
Family & Marriage


A Letter From My Dad
First of all, thank you to all those who came to the visitation yesterday! To hear people talk about how much they admired my dad, his wisdom, godliness, and so much more, made me so proud and humbled to call him “dad”. He is someone who truly left a legacy – may this be a…

Happy 10th Birthday, Sweet Mazy Grace!
A whole decade of loving you, sweet Mazy Grace! Yesterday our pastor was talking about a passage in James and one little part of it was about anointing with oil. I can’t help but think back to 2014, at Unity CRC in Prinsburg, Minnesota, when our friends Bryan and Perry, and Pastor Steve, circled around…

Life As Of Late…
It’s been a LONG time since I’ve done a “life” update, so I thought I would share what we have been up to! I started off the new year with a bang by starting to work at school again and also helped coach our school’s 8th grade basketball team. I had reached ONE YEAR post…

Merry Christmas!
Merry Christmas! The day that we celebrate all year, really, is finally here on the calendar. But may we never lose sight the fact that HE is the only way to salvation. No worldly thing that captures our attention or hearts, will ever satisfy. May the truth of THIS Truth, reign and reflect in our…

From Surviving to Thriving In Marriage
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…