Family.

Lately, I have become an uncle for the second time. His name is Briggs. He makes a great addition to our family. I met him for the first time this past weekend. He is such a little champ. I cant wait to influence his taste in music and style of clothes.

While I was home, my entire family was in the same building for the first time in quite a while. The Tiehen Tribe was in back in full force. I couldn’t have been happier when I saw the ones I love the most together around one table. It was a moment that will be cherished for a lifetime.

I have been blessed with such a great group of people to call my family. I was born in Denver CO to a different set of parents. I spent my first years under the big city lights, all I do remember of that time seems like a blurry dream. The wonderful lady who gave birth to me was not in the best situation to provide properly for a child. My self and my brother, from the same mother, were given up to the ‘system’. From what I know, we bounced from home to guardian to home. The whole time God was preparing a family, who we didn’t know yet, to be our true family. I remember the exact moment when I became apart of this family. I think on it now, and that was a gift from God, to be able to clearly remember that. It was in a courthouse conference room, we were all sitting around another table. I remember the man in a suit asked me if I was ok with being the youngest in my new family, as if that was the determining factor o whether or not I was to be a apart of this family. I didn’t hear the man all the way so I was puzzled for a second but I said yes. Man, I didn’t know what I was getting into. I just agreed to be apart of the most loving, crazy, joyful people in Montana. I didn’t know how much I needed these people. God knew. He had His hand in my life from even before I was born. He had a purpose set out and waiting for me when I was brought out into this chilly world.
            I love my family. I hope I can build up a family even remotely close to this great one. But before I start making copies of myself, I will continue to love and be loved by the family God gave me.