Mazy Grace

Around The Home

As the weeks move on by, we are realizing quickly that our time in Minnesota is coming to an end and our new life in Michigan will be beginning. Both book ends, in the opposite way. The closing of one chapter, but the opening of another. I feel I have my emotions back under control,…

When You Can’t Let Go

When You Can’t Let Go

I am sure you’ve been there. The day you put away that last piece of newborn clothing, may have felt like you were laying to rest the best days of your life. The time you had to send your sweet child off to school on the bus, felt like you were saying goodbye forever. Then…

Around The Home

Around The Home

What a way to start a new week, by celebrating Easter! Like I said earlier, it is an emotional day, just thinking about how much our God truly loves us, by sending His Son to die for us, but then choosing to give us new life by raising Him from the dead – ETERNAL life….

As If She’s Your Own

As If She’s Your Own

As the saying goes, “It takes a village to raise a child.” Dan and I have often said being in youth ministry, that we treat our youth group kids as our own. We always have. We talk with them, care for them, hug them, and cry with them, as if they were. That whole concept…

Around The Home

Around The Home

Welcome Spring! Warm weather has arrived in Minnesota yet again, and we could not be more thrilled! Minutes after getting out of bed, Mazy asks to go to the sanbock (sandbox) to play. She cannot get enough of the outdoors, which makes me wonder how in the world we get through the winter months in…

Mazy’s 2 Year Milestones

Mazy’s 2 Year Milestones

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,…