Jinger Duggar Unearths Why She Hasn't Infamous Christmas With Her Family in 9 Years
Jinger Duggar shared why she and husband Jeremy Vuolo—who dwell in California—haven't returned to have an even time Christmas in Arkansas along with her family in nearly a decade.
Jinger Duggar Vuolo is reckoning on making some magical memories this Christmas.
The 19 Formative years and Counting alum revealed that she and husband Jeremy Vuolo don’t have any longer successfully-known Christmas along with her family since their 2016 marriage ceremony—however that's all altering this twelve months as they reunite along with her folks Jim Bob Duggar and Michelle Duggar in Arkansas.
“We're going to enter the Duggar dwelling to take a look at what Christmas is love,” Jeremy shared on the Dec. 22 episode of their podcast. “But right here's the thing. We’ve no longer been lend a hand to the Duggar dwelling since we've been married in nine years for Christmas.”
As for the residing off of their prolonged absence?
As Jinger—who shares kids Felicity, 7, Evangeline, 5 and Finnegan, 9 months, with Jeremy—suggested him, “The motive we haven't been lend a hand for Christmas Day is because that's the most straightforward time of twelve months that your loved ones is all together. And so throughout the years, we've determined, 'OK, that's going to be the time that we explain with Vuolo family over Christmas.'”
Within the period in-between, they’d behold Jinger's family throughout other predominant milestones.
“They're always together plenty,” she explained. “So, it's easy for us ethical to pop lend a hand. We went lend a hand three instances in one twelve months for weddings. So, you're love, 'Oh, we weren't there for the holidays.' But we had been there for more than one weddings.”
Indeed, though Jinger printed her explosive memoir Becoming Free Indeed in 2023, the 32-twelve months-outdated has remained fervent along with her family. They as of late bought together to wait on a females's convention in Texas, with Jinger posing for a rare photo in October alongside mother Michelle and sisters Jill Duggar Dillard, 34, Jessa Duggar Seewald, 33, Pleasure-Anna Duggar Forsyth, 28, Johannah Duggar, 20, Jennifer Duggar, 18, Jordyn-Grace Duggar, 17, and Josie Duggar, 16.
Peaceable, Jeremy knows that Jinger has missed traveling from their dwelling in California to acknowledge her family for Yuletide.
“You've started to come by staunch nostalgic about Christmas,” he illustrious on the podcast. “So, we're going lend a hand.”
Jinger agreed it's “it's bright” to reunite all as soon as more—and she has yet any other special motivation for returning to acknowledge her 18 siblings.
She added, “I desire our ladies to expertise a Duggar family Christmas. And I miss it.”
Study on for a files to the Duggar family tree.
Michelle & Jim Bob Duggar
The oldsters of 19 and grandparents of over three dozen minute ones started out as excessive college sweethearts.
Michelle has recalled being “saved” at 15. Then, one evening, Jim Bob became making dwelling outreach visits on behalf of his Baptist church and he ended up knocking on the Ruark family's door after his buddy suggested him that “this woman from college that ethical bought saved and is a cheerleader” lived there.
They invited Michelle to Sunday college at their church and, Jim Bob said, he prayed to god that they have a tendency to be every other's spiritual leaders—though it seems their first assembly wasn't as memorable for Michelle. A twelve months later, she applied for a job on the frozen yogurt shop owned by Jim Bob's folks. “You bought right here to the counter the achieve I became standing by the money register and launched yourself,” Michelle remembered in a letter posted on the family weblog in 2017 for Jim Bob's birthday and their 33rd marriage ceremony anniversary. “You had been troubled however very candy! I actually don't be aware considerable about that dialog, other than that you come what would possibly perchance mustered up the braveness to position a interrogate to me if I would shuffle to your junior-senior feast with you!”
She attended the dinner with him at Shiloh Christian, however it became when they frolicked afterward discussing the Bible for hours at her folks' dwelling that she knew.”From there, we imagine our hearts had been knit together,” Michelle has said. “We graduated excessive college in Could perchance perchance perchance of 1984 and had been married in July. I became 17 and Jim Bob became 19.”
