These girls are the best :).  We all had a great time wedding dress shopping with Maddy!   Em noted that she’s 2 for 2 now as she picked the chosen dress for both Amanda and Maddy!  Next on the dress shopping list is to find bridesmaids’ dresses for the …

How can this sweet daughter of ours possibly be 25 1/2 years old already with a husband, home, and son of her own now??   What a joy it is to be her mom!   Gift #111 – Amanda 

    Today Amanda and Trevan left for CA. Last week Trevan took Amanda to ID to meet a LOT of family at his sister’s wedding.  This week he’s taking her to CA to meet more family! My how time flies!  Wasn’t it just yesterday we brought Amanda home from …

“My coffee is a million times better by the beach.”  – Amanda

Amanda leading worship this weekend.

I can’t tell a lie.  I didn’t actually take this photo today.  It was taken in December and it’s too cute to not include here somewhere!  I’m always surprised shocked when I have camera in hand with settings ready to capture a priceless expression like this….

This is NOT the type of text message you want to receive from one of your kids. Amanda: “So, I got pulled over.” Mom: “what, why, ticket?” I had to wait an HOUR before hearing the answers to my questions. Imagine all of the thoughts running through my mind before …

The other night Nathan came running and crying into where I was sitting. It sounded like he’d really been HURT! So, I gathered him up to see what was wrong. Inbetween sobs, we were able to decipher what he was saying: “I want to go to Amanda’s house.’! We still …

For those who don’t already know this, Tim & I both play on our church’s weekend worship team . It’s a fairly significant time commitment with an evening of practice & dinner during the week, practicing at home after practice (LOL), serving at three services each weekend, showing up early …

On Sunday, Amanda was supposed to go out sky diving very first thing in the a.m. When we arrived, there was another couple just getting ready to go so we watched them gear up, take off, jump out, and land. All the while the owner of the sky diving company …