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We are Derick & Jill (Duggar) Dillard. You may know us from our time on the TLC reality series, 19 Kids and Counting and Counting On, or from our New York Times bestselling book, Counting The Cost. We love raising our three active boys and spending time together as a family.
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Jill
Jill Duggar Dillard grew up in Northwest Arkansas as the fourth-born of nineteen kids in the Duggar family. When Jill was around thirteen years old her family was part of a handful of documentaries on Discovery Health Channel that showcased their lives as a large, fundamental Christian homeschooling family. As the family and popular interest grew, their lives were aired for nearly two decades on her parent’s hit reality TV show on TLC with the various titles over the years, namely, 19 Kids and Counting, and Jill & Jessa: Counting On.
Jill and Derick were first introduced by her dad, while Derick was living and working in Nepal on a two-year mission. In 2013, with camera crew in tow, Jill and her dad flew over to Nepal to meet Derick in person and that’s when they officially started dating. After Derick’s assignment was finished, he returned home to Northwest Arkansas and the two were engaged 3 months later and married 3 months after that. Jill was the first Duggar daughter to get married, with over 4.4 million people tuning in to watch the two-hour wedding special on TLC. One month later, the two found out they were expecting their first child together. And in 2015, Derick and Jill moved to Central America with their 3 month old where they served as missionaries for nearly two years. They moved back to the states permanently just in time to have their second child. Around this same time, and through some revealing and agonizing events, Derick and Jill subsequently left the TV show in order to do what was best for their family and pursue their own goals.
In 2023, Jill, along with her husband, authored her second New York Times Bestseller, Counting The Cost. In their book, they told the behind-the-scenes story of secrets, manipulation, intimidation and the hope they found through time, tears, therapy and the strength that only God can give.
Jill is married to her best friend, Derick and they live in Northwest Arkansas. She is a Christ-follower, part-time social media influencer, aspiring gardener, foodie, coffee lover, trained midwife, informal mental health advocate and full-time mama to three energetic boys earth-side, Israel, Samuel, and Frederick, + 2 angel babies (River Bliss, 2021, & Isla Marie, 2024).
Derick
Derick was born and raised in Rogers, Arkansas. He earned the rank of Eagle Scout as a teenager and graduated from Rogers High School in 2007. Derick went on to Oklahoma State University, where he earned a Bachelors of Science in Business Administration degree with a major in Accounting and minor in Economics in 2011. While at OSU, Derick was active in Beta Alpha Psi and Kappa Kappa Psi. Derick also served as the OSU mascot, Pistol Pete, representing the university at hundreds of athletic and non-athletic events during his upperclassmen years.
Derick then moved to Kathmandu, Nepal from 2012 to 2014, where he served as a Christian missionary to Tibetan refugees in eastern Nepal.
Derick met Jill while he was in Nepal and the two were married shortly after he returned to the states in 2014.
Between Nepal and Arkansas Law School, Derick worked in tax audit at the Walmart corporate home office and served as a missionary with his wife in Central America.
Derick Dillard is a prosecuting attorney for the state of Oklahoma, where he has worked in juvenile, criminal and civil practice. With the recent release of their book, Counting the Cost, along with his wife Jill, Derick is a New York Times bestselling author.
Derick and his wife Jill live in Northwest Arkansas. They have three sons, Israel, Samuel, and Frederick and two miscarried babies in heaven. In his free time, Derick likes running, spending time in nature with his wife and boys on family bike rides and walks, hanging out around the fire pit sipping coffee, taste testing his wife’s cooking, participating in his boys swim lessons and watching Oklahoma State and Arkansas football games.
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🧺 laundry, new microwave, Fall walks & God’s grace.
Btw, I posted some of my favorite Bibles options with direct links to my stories & my LTK shop highlights bubble ⬆️
🧺“But he said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” Therefore I will boast all the more gladly of my weaknesses, so that the power of Christ may rest upon me.” (2 Corinthians 12:9 ESV)
☀️Fall baking with friends, good free finds, football, & family time.
What a night at the annual @wrapprojectinc Ruby gala! ❤️Great people doing great work! #wrapproject
@wrapprojectinc is a nonprofit organization that connects communities with recovery services, treatment, MAT, GED testing, Youth Services, PRSS’s, Life Skills, DV Resources, and Mental Health help
• wrapproject.org
👼🏼Today we remember River Bliss Dillard (10/3/21)…our true “middle child.”
💙Our family includes more than our 3 little boys running along with us.
💙💙💜💙🩷I’ve talked a lot about our baby girl (Isla Marie) who we lost in the second trimester last year (likely due to subchorionic hemorrhage since all other tests came back fine)…but we had another loss, our third pregnancy. And it’s hard to believe it’s already been 4 years ago now.
🥀On that Fall day, October 3rd, 2021, we had only known I was pregnant for about a week & a half, but we were already so elated! Joy turned to heartbreak for us as I started spotting and subsequently found out we lost our baby. We didn’t know the gender yet, but we soon settled on a name that seemed perfect for our heavenly baby…River Bliss Dillard.
River “Tranquil”
Bliss “Perfect Happiness”
The verses from the Bible that spoke to me as we grieved our loss and thought of our baby and the hope we have of someday meeting in heaven were Revelation 22:1-5:
“Then the angel showed me the river of the water of life, bright as crystal, flowing from the throne of God and of the Lamb…No longer will there be anything accursed, but the throne of God and of the Lamb will be in it, and his servants will worship him. They will see his face, and his name will be on their foreheads. And night will be no more. They will need no light of lamp or sun, for the Lord God will be their light, and they will reign forever and ever.”
Revelation 22:1, 3-5 ESV
October is #pregnancylossawarenessmonth
Did you know that 1 in 4 pregnancies end in loss?
💔So many families suffer in silence and are pressured to fit the mold that their baby’s life only holds value based on the number of days that they carried their baby inside or outside of the womb.
Let’s change that. Every loss hurts. Yes, every loss is different in its own way. And everyone processes grief differently and will be affected differently. That’s ok. Let’s support each other and families experiencing this tragedy as they the process their loss and remember their heavenly babies that they never got to raise.
#1in4pregnanciesendinloss
#riverblissdillard #islamariedillard
🌸“Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom there is no variation or shadow due to change.” (James 1:17 ESV)
🪴My garden lesson this year: it doesn’t have to be perfect to be beautiful. 🌻
#dillardfamilyadventures #garden #familytime #cucamelons
💁🏼♀️Redo my braids with me!
My extension braids are from: @dreadfullhippie & I love them! (Not sponsored) #dreads #braids #haircare #boho
🚫💧#dillardfamilyadventures
Update: PTL our water is back on now after being off for hours today! So grateful!
💐homegrown flowers will always brighten the day! ☀️
#garden #dillardfamilyadventures #freshflowers