40 Years Later…
The couple dedicated themselves to God and each other for the prolonged breeze.
Jim Bob is a frail suppose legislator, having served within the Arkansas Dwelling of Representatives for the sixth district from 1999 till 2002, throughout which he became vice chair of the Dwelling of Corrections and Criminal Law Subcommittee. A breeze for U.S. Senate in 2002 ended within the predominant, as did a inform in 2006 to turn out to be the Republican nominee for Arkansas Converse Senate District 35.
He and Michelle, who’re every licensed realtors, have been energetic in conservative causes—an ingredient of their everyday life that won them and 19 Formative years and Counting (which premiered in 2008 as 17 Formative years and Counting) every proud supporters and fierce critics.
As of October 2024, they had been grandparents of 33 with three on the vogue.
Josh Duggar (m. Anna Keller)
Eldest Duggar minute one Josh Duggar became born March 3, 1988. He too became a conservative activist, campaigning for the Family Research Council.
He stepped down after outdated police records surfaced in 2015 revealing that he had been accused of molesting several ladies, in conjunction with his sisters Jessa Duggar and Jill Duggar, when he became a teenager. Jessa defended her brother in a sit-down with Fox Files that June, insisting that the worst names folks had been calling Josh had been “so overboard and a lie, actually. I mean folks come by mad at me for announcing that, however I’m succesful of claim this because I became among the victims.”
His wife Anna Duggar—whom he married in a Sept. 26, 2008, ceremony featured on 19 Formative years and Counting—additionally stuck by him, in conjunction with after he admitted to being unfaithful.
When he checked true into a remedy heart in 2016, his folks known as it “a vital first step in recuperating and healing.”
Oldsters of three—daughter Mackynzie (Oct. 8, 2009) and sons Michael (June 15, 2011) and Marcus (June 2, 2013)—when the scandal broke, Anna gave beginning to their fourth minute one, Meredith, on July 16, 2015, the identical day TLC canceled 19 Formative years. Their fifth minute one, son Mason Garett, became born Sept. 12, 2017, daughter Maryella Hope arrived Nov. 27, 2019 and toddler No. 7, Madyson Lily, became born Oct. 23, 2021.
In a federal indictment filed in April 2021, Josh became charged with a depend apiece of receipt and possession of minute one pornography. He pleaded no longer responsible on every counts. In 2022, Josh became chanced on responsible of every (however the possession tag became vacated by the assume) and sentenced to 12 and a half of years in jail.
John-David Duggar and Jana Duggar
Rapidly after Josh became born, Michelle bought pregnant all as soon as more, however suffered a miscarriage. Whereas she and Jim Bob had been easy grieving that loss and praying for steerage, they chanced on out that twins had been on the vogue.
“We felt it became a double blessing,” she suggested Love to Know. “God became encouraging our hearts. We're easy studying. It's actually so uncommon, because I breastfeed my infants, however my kids are so shut together. I even have a child after which eight months later I'm watching for. Just appropriate-attempting one other uncommon thing the Lord has seen fit to fabricate with our enviornment.”
John-David Duggar and his twin sister Jana Duggar had been born on Jan. 12, 1990.
John-David Duggar (m. Abbie-Grace Burnett)
After a whirlwind courtship (they did know of every other for several years, sooner than assembly at a church tournament in Abbie's dwelling suppose of Oklahoma) and a transient engagement, John-David and Abbie-Grace Burnett bought married on Nov. 3, 2018.
They welcomed daughter Grace Annette Duggar on Jan. 7, 2020 and son Charlie Duggar in September 2022.
On their thirtieth birthday in January 2020, Jana wrote in a candy message, “Ever since John and I had been minute we've been asked if we have that 'twin thing'. , the thing the achieve that you’ll be feeling what the other one is feeling or know what the other one is taking into account…Effectively, John, I've always answered that with a no—however now I’m succesful of truthfully inform that the day minute Gracie became born I felt every bit of happiness that you perchance did, so I assume it must always be staunch!”
