Those two were adopted in April of this year, and seven months later, they added seven to the mix. The Hawthorns told the kids they loved them and that they were fighting for them. All seven siblings got the name Hawthorn at the Saline County Courthouse, even though they had already been writing it on their schoolwork. “I’d been praying to have a family that I can enjoy Christmas with,” Dawson, the oldest sibling, told Fox News. “We still consider them family, too.”And since then they’ve had an ever-expanding family – reaching all around the globe.

Source: Fox News December 19, 2018 17:35 UTC