Gold Rush is an annual antique show and market located in Oronoco, Minnesota. Hundreds of dealers from throughout the country converge and fill the small town with their booths. When our children were young, Kirk and I made Gold Rush a date day. When the kids became young adults they joined us now and then. This year … Read More
Cottage Guests
You guys! Guess who stayed at The Cottage! Our newly hired church pastor and his family! I’ll let you read how it