and Ben to work on building their relationship on trust and God's love.
Later on the show, Jim Bob and the boys want to clean up some yard work and what better way to test Ben's character about taking care of their sister. They have him come out and help.
Meanwhile Jessa and the girls are busy getting ready for dinner. Michelle wants to help encourage Jessa on cooking since Jessa thinks that she is a bad cook. After the boys are finished, it's time for dinner. Jim Bob and Michelle asked Johannah to stand between Jessa and Ben since they just started the courthip and have decided to wait on the physical until they are married.
Jessa and Michelle are heading to Hot Springs to visit Ben's family members so they can get to know the other family. Jessa and the older girls are upstairs packing. They want to spend a lot of time together since they might be soon be leaving if God is wanting that.
Jill and the other girls know that marriage is not going to happen in age order because God works in his own time and not what we want him to work. Jinger and Jessa have always been close since they are 14 months apart. Jinger thinks that it's bittersweet since her sister is in a courtship and might be leaving.
John David filies his mom and sister down to where Ben lives. Ben drives a truck which only has the front seat and that means that Michelle has to sit in the middle to protect the new couple's relationship.
Ben and Jessa are going on a date with Ben's parents and so Michelle watches the kids while they go out so Ben's parents can get to know her daughter. Jessa and Michelle get to meet Ben's extended family when they come over for BBQ and fellowship.
Back home while Jessa and Michelle are away, Jim Bob takes care of the youngest girls. Jim Bob takes the kids to pizza and ask them what they think of Ben which has nothing but good things.
Jim Bob asked his daughter, Jennifer, about if she has plan to married some day and she doesn't have any plans.
Jim Bob thinks that both Jessa and Jill's coursthips will bring more guys forward to seek the older duggar girls and maybe even some of the boys.
* This is the first time that there has not been an opening of all of the family. *

Another courtship annoucement

Jill Duggar and Derick Dillard have started a courtship. From what we have been told the couple has been courting since November 2013.

Is Jill courting?

We have been told some big news but we were asked to wait to announced it

"Growing Up Duggar" Book Tour

The duggar girls book is scheduled March 4, 2014. Jana, Jill, Jessa, and Jinger are heading to PA (March 12)  and TN  (March 17) to signed their first book that the girls wrote together.

Wednesday, March 12, 2014, 7-9pm
Jana, Jill, Jessa, and Jinger Duggar to sign books at Barnes & Noble Booksellers
58 South 32nd Street, Camp Hill, PA 17011
Questions? Call 717-737-0221



Monday, March 17, 2014, 7pm
Jana, Jill, Jessa, and Jinger Duggar to sign books at Barnes & Noble Booksellers
2100 Hamilton Place Boulevard, Chattanooga, TN 37421
Questions? Call 423-893-0186

Update: Growing Up Duggar

The book "Growing up Duggar" was written by the four oldest girls (Jana, Jill, Jessa, and Jinger) was original schedule to be hitting book stores in November is pushed back to March 2014. There will be more updates to come.