Jana endured, “It's so candy looking at you & Abbie as folks! You're naturals! And the identical qualities that have made you an even attempting brother will additionally function you an unprecedented dad.”
At a joint toddler bathe with pregnant Jana in November 2025, Abbie and John-David learned their third toddler on the vogue is a girl.
Jana Duggar (m. Stephen Wissmann)
Jana watched 11 of her 18 brothers and sisters come by married sooner than she chanced on cherish with Stephen Wissmann—whose sister Hannah Wissmann is married to the TLC alum's brother Jeremiah—however no topic some admitted frustrations, she maintained it became all phase of God's conception.
“I haven't always understood what the larger portray is, however I know that God knows what’s simplest for all of us. And so for me, it's getting married later,” Jana suggested Folk outdated to her Aug. 15, 2024, marriage ceremony. “Each of our tales will doubtless be written in any other case. If we had been your total loyal identical, it’d be a lifeless lifestyles.”
Just appropriate-attempting over a twelve months later, the couple shared that they're watching for his or her first toddler.
Jill Duggar (m. Derick Dillard)
Jill (Duggar) Dillard became born on Could perchance perchance perchance 17, 1991. In a cherish tale paying homage to her folks', Jill first met Derick (who grew up about 45 minutes away) on Christmas 2011 when he stopped by the Duggar family dwelling whereas out caroling along with his church group.
Jim Bob played matchmaker, and Jill and Derick come by on smartly, rising closer over electronic mail and Skype. Father and daughter went to search the recommendation of with Derick in Nepal that November and Jill and Derick endured to fall for every other. In February 2014, Derick asked Jim Bob for his daughter's hand in marriage, and in articulate that they tied the knot on June 21, 2014. They’re folks to three sons—Israel, born on April 6, 2015, Samuel, born July 8, 2017, and Frederick, born July 7, 2022.
In April 2024, Jill shared that she had suffered a pregnancy loss whereas watching for her and Derick's first toddler woman.
Jill and Derick mirrored on the controversies and spiritual beliefs surrounding her family within the Amazon Top Video documentary Like a flash-witted Overjoyed Folk: Duggar Family Secrets, which premiered in June 2023.
Jessa Duggar (m. Ben Seewald)
Jim Bob and Michelle's fifth minute one, Jessa Duggar, became born Nov. 4, 1992.
Jessa met Ben by church and he started dating her in 2013—the susceptible attain to romance coming as a tag-new idea to a whole lot of viewers. The kids never talked about their romances pre-engagement, so Jim Bob explained to Folk, “Relationship is getting to know every other in a group surroundings, every families spending time together and the couple surroundings desires together to search out out if they’re supposed to marry. With relationship, a couple will typically pair off by myself and that every so continuously leads to a more bodily relationship.”
Ben asked for Jessa's hand after which proposed in August 2014—sealing the deal by preserving her hand for the first time. They married on Nov. 1, 2014. Jessa became pregnant with their first minute one when 19 Formative years and Counting became canceled and TLC therefore aired a special about sexual abuse, that contains Jill and Jessa, to extra educate viewers on the topic. The sisters would hand over up the celebrities of their very hold show mask, Jill and Jessa: Counting On, that winter; the show mask then evolved to turn out to be Counting On, that contains other Duggar siblings as successfully.
Within the period in-between, Jessa and Ben welcomed son Spurgeon on Nov. 5, 2015, son Henry on Feb. 6, 2017, daughter Ivy Jane on Could perchance perchance perchance 28, 2019 and daughter Fern in July 2021. In February 2023, Jessa shared that she suffered a miscarriage over the 2022 vacation season. She gave beginning to son George in December 2023.
In August 2025, Jessa launched the beginning of son Edward.
Jinger Duggar (m. Jeremy Vuolo)
The sixth Duggar minute one, Jinger Vuolo, became born Dec. 21, 1993.
Jinger and Jeremy met doing ministry work in Laredo, Texas, and started dating in 2016. They married on Nov. 5, 2016 (the bride's nephew Spurgeon's birthday—however you ethical strive no longer overlapping milestones whenever you're one of 19), and had been promptly the topic of pregnancy rumors.
