TLC stuffed over 50 hours of video into 44 minutes. We thought they did a marvelous job depicting our family for who we are, but getting all questions answered is an impossible feat. We’ve gotten a boatload of questions through posts on the website and through email. We’re not able to respond to all of…
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Alicia and her parents have come along a great journey of love and reconciliation. You can read about some of it at our January 28, 2007 post, the day we “killed the fatted calf” and had Alicia home. Our conflict with Alicia was a complex one that lasted nearly three years. She went through a…
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We had elk calf last night in celebration of Alicia’s return back to the family (in reference to the story of the Prodigal Son in Luke 15:11-32). Tonight’s TLC episode will bring much of our story (along with all sorts of Jeub events and happenings) of having a prodigal child for three years. The story…
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The Colorado Springs Gazette has published an article on our family and the TLC experience. You can click through and read the article–published this morning–here. It is a great article. Here are some of the good lines from it:

Of the three episodes on the TLC miniseries on large families, Kids by the Dozen, two were given the rating of PG rather than G. The Arndts (the first episode) was rated G. Last night’s episode featuring the Heppner family and next week’s featuring our family are both PG. Why? The reason is because…

I just got off the phone with Spud Heppner. The second of three episodes of Kids by the Dozen has been openly received by the Heppner family. Many of the family got together in a hotel in Fargo, North Dakota, to watch the show. Half way through Spud called me on my cell phone and…
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Tomorrow is a day to remember one of the country’s most significant changes. In 1974, the Supreme Court took state’s rights away and forbid any legislation that would spare the life of an unborn child. The annual March for Life will attempt to be a voice for the unborn tomorrow at the nation’s capitol…

We wish that we would have connected the dots sooner with these shows. These shows are all coming out in January which is Pro-life month. So that is a good thing. Also, The Heppner’s show tackles the issue of Mrs. Heppner being a scared teenage mother who felt very alone. She went on and married…
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