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Stats: ~ Height: 35 inches (85th%) ~ Weight: 24.8 lbs (24th%) ~ Doctor said she could stand to gain a bit of weight (dropped from 57th to 24th%), but like she said, it’s hard at her age because she is on the go, non-stop. So, we just have to give her high “good” fat, high protein,…
I’m going to be straight forward and say that people don’t talk about marriage enough. How marriage takes work. How marriage is hard. How marriage is effected by life circumstances. When Dan and I look back on our marriage, it sometimes feels like we haven’t had much of a reprieve from medical struggles. It can…
(Boy, were we young, yikes!) I will never forget a walk I took with my older sister before I was about to get married. I had asked her for some marriage advice. Typically when you think of marriage advice, you think of the typical couples that pray together, stay together advice. I am NOT saying…
As many of you know, there is a woman that I have a friendship with that goes beyond human terms. To describe the relationship I have with Brenda Vriezema, well, it is indescribable. This is the very woman who felt the call of God on her life, to carry our children, when I was not…
Welcome SPRING! Don’t you just love the promise of changing seasons? God sure teaches us so much through them, doesn’t He? When you think a season of life will never end, it ALWAYS does. And as our seasons of life change, we can see God’s faithfulness woven throughout our story! Here’s what our week has…
The snow is MELTING in Minnesota! I would say this week the snow has gone down incredibly. I would say there is definitely more grass/dirt that is visible than snow, which has been fun to see. So we thought that this area was REALLY flat – well, after the snow has melted, we’ve realized really…