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Protected: 2011 Picture Wrap Up

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Miracles

There are many instances recorded in the Bible – and likely countless others that aren’t recorded – where God performed divine miracles. As someone who believes that the Bible is God’s Word and that it is inherently true, it is awe-inspiring for me to read about these works. However, in today’s “instant gratification” culture, I [...]

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Protected: Happy Halloween

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What if a thousand sleepless nights…

As some of you as friends and family know, our youngest daughter is currently in a stage where she does not sleep well at night. This is a heavy weight on my wife and myself as we help comfort her for what seems like endless hours night after night. This morning in worship this song [...]

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Protected: Picture Catch up: March 2 October

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Shopping Spree

We went on a shopping spree today: 6 mosquito nets to protect from malaria 2 dairy goats 30 fruit trees 1 bicycle for a missionary to get to remote villages to spread God’s Word enough food to feed 5 hungry babies for a week vocational training for 1 person to provide for his/her family 1 [...]

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Rites of Passage

In the past several weeks, Emily has: outgrown almost all her clothes learned to ride her bike without training wheels gotten her first loose tooth (it’s been almost 2 weeks now and it is still hangin’ in there) learned to whistle gone on her first sleepover at a friend’s house How is it possible that [...]

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Liberty and Freedom

We are so blessed to live in this country where we are free to worship our God, vote for our leaders, and speak our opinions. Quite a contrast to many other areas of the world, including Julia’s birth country. We look forward to teaching her about liberty and freedom as she grows. In the meantime, [...]

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Can I Get A Woot! Woot!

Recently, Dan was checking out Woot.com and they were running one of their blind deals. For a fixed amount, you purchase what they affectionately call a Bag of Cr@p and then you receive whatever it is in the mail – it could be as the name suggests, it could be an HDTV. You just never [...]

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Important Milestone

We interrupt this blog – normally devoted to the kids’ escapades with a smattering of scrapbooking posts – to discuss another very important milestone. June 23 marked our 10th wedding anniversary! Ten years ago, we said I Do to forever and were ecstatic to be living in the same timezone, much less moving to Michigan [...]

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