{"id":83,"date":"2008-12-09T22:38:07","date_gmt":"2008-12-10T05:38:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mattfloreen.com\/blog\/?p=83"},"modified":"2008-12-09T22:38:07","modified_gmt":"2008-12-10T05:38:07","slug":"the-gebhards-family","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mattfloreen.com\/blog\/?p=83","title":{"rendered":"The Gebhards Family"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As the pastor of the singles ministry where I was involved for many years, Kurt has had been one of the most influential people in my life.  So it was a great pleasure when he asked me to take photos of his beloved family.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/uploads\/2008\/12\/20081120-0255-gebhards.jpg\" alt=\"20081120-0255-gebhards.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Their kids, aka the Munch Bunch!<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/uploads\/2008\/12\/20081120-0070-gebhards.jpg\" alt=\"20081120-0070-gebhards.jpg\" \/><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/uploads\/2008\/12\/20081120-0081-gebhards.jpg\" alt=\"20081120-0081-gebhards.jpg\" \/><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/uploads\/2008\/12\/20081120-0114-gebhards.jpg\" alt=\"20081120-0114-gebhards.jpg\" \/><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/uploads\/2008\/12\/20081120-0079-gebhards.jpg\" alt=\"20081120-0079-gebhards.jpg\" \/><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/uploads\/2008\/12\/20081120-0099-gebhards.jpg\" alt=\"20081120-0099-gebhards.jpg\" \/><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/uploads\/2008\/12\/20081120-0133-gebhards.jpg\" alt=\"20081120-0133-gebhards.jpg\" \/><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/uploads\/2008\/12\/20081120-0299-gebhards.jpg\" alt=\"20081120-0299-gebhards.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Kurt told me that even though he never really played ball with his dad growing up, one of his ideas of what it meant to be a father was playing catch with his son.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/uploads\/2008\/12\/20081120-0212-gebhards.jpg\" alt=\"20081120-0212-gebhards.jpg\" \/><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/uploads\/2008\/12\/20081120-0219-gebhards.jpg\" alt=\"20081120-0219-gebhards.jpg\" \/><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/uploads\/2008\/12\/20081120-0230-gebhards.jpg\" alt=\"20081120-0230-gebhards.jpg\" \/><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/uploads\/2008\/12\/20081120-0074-gebhards.jpg\" alt=\"20081120-0074-gebhards.jpg\" \/><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/uploads\/2008\/12\/20081120-0179-gebhards.jpg\" alt=\"20081120-0179-gebhards.jpg\" \/><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/uploads\/2008\/12\/20081120-0265-gebhards.jpg\" alt=\"20081120-0265-gebhards.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Not quite at as tall as dad, yet.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/uploads\/2008\/12\/20081120-0170-gebhards.jpg\" alt=\"20081120-0170-gebhards.jpg\" \/><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/uploads\/2008\/12\/20081120-0316-gebhards.jpg\" alt=\"20081120-0316-gebhards.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Collecting acorns and leaves along the way&#8230;<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/uploads\/2008\/12\/20081120-0334-gebhards.jpg\" alt=\"20081120-0334-gebhards.jpg\" \/><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/uploads\/2008\/12\/20081120-0342-gebhards.jpg\" alt=\"20081120-0342-gebhards.jpg\" \/><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/uploads\/2008\/12\/20081120-0353-gebhards.jpg\" alt=\"20081120-0353-gebhards.jpg\" \/><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/uploads\/2008\/12\/20081120-0185-gebhards.jpg\" alt=\"20081120-0185-gebhards.jpg\" \/><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/uploads\/2008\/12\/20081120-0398-gebhards.jpg\" alt=\"20081120-0398-gebhards.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The Gebhards were so kind to let me be part of a special announcement to their kids.\u00c2\u00a0 They numbered the kids 1 through 5 before telling them that they were expecting number 6&#8230;<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/uploads\/2008\/12\/20081120-0391-gebhards.jpg\" alt=\"20081120-0391-gebhards.jpg\" \/><br \/>\n&#8230;which Kurt thought was quite enough&#8230;<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/uploads\/2008\/12\/20081120-0413-gebhards.jpg\" alt=\"20081120-0413-gebhards.jpg\" \/><br \/>\n&#8230;and the kids embraced the idea of a new sibling with general approval.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/uploads\/2008\/12\/20081120-0194-gebhards.jpg\" alt=\"20081120-0194-gebhards.jpg\" \/><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/uploads\/2008\/12\/20081120-0250-gebhards.jpg\" alt=\"20081120-0250-gebhards.jpg\" \/><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/uploads\/2008\/12\/20081120-0098-gebhards.jpg\" alt=\"20081120-0098-gebhards.jpg\" \/><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/uploads\/2008\/12\/20081120-0425-gebhards.jpg\" alt=\"20081120-0425-gebhards.jpg\" \/><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/uploads\/2008\/12\/20081120-0327-gebhards.jpg\" alt=\"20081120-0327-gebhards.jpg\" \/><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/uploads\/2008\/12\/20081120-0402-gebhards.jpg\" alt=\"20081120-0402-gebhards.jpg\" \/>\\<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/uploads\/2008\/12\/20081120-0006-gebhards.jpg\" alt=\"20081120-0006-gebhards.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>To the whole Gebhards family, thanks for sharing your day with me.\u00c2\u00a0 I learned a number of valuable lessons about what it means to be a parent just from spending that time with you.\u00c2\u00a0 You have been a huge blessing to me!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the pastor of the singles ministry where I was involved for many years, Kurt has had been one of the most influential people in my life. So it was a great pleasure when he asked me to take photos of his beloved family. Their kids, aka the Munch Bunch! Kurt told me that even [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-83","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-families"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfloreen.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfloreen.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfloreen.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfloreen.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfloreen.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=83"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mattfloreen.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfloreen.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=83"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfloreen.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=83"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfloreen.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=83"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}