Essick Family News

                                           What are the Essick children up to these days?

                              

 

                                 Beth & Donald

On July 10, 2007 Dempsey sobbed as he walked Elizabeth Ann down the steps at the beautiful Ragged Garden Inn to marry Donald J. Brookshire, Jr. And then Dempsey sobbed again on August 5, 2008 when Beth & Donald presented him and Shelley with their first grandchild, Elim Luke Brookshire.  

 

 

“Cute as a Button”

Elim’s Birth Announcement Postcard

 

 

 

 

 

Dempsey and Shelley Essick

are pleased to announce that their daughter,

Elizabeth Ann Essick Brookshire,

received her Masters in Biology from the

University of North Carolina at Greensboro

on May 17, 2008

 

 

 

      Post Script: As of 9/09 Elizabeth  is enrolled  in  the

      Physician’s Assistant Program at Methodist College

      in Fayetteville.

 

 

 

                                              John & Amber

                    It was on Dempsey’s birthday, March 18, 2005

                    that John Dempsey Essick, Jr took Amber Celeste

                    Inscore as his bride.

 

John proposed to Amber on the River Walk

 in San Antonio, Texas

 

(Photo removed at mother’s request)

 

John and Amber  opted not to know the sex of their

child before birth. This is a sonogram of Baby X, or

                  Sweet  Pea as he/she  was referred to in the family.

 

 

 

John at Seminary

 

 

 

Merry Christmas 2008

 

 

 

Little Elim is always smiling

(6 months)

 

 

                    Elim is a  cut up as you  can see  here

when he is wearing Dearie’s birthday

                    glasses. Beth uses this photo to make

                    her own birthday cards.

(7 months)

 

 

 

Each  holding  a paint brush , Elim tried to  assist

Dempsey as he painted “Face to Face” but it just

         did not work out.  (11 months)

 

Yes, I look like Mommy’s baby picture!

(12 months)

 

 

Happy Birthday Elim.

 1 Year Old on August 5, 2009.

 

Elim St. Nic (16 months)

 

See the boys in our cute

 Christmas 2009 Newspaper Ad

Click to enlarge and read

about our adventure with Baby Olin

 

 

This is Shelley’s favorite picture of Baby Olin

(4 months old)

 

 

...and this is Dempsey’s favorite picture.

(5 months)

 

 

Baby Olin is welcomed home in a big way

                     when he visits Poppi D and Dearie all the

                     way from Lexington, Kentucky.

 ( 6 months old)

 

Baby Olin LOVES Dearie’s Button Collection

(8 months old)

 

 

 

 

 

 

Olin

Timothy

Inscore

Essick

is excited

about

turning

9 months

old.

 

John, Amber & Baby Olin