“The achieve we behold ourselves in a twelve months would possibly perchance perchance be ethical settled down, easy doing ministry right here in Laredo, and ethical in search of to lend a hand the Lord, on the other hand, we will,” Jinger said on a June 2017 episode of Counting On.
Their daughter Felicity became born July 19, 2018. In Could perchance perchance perchance of that twelve months, they revealed that Jinger became pregnant all as soon as more—and that she had suffered a miscarriage the outdated fall. In November 2020, they welcomed daughter Evangeline Jo.
Son Finnegan Charles became born March 29, 2025.
Joseph Duggar (m. Kendra Caldwell)
No. 7 Joseph Duggar became born on Jan. 20, 1995. Taking perfect thing about the romantic surroundings, Joseph proposed to Kendra (whom he met by church) at his sister Pleasure-Anna's marriage ceremony in Could perchance perchance perchance 2017 after ethical about a months of dating.
“I became positively apprehensive going into it, however I wasn't panicked that she became going to claim no, because she has said, 'I'm ethical waiting on you!'” Joseph suggested Folk after popping the interrogate. Added Kendra, “I'm so happy and so vexed. There's so many phrases I desire to claim, however ethical vexed.”
They've since launched the births of son Garrett, born June 2018, daughter Addison, born November 2019, daughter Brooklyn, born February 2021.
Josiah Duggar (m. Lauren Swanson)
Eighth in line, Josiah Duggar became born on Aug. 28, 1996.
Just appropriate-attempting about a months after his courtship with Lauren went public, the couple launched their engagement in March 2018. “The achieve the achieve I proposed to Lauren is the loyal location the achieve her folks had been engaged,” he said in a assertion. “There's plenty of family historic previous on this property making it a special achieve for Lauren.”
Her future mother-in-laws, Michelle, said in a video posted on the family's weblog, “We love Lauren, she is such a treasured woman.” Jessa and Ben additionally supplied congratulations, and chocolate fashioned love x's and o's. “Moderately obvious that y'all desire to build your first kiss to your marriage ceremony day, however when you come over right here we'll come up with…” She held up the candy comfort prize.
A outdated courtship with Marjorie Jackson didn't determine and in articulate that they went their separate ways within the summertime of 2015. “Marjorie and I had a stunning time together,” Josiah recalled to Folk in March 2016. “We had been ethical looking to prepare God's lead on all the things. She didn't feel that it became the coolest timing then, so we known as it quits for reasonably.”
He and Lauren tied the knot June 30, 2018, telling Folk their marriage ceremony day became “fully most animated.” They welcomed daughter Bella Milagro on Nov. 8, 2019—the title translating to “miracle toddler,” after the couple revealed Lauren had suffered a miscarriage in October 2018. They welcomed one other daughter, Daisy, in 2022, and a son named Ezra in Could perchance perchance perchance 2023.
Pleasure-Anna Duggar (m. Austin Forsyth)
Ninth sibling Pleasure-Anna Duggar became born Oct. 28, 1997.
She knew Austin Forsyth for 15 years as a pal sooner than he started dating her—after which they didn't raze any time. He proposed in February 2017 and in articulate that they married on Could perchance perchance perchance 26, 2017, at Unpleasant Church in Rogers, Ark. (the marriage ceremony the achieve Joseph proposed to Kendra!).
Pleasure & Austin Forsyth
Pleasure-Anna and Austin welcomed son Gideon Martin Forsyth on Feb. 23, 2018, daughter Evelyn Mae Forsyth on Aug. 21, 2020, and son Gunner James Forsyth on Could perchance perchance perchance 17, 2023.
Jedidiah Duggar and Jeremiah Duggar
Jim Bob and Michelle's 2d residing of twins, Jed Duggar and Jeremiah Duggar, had been born on Dec. 30, 1998.
Jedidiah Duggar (m. Katey Nakatsu)
Jed married Katey Nakatsu after one twelve months of dating in April 2021. They’re folks to son Truett, born Could perchance perchance perchance 2022, and daughter Nora Kate, born June 2023.
