Not Enough Nelsons

NOT ENOUGH NELSONS FAMILY

We are a big family of 18! We always get asked if they are all ours!!? 7 are biological and 9 are adopted! SO YES!!

I discovered this family in my all things adoption group, so I went looking. Someone elsewhere wrote a thread – “Not Enough Nelsons: When Mormon Naming Goes Too Far.” They said – I’ve only recently discovered them (blogger’s note – for me, only today) and their videos are really hard to watch (blogger’s note – I think I’ll just not do it). The Nelsons have 16 kids (blogger’s note – so 18 includes the parents). I also read that the oldest 5 are legally adults.

That person commented on all of the terrible Mormon names. The girls have random capitalizations and their names end in EE. KennaDee 23, KassaDee 21, Bridger 21, JourNee 21, Trey 19, JaineLee 17, LiLee 14, SaiDee 12, NayVee 12, Luke 11, PaisLee 8, DeLayNee 8, PresLee 7, ElleCee 6, Beckham 5, and Ledger 9 months. Bridger, JourNee, LiLee, SaiDee, NayVee, Luke, DeLayNee, ElleCee, and Backham are adopted. KassaDee is married but for some reason a bunch of the kids followed her on her honeymoon? They live in a giant mansion in Utah (read the cafemom link below for more about that) but for some reason they need YouTube money / fame. Someone else described their videos as very cringey and staged.

Googling around for more info, I found this at cafemom – LINK>How a Family of 18 Went From ‘Dirt Poor’ to Living in a Mansion. Bruce Edward Nelson II (the dad) is a builder and a coach. He used to coach a soccer team. He is also the Bishop of a Latter Day Saints church in Utah. In addition to coaching, Nelson runs his own business, building homes and developing properties.

One commenter in the adoption group wrote – Everything about their website feels like commerce. It’s all magazine glossy and perfectly coordinated tones. Like, in one image they’re on a velvet couch, in the middle of a skate park. Bizarroworld. That’s not a family, It’s a brand.