Welcome to the Dean Family Home Page!
Introduction
Our youngest son is named Hunter Christian Dean and he was born on October 14, 2000 at 4:26 a.m. He weighed 8 pounds, 5 ounces and was 21 1/2 inches long. He is very handsome, as you can tell by the picture! He has strawberry blond hair and blue-gray eyes. He loves to eat vegetables and eggs, just about anything! And CANDY! He is not a baby anymore, he is a little boy! To see pictures of him and our family,
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To the right is our oldest son, Camden Nicholas Dean. He was born on September 15, 1998 and weighed 8 pounds, 15 ounces. He loves being a big brother! He is a great brother to Hunter. Camden and Hunter love to play together, and sometimes fight together!! They are both very good boys. Camden has sandy blond hair and light blue eyes. Everyone always tells me how pretty his eyes are! He is such a big boy, and he is very smart. He entered the Gifted program at school in 2nd grade. He loves playing games on the computer and PS2. If only he would eat more foods! The only vegetable I can get him to eat regularly is raw spinach, although he loves the V8 Fusion juice, which is fruit and vegetable.
How we met
We met on a long-distance blind date, which was arranged by my uncle. He called me up and asked when I was coming up to visit. It seemed suspicious to me, so I asked him why. Well, it turns out he was matchmaking. He knew a nice young man (my age) at church that he wanted me to meet. What did I have to lose? If I didn't like him, he was 350 miles away and I wouldn't have to see him again. So, I took a chance and I drove up to Atlanta for the weekend. I am sure glad my uncle invited me, because 7 months later Greg and I were engaged! We are both very grateful to my Uncle Richard who helped us find each other. We were married on October 8, 1994! This picture was taken on our honeymoon. This was at Dollywood in Pigeon Forge, Tennessee. On our honeymoon, we went to Brunswick, Savannah, Asheville, and Gatlinburg.
To the right are Greg's parents, Don and Sandra. They have four grandchildren now! They are really doting, as all good grandparents should be! They live in Tennessee. This picture was taken at Rock City. We were able to visit with them at Thanksgiving after Camden was born so they could see him for the first time! It was a lot of fun. Camden got to meet his Great Grandpa and two Great Grannies, too! We took Hunter up for his first Thanksgiving, too. To the left are Brenda's parents, Warren and Vivian. Camden is their first grandchild and Hunter is the second. Needless to say, they love them very much! This picture was taken at our wedding in 1994. They have been wanting grandchildren ever since! They got their wish! They really love the little ones. The grandchildren get more than their share of attention. They love being grandparents, and they are good at it! Their other interests include ballroom dancing, and they are really good at that, too. They also enjoy camping and traveling, as many retirees do. Camden and Hunter love all of their Grandparents! Family History
Now we are the parents of two wonderful boys! Camden was born 2 days before his due date. It was a long delivery, 22 hours from the time my water broke until he was born. We went through some difficulties in trying to conceive. I went through various tests for about 8 months, and then my doctor put me on Clomid because I was not ovulating. After just 2 cycles of Clomid, we conceived! Everything happened at once; we found out I was pregnant on January 10th, and earlier the very same week Greg had just turned in his notice at work so we could move to Jacksonville to be nearer to my family. What timing! We did not know what was going to happen, but God knew what He was doing. We know that He will take care of us throughout everything. Greg moved to Jacksonville in February 1998 to find a job, and I stayed behind to continue working until we could sell our home. I moved to Jacksonville in May after the house sale was final. Then I had to find a new doctor to deliver my baby. I found a good one in Orange Park, where we now live. He also delivered Hunter. I was in labor for 12 hours with Hunter. We love being parents. There is really no way to describe how wonderful it is to have children. It just takes your breath away! Camden and Hunter get more precious every day. However, we are not planning on having any more! Our Home
We purchased a HUD foreclosure in September 1998. It was quite a process. We just learned as we went along. Luckily, we had a good realtor who deals specifically with HUD and VA foreclosed homes, and he was a great help since we had no idea how it all worked when we first started down this path. There is really not much information out there for people who are interested in this type of investment. You either have to talk with someone who has done it in the past, or just figure it out along the way. We had lots of renovations we had to do before we could even move in. Our closing was on September 22, 1998, one week after Camden was born. We had faith that God would help us through, and He has! We had our final inspection on April 21, 1999. We are still doing new projects when we can. We have a very lovely home now.
Faith in God
We are all born-again Christians, and we are members of a wonderful church in Jacksonville. Everyone is nice and friendly and we feel right at home there. The church is larger than the one we attended in Georgia, but we like it. We both sing in the choir. The Lord has blessed our lives so much and we love Him! We know that He will take care of us and our two little boys. The boys are both getting ready to begin Upward Basketball at church.
Here is a picture of us from Easter Sunday, April 16, 2006. Hunter was 5 1/2 and Camden was 7 1/2. We went to church and then to Grandma & Grandpa's house afterwards. In February of 2006, Brenda was diagnosed with breast cancer. She had her surgery 10 days after Easter and the doctor did not get it all, so a second surgery about 4 weeks later. Then 33 daily radiation treatments, ending on 8/28/06. No prescriptions or chemotherapy! Please remember us in your prayers so that there will be no recurrence. We know that God will see us through this time. He has already blessed us with being able to find it early, totally through some symptoms Brenda had that caused her to go to the doctor to be checked, which her surgeon said were probably not related to the cancer but while checking it out the cancer just happened to be found. Isn't God wonderful?!
The Grandparents
Here are our parents, which are also known as Pa, Nana, Grandma, & Grandpa!!
Our first official 4-member family portrait, 12/2000
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