I met Tim Brown and some of his family while I was shooting photographs of sledders at Sterling Middle School last December. While talking with him, I found out that he had just adopted three Ethiopian children making his family seven in number, with three other Ethiopian children they adopted earlier.

I had planned to visit them at the farm last winter but plans had to be changed and I was finally able to clear a day earlier this month to spend the afternoon with them at home.

It turns out that both Tim and his wife have roots in the Stanwood community and Warm Beach Family camp to be specific; a camp that my family had attended for many years when our children were smaller. Both their parents worked at the camp in the past so they grew up running around there as children and eventually working there for a period of time not too long ago.

It was fun to see, and maybe just my impression, that they run their home much like a family camp with very specific schedules and lots of games going on all the time.

Dinner is buffet style and eaten on a ping pong table.

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