This Week In Pictures






















How often do you travel? Do you find yourself pulling out your suitcases often, filling them with all of your belongings, so that you CAN survive for a week? Or is packing your least favorite part of going on a trip because you know you are bound to forget something? My husband and I really…
We are turning up the heat here in West Michigan. Or I should say the air conditioning! Fun and sun have arrived and we are trying to embrace it to the fullest. Even though we don’t have a cottage, we decided to make our home feel like a cottage – as my husband would say,…
Words are powerful. Of course you recognize the old saying… Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me. Really, that could not be more untrue. Sticks and stones hurt – for a short time. But those wounds usually heal. Words though – that hurt can last a lifetime. Words can…
I find myself feeling a bit nostalgic at times. I think about the days when my sister and I would play Shannon Miller and Dominique Moceanu in the backyard, pretending to be the next Olympians. I think about the days when I spent my time lining up each and every one of my crayons just…
With a new year beginning, I can’t help but think about the things I want to change in my life. How can I live life to the fullest? How can I serve God and others to the fullest? How can I love my husband, and daughter to the fullest? Questions that I have asked myself…
It absolutely amazes me that it has been 16 years since we said our “I do’s”! This day, 16 years ago, looked MUCH different in many ways. We had just graduated college two weeks prior, Dan moved into our new home we bought a few months prior, I brought what I could so that I…