Jed and Katey launched in July 2024 that they’d twin ladies on the vogue, and daughters Elsie Kate and Emma Kate had been born Jan. 8, 2025.
Jeremiah Duggar (m. Hannah Wissmann)
Jeremiah, a licensed flight trainer, is married to Hannah Wissmann (Jana's husband Stephen's sister) and the 2 are folks to daughter Brynley, born December 2022, and Brielle, born February 2024.
They launched the appearance of their third daughter, Emery 'Emy' Jane Duggar, on Could perchance perchance perchance 18, 2025.
Jason Duggar (m. Maddie Grace)
No. 12 Jason Duggar became born on April 21, 2000.
In January 2017, the Day-to-day Mail reported that Jim Bob helped Jase aquire a $33,000 fixer-upper in Prairie Grove, Ark., about half-hour away from the Duggar family location dwelling, and he ended up beginning his hold constructing firm.
He went Instagram legit with lady friend Maddie Grace in Could perchance perchance perchance 2024 and the 2 married the following October.
James Duggar
Charmed No. 13, James Duggar became born July 7, 2001.
Now not publicly dating a doable necessary other yet, he's a doting uncle to dozens of nieces and nephews.
“He is the 'funcle' (relaxing uncle!) and your total youthful boys spherical right here take a look at as much as him and desire to be ethical love him!” mother Michelle wrote on his Nineteenth birthday in 2019. “James is in a position to fabricate ethical about the leisure he thinks up. Whilst rather one, we would gain James 'fixing' a whole lot of household appliances. He has always been one to rob things apart, resolve out how they work, and achieve them lend a hand together—with about a special adjustments!
“This twelve months James labored laborious to come by his CDL, and he has turn out to be an expert at driving your total enormous autos and heavy machinery! We are succesful of't wait to acknowledge what God has in store for him within the raze!”
Justin Duggar (m. Claire Spivey)
No. 14 Justin Duggar arrived on Nov. 15, 2002.
He went public with lady friend Claire Spivey in September 2020. The 2 bought engaged the following November and married on Feb. 26, 2021.
Jackson Duggar
Here along with his enormous sister Jill, Jim Bob and Michelle's 15th minute one Jackson Duggar became born Could perchance perchance perchance 23, 2004.
On his 16th birthday, mother Michelle praised Jackson's sense of humor and illustrious that she knew he couldn't wait to come by his driver's license.
Johannah Duggar
Johannah Duggar became born Oct. 11, 2005, therefore the fresh family special known as 16 Formative years and Challenging In.
“This woman is so relaxing and outgoing, and she loves making new chums,” Michelle wrote on her 16th minute one's 15th birthday in 2020. “Her youthful sisters fully fancy her and mediate she hung the moon, and I couldn't be more grateful to God for picking me to be her Mother!”
Jennifer Duggar
Jennifer Duggar arrived on Aug. 2, 2007, then the toddler of the family.
Their TLC show mask that premiered Sept. 29, 2008, became christened 17 Formative years and Counting.
Now, OMG, she's a teenager.
“Jennifer is true, loyal… and relaxing!” Michelle wrote when her minute woman became 13. “She is a licensed with the nieces and nephews and is mostly carrying one of them spherical because they don't desire her to position them down! Jennifer additionally has a special cherish for animals and is terribly faithful to dwelling her pets on each day foundation! She as of late helped boost a litter of seven minute bunnies!”
Jordyn-Grace Duggar
Here on the coolest, the penultimate Duggar minute one became born Dec. 18, 2008.
In 2019, her mother known as Jordyn-Grace an “outgoing woman who has never met a stranger,” with a snigger that “is always among the brightest spots in our day.”
Josie Duggar
No. 19 Josie Duggar, right here preserving niece Meredith, became born on Dec. 10, 2009—three months premature and weighing simplest 1 pound, 6 oz, and spent six months within the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU).
“Josie is a ball of vitality,” Michelle wrote on her toddler's 11th birthday in 2020. “From the time she wakes up within the morning till her head hits the pillow at evening, she no longer continuously slows down!”
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