Sweet Fellowship: Duggars and Friends (aka the Bates Family and Other Featured Families Thread)

[lilwhitelion]

12 hours ago, awaken said:

What does that mean, “to do Lilla Rose”??

the pained grimace is BIZARRE!

one of the Plath young ladies is wearing an eye trap shirt!

The Bible institute looks deadly boring. And WHY is NotNurie standing that close to the older man, with arms touching??  

Looks like Lilla Rose is an MLM for hair accessories.  Makes sense for this crowd, as hair is certainly something they have in abundance.

[libgirl2]

10 hours ago, galaxychaser said:

Nuries hair is so dry it can catch on fire.

Sperm brows x 2.

She needs several inches cut off and a good conditioner. 

[MyPeopleAreNordic]

23 hours ago, crazy8s said:

the rodriguii had a visit with the Plath family sort of.

most awkward pics of the not Nuries. How exciting  the young women played Uno....

https://www.instagram.com/rodriguesfamilyservingjesus/?hl=en

"Last Friday night, we were excited to travel to Hosanna (Plath) Noble's Grandmother (in laws) LOVELY home to do Lilla Rose, Fellowship, and visit with these dear friends! 😁❤ Lydia and Isaac Plath were up from Georgia for a visit to Hosanna. We love these precious friends of ours! 😍😍"

 

26 minutes ago, lilwhitelion said:

Looks like Lilla Rose is an MLM for hair accessories.  Makes sense for this crowd, as hair is certainly something they have in abundance.

Thanks for the explanation.  I was wondering how you "do Lilla Rose."

 

[BetyBee]

29 minutes ago, MyPeopleAreNordic said:

Thanks for the explanation.  I was wondering how you "do Lilla Rose."

 

I'm sure anyone named Lilla Rose is breathing easier now!

[galaxychaser]

1 hour ago, MyPeopleAreNordic said:

Thanks for the explanation.  I was wondering how you "do Lilla Rose."

 

X rated lol 

shhh don’t tell Timmy Rodrigues

[Temperance]

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The Magento Platform:

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So basically Swift Otter is a IT and tech support company. 

The director of Swift Otter is Joseph Maxwell. Joseph is one of Steve Maxwell's children. He was the first child born after Steve had his vasectomy reversed. (Something Steve is very public about.)  Joseph employs his brothers Jesse and Christopher.  He also has four other employees, all-male.  In the past some of the Maxwell girls, have done some bookkeeping for their brothers, particularly Joe's sister Anna. 

Swift Otter seems to be booming! They have a shiny new website. They have 7 people working and are looking to expand.  If you're interested, you can google Swift Otter to see the website and learn more about company culture and if the job is right for you. (Just remember it's fundie owned.)

[Temperance]

Also there's a youtube channel for Joseph Maxwell's business. 

Edited January 31, 2020 by Temperance

[galaxychaser]

Jill Rod should have hung this sign in the bathroom:

if it’s yellow let it mellow if it’s brown flush it down

[awaken]

9 hours ago, galaxychaser said:

X rated lol 

shhh don’t tell Timmy Rodrigues

Yes, we don’t want ponography!  

[Churchhoney]

Uh-oh. The Duggardom/Vuolo gang gon' be pissed. Roundup article listing "Christian influencers" includes Carlin Bates (and Tim Tebow) while skipping them completely. 

https://slate.com/human-interest/2020/01/the-jet-setting-jesus-quoting-christian-influencers-of-instagram-from-sadie-robertson-huff-to-caroline-franklin.html

Carlin Bates Stewart

Age: 21
Followers: 253,000
Instagram bio: I’m a nobody, trying to tell everybody, about somebody, who will save anybody.
Actual bio: One of 19 children in the sprawling Bates family, who star in the wholesome Duggar-esque reality show Bringing Up Bates, soon to enter its 9th season. Her Insta-savvy siblings include Josie Balka (168,000 followers) and Alyssa Webster (287,000), and she runs the Bates Sisters Boutique (140,000) with sister Erin Paine (345,000) and sister-in-law Whitney Bates (281,000).
Typical post: “He’s been my friend, my strong arm, my laughter, my help, and my hero! Thank you, Evan, for walking through this pregnancy with me hand in hand, arm in arm! Xo”

 

Edited February 1, 2020 by Churchhoney

[Tasya]

I think that's a very strange article. Why randomly select a Bates girl while mentioning them as "Duggar-esque" and not select a Duggar? Clearly whomever wrote that knows all about the Duggars and chose to omit them. Plus I think every single Duggar girl that is on SM has more followers than any of the Bates girls. 

[DangerousMinds]

And how is Carlin a “jet setter?”

[Churchhoney]

1 hour ago, Tasya said:

I think that's a very strange article. Why randomly select a Bates girl while mentioning them as "Duggar-esque" and not select a Duggar? Clearly whomever wrote that knows all about the Duggars and chose to omit them. Plus I think every single Duggar girl that is on SM has more followers than any of the Bates girls. 

