Hello!  We are the Seth and Havilah Angle family.  Our days are full of learning to live well as a family… in love, patience, and forgiveness, with our lives submitted to Christ. Seth is a mechanical engineer, manager of a small business, by day…and a loving husband, busy father, problem solver, appliance fixer, homesteader, and much more by night. I am wife, mother, small business manager (ie homemaker), teacher of our home-school, and about a hundred gillion other things.

We are an adoptive family.  Our oldest child, Ephraim, came to us from Liberia in June of 2008.  He is growing tall, strong, agile, and learning that tender way of  trust in Jesus… learning to keep his ear open to the Spirit speaking in his own heart. He sometimes carries the memory of his past well, and sometimes struggles under the load of its sorrow.  The latter times are hard on us all.  Yet, we look back and marvel at the faithfulness of the Father in Ephraim’s life and are filled with hope for the future.

Eden is two years younger than Ephraim.  She is our sweet biological daughter, filling our days with color and creativity and feminine beauty.  I am forever thankful for her companionship in the middle of days full of testosterone.

Zion is next in line, also our biological son.  He is two years younger than Eden, red-headed, freckled-faced, introverted, and smart as a whip…cracking through schoolwork two years beyond his expected grade.  Not a day goes by that he doesn’t remind me of his papa, which, of course, suits me just fine.

Ezekiel, or Zeke, as we call him, is our fourth child. He also came from Liberia in 2008 to be our forever son.  He and Ephraim are biological brothers.  He is affectionate, charming, and handsome, always looking for something to drum on or some music to groove along with.  He seems more affected by the transitions in his life than Ephraim and we are still slowly moving through hard-to-solve issues in his little life that sometimes have us stumped and fatigued.  We are blessed and thankful that God sent him to us, and pray always for healing of the pain in his past.

Israel, also know as Izzy, is the baby of the family, though we try not to baby him…too much.  His brain isn’t babied though and he asks me all day to “teach him something”…learning to read at age 4, putting elementary grade puzzles together, building innovative machines out of magnets and Legos, and his favorite…”helping me” cook.

We have the privilege of living on adjoining properties with Seth’s parents and two of his brothers and their families.  Seth and his brother, Joe, are hobby homesteaders.  Thus, our little slice of land is full of bee boxes, chickens, dogs, horses, and a milk cow and her calf.  There is plenty to do here, so if you’ve nothing to do and are happening by…stop in and say “Hi!”  If it’s a good day, I may come out on the porch and show you around, or invite you in for a cup of hot coffee.  But be warned, most of my days are lived as an introvert overwhelmed by the noise of many little people sitting in a pile of schoolbooks trying my hardest to make some sense of too many teacher’s manuals…so I might not even come to the door.  But you are welcome anyway.