Joel

This here is Joel the Mole. He's married to Susanna, whom everyone calls Zanny. He has a very serious side and a very silly side. Unfortunately growing up, we all absorbed the silliness and it drove us nuts and now poor Zanny's the only one. But, he's very smart, steady, and enduring. He's doing his residency in orthopedic surgery--it's kind of like a mix between carpentry and medicine. (I guess he really enjoyed building with my dad). They just had a little baby named Luke Daniel. Joel and Daniel were best friends and partners in crime. Starting about 8th grade I began to look up to him in many ways, but especially in his relationship with the Lord and he would take care of me. Our laughs our similar in nature--like a machine gun going off in your throat. He was never afraid of being different. In high school he would wear his socks pulled way up high to his knees and neon colored umbro shorts. We were all like, "Joel, you look stupid." He just didn't care. He drove an old orange truck we called pumpkin. He's very responsible and serious, so people often respect him, but when you're with him, he's very down-to-earth and displays an immaturity that is so disarming.:) When someone would tell us how highly they thought of him, the girls in the fam would just be like, "well yeah, you don't know him. He's gross." He loves blue bell ice cream and cereal. He had this tall orange bowl growing up he'd fill all the way to the top with milk and cereal. I'd get mad cause he'd take all the milk, and what's worse, he'd drive us nuts with his slurping. Ewww. Nowadays, we all are callin' him with our every medical complaint and question and he bears it quite well. We were at the pharmacy and Dad just had to point out to the clerk that the doctor who filled out his prescription was his son. ;)