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Summer is HERE! We are so grateful to get to this point in the year after what the beginning of the year brought. We were looking very forward to spending time together as a family this summer and we are already making many memories! We started off summer with a family vacation at a cottage…
I’m just going to start right off with this picture of a rainbox. This was taken at my in-laws house on Monday night, the day before I had some testing down at the U of M. I can’t say that day went completely as planned as we found out I was having a significant amount…
If you follow me via email, you’ve noticed I’ve been trying to do “Monday Morning Memos”, and thought I would just add them here to share what’s been going on in our life! It’s been a busy and AMAZING summer thus far! In Michigan, our summers are short, with this year feeling especially short due…
Christmas cards. Some people love them, some people sigh at the thought of sending them out. Ironically, one of the biggest tasks of Christmas, besides buying gifts, can be making/designing/creating/buying/sending out your Christmas cards. Why do you send out a Christmas card? Do you send them out just because you feel like you “have” to?…
What are we looking forward to these days? VACATION! I will be taking a little blogging break for a week and a half or so because we are going to be prepping for vacation and also enjoying family time together while on vacation. We are SO excited. It is a family tradition that we are…
Sometimes I wonder why certain things happen in life. Why we become passionate about something, to only be derailed and forced to go a different direction. That is the walk of faith. I look back at my “career” in basketball and sometimes I feel it was cut short because of my heart condition. At the…