I don't think that's the reasoning.

The woman who wrote the article covers religion as her primary (and pretty much her only) beat. It's clear she was including only people who portray themselves as primarily Christian influencers, specifically. So she chose people whose bio/blurbs focus on that and/or who have a fair number of posts about aspects of faith.....and, maybe, whose stuff is a hair better written or more interesting or amusing than any runners-up. 

The Duggar/Vuolo social media posts/bios don't talk all that much about religion, and their writing is pretty meh. I'm sure they were in the mix to be chosen but those things meant they just didn't make the cut. Ruth Graham's trying to write an article that will hold the attention of people who likely don't even know who most of these folks are, not write an homage to them based on who's the most famous. 

Note that Carlin is the Bates who got picked, and, as the article notes, she's got fewer followers than some of her sisters/sisters-in-law, so number of followers wasn't one of the criteria. But her bio blurb focuses on faith and is a quote that's quite clever and thus attention-getting, especially to people like most Slate readers who are unlikely to know much about Christian or Gospel music and may never have heard it before. 

 

Edited February 1, 2020 by Churchhoney

[Churchhoney]

1 hour ago, DangerousMinds said:

And how is Carlin a “jet setter?”

She's a Duggar-private-plane-setter. 😁

Seriously, I expect Graham wanted to include the group of Christian influencers who have become tv-famous but aren't sports stars or the children of wealthy preachers because it is a prominent group. 

So the headline includes most of the people in the article but doesn't necessarily encompass all of them, notably that tv-famous group. ...

Journalists are very seldom allowed to write their own headlines or even have any input into them, An editor writes it with an eye to gathering eyeballs with what people will find striking about the article -- "jet-setting super-Christians" is it. 

The only purpose of the headline is to get people to keep reading. And thus it's the most important line in your article -- but not because it's the truest!

 

Edited February 1, 2020 by Churchhoney

[GeeGolly]

Texting frenzy among Jessa, JB and Jeremy happening right now? Jessa's saying, but those religious posts of Spurge a while back and I only wear dresses. Jeremy's saying, I'm in a religious Master's program and JB is saying, I'm the father of 19 kids.

Be prepared for new bios and an onslaught of Bible verses.

 

[DangerousMinds]

9 minutes ago, Churchhoney said:

She's a Duggar-private-plane-setter. 😁

 

 

I mean, honestly, she’s really such a simple hillbilly (like the rest of them!)

[Churchhoney]

Just now, DangerousMinds said:

I mean, honestly, she’s really such a simple hillbilly (like the rest of them!)

Yep. They'd fit right in with the cast of Hee-Haw back in the day....Well, except for the talent part, I guess. 

[GeeGolly]

Jessa is feeling like Jan Brady now.

[Albanyguy]

1 minute ago, GeeGolly said:

Jessa is feeling like Jan Brady now.

"Carlin, Carlin, Carlin!"

[BitterApple]

Scrolling through the article, I noticed all the influencers have several things in common: they're all attractive, polished, skilled at staging and on-trend in terms of fashion and hair. Even glowed-up Jinger looks dowdy by comparison. Jill, Jessa and Jana don't stand a chance. 

[Misslindsey]

55 minutes ago, BitterApple said:

Scrolling through the article, I noticed all the influencers have several things in common: they're all attractive, polished, skilled at staging and on-trend in terms of fashion and hair. Even glowed-up Jinger looks dowdy by comparison. Jill, Jessa and Jana don't stand a chance. 

I agree. I think the Bates girls (including Whitney) all look so much more polished and put together than any of the Duggar daughters. Their social media looks the same way. Like you said, even Jinger at her best looks dowdy compared to the influencers they mentioned in the article. IMO, the influencers mentioned in the article are able to make their staged posts look less try hard than JinJer. Maybe because JinJer (especially Jeremy) are so thirsty for fame. Then again, they are the breakout stars of the show.😉

[lianau]

5 hours ago, Tasya said:

I think that's a very strange article. Why randomly select a Bates girl while mentioning them as "Duggar-esque" and not select a Duggar? Clearly whomever wrote that knows all about the Duggars and chose to omit them. Plus I think every single Duggar girl that is on SM has more followers than any of the Bates girls. 

The Duggars come with public baggage even random people know about .

[OpieTaylor]

I follow Carlin on Instagram and I don’t see much that’s Christian-related. It’s mostly her and husband in their car, going out for coffee or occasional dinners - all excited about their date. Carlin strikes poses, flutters her eyes and rearranges her hair. I agree with the others who think it’s because she’s exceptionally attractive and she had a big fancy wedding that got some magazine coverage. 

[OpieTaylor]

Lawson Bates would have been the best choice of that family for the article, IMHO

[galaxychaser]

Lawson is so dreamy *flutters eyelashes*

[OpieTaylor]

14 minutes ago, galaxychaser said:

Lawson is so dreamy *flutters eyelashes*

He does quote the Bible and ask for help for others who need it.
He definitely went through a period of trying to be an Instagram model but seems to have dropped that pursuit for awhile now.

[GeeGolly]

And just like that Carlin the Christian Influencer Queen gave birth to her daughter.

Came back to add, the birth date is fairly close to premarital sex speculation, although she was induced early.

Edited February 1, 2020 by GeeGolly

[Sew Sumi]

https://www.usmagazine.com/celebrity-moms/pictures/carlin-bates-gives-birth-to-1st-child-with-evan-stewart/

[galaxygirl76]

I feel defrauded by all that shoulder. 

[galaxychaser]

What a tiny peanut ❤️❤️❤️. Bates’s sure make pretty girls. And they marry cute guys too. No Shreks so far.

Sadly Layla is a girl and the oldest so sister mom it is. 

[lianau]

We got our first inside into JilRod's new boy's bedroom . Apparently once you graduate from the babycage you end up in bunk bed prison . All the boys are teenagers

 

 

[Sew Sumi]

I am not impressed by the looks of the Bates girls' husbands, save for Chad (before he started aging in dog years).

[galaxychaser]

Why is there a dresser in front of a bed?

That looks like a toddler bed. 
 

Too much furniture for a tiny room.

[Sew Sumi]

More is more as far as Jill is concerned.

[galaxygirl76]

How many boys are going to be stashed in there? I hope just three because that's all the beds I see. My singleton has a bigger room than that for herself and the occasional cat that comes to hang out with her. 

[galaxychaser]

3 at home and 3 beds

2 desks and 1 30 year old tv 

No computer 

[Sew Sumi]

Yes, they're down to 3 boys with Timbits on his own.

[galaxychaser]

I read it as Timpits 

[galaxychaser]

Evan is 44 according to people.com

 

https://people.com/parents/carlin-bates-welcomes-first-child-with-husband-evan-stewart/

[Absolom]

I think that's a typo.  He's 24, I believe.

[Westiepeach]

11 minutes ago, galaxychaser said:

Evan is 44 according to people.com

 

https://people.com/parents/carlin-bates-welcomes-first-child-with-husband-evan-stewart/

I think that’s a typo. I looked him up (yes, apparently I have no life) and he’s 24.

Edited February 2, 2020 by Westiepeach

[Sew Sumi]

I think @galaxychaser knew it was a typo. That's what made it so funny. 😁

[sondraK]

If the wall heaters work,they shouldn't be blocking them with furniture

[Sew Sumi]

Who needs heat, anyway? 😢

[lianau]

Jill and Shrek definitely need heating . Nurie maybe too ,   the rest of the Not Nuries is free to find a blanket somewhere .

[Zella]

44 minutes ago, galaxychaser said:

I read it as Timpits 

I call him Timba in my mind, but I love Sew's Timbits nickname for him too. Lolol

[BitterApple]

The Rod boys room is cluttered with too much crap, but I have to begrudgingly give Jill credit for trying to create a nice aesthetic. The Duggar boys didn't even have sheets on their beds.

[Heathen]

3 hours ago, Sew Sumi said:

https://www.usmagazine.com/celebrity-moms/pictures/carlin-bates-gives-birth-to-1st-child-with-evan-stewart/

1. No way Carlin actually said any of the quotes attributed to her. She's like the rest of the Bates (and Duggar) offspring and can barely string two words together. 

2. Her insistence on smiling with her mouth open makes her look like an idiot. 

3. The Bateses are just Duggars in more aesthetic packaging, which is probably why they annoy me even more than the Duggars do. 

[galaxychaser]

2 hours ago, Sew Sumi said:

I think @galaxychaser knew it was a typo. That's what made it so funny. 😁

Yes. I know he isn’t 44.

[doodlebug]

On 1/28/2020 at 10:59 AM, Fostersmom said:

 

I grew up in Mentor too! How odd, maybe we know each other!

 

I grew up in Mentor three!  Or at least lived there from age 15 till I went off to college.  I smiled when I saw those buildings, I know right where they are, too.  My dad worked in Willoughby not too far from there.

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1. No way Carlin actually said any of the quotes attributed to her. She's like the rest of the Bates (and Duggar) offspring and can barely string two words together

The entire interview sounded like fundie Mad Libs.  Childbirth is 'magically wonderful'.  And Lucky Charms are magically delicious!  The baby has 'consumed our thoughts and intentions'.  What the he** does that even mean?  The kid isn't even 24 hours old, they are still in the hospital, but Carlin is already 'incredibly busy'.  With what, pray tell?  It's like they took a bunch of meaningless phrases, tossed them in a blender and out came a word salad of nothing.

Am I an awful person to suggest that the reason that Carlin makes that big open-mouthed smile is to make sure the dimple in her cheek is as obvious as possible?  To me, she always looks like maybe she has a sinus condition and has to breath through her mouth.  

Edited February 2, 2020 by doodlebug