Thursday, September 4, 2008

Large. Loud. Catholic. Texan.

LARGE: I'm the middle of 5 children, and James is one of 4 kids...total tally there is 4 girls and 5 boys amongst the O'Banion/Schuelke mix which leads us to...

LOUD: With all of those bodies and individual opinions around, both of our families somehow developed reputations for louder and livelier conversations than the Joneses. Football games in the living room, dinner time discussions, getting ready for church...all of it LOUD as heck. Shy people beware...speak up or be spoken over.

CATHOLIC: Both of our families passed onto us a love of the faith and traditions of the Roman Catholic church. Our parents valued attending Mass as a family, going to Sunday school, praying every day and counting our blessings to be in communion with the oldest Christian faith tradition. Because of them we love God, Mary our Mother, the Holy Father and ginormous families in the pews at church with stairstep kids.

TEXAN: Even though we've been temporarily transplanted to New England, we're Texans born and bred. We graduated from UT-Austin and we're typical superfans...pictures of the Tower in our living room, annoy our neighbors on gameday with Texas Fight, and we meet most challenges in life with the same chant...Hook 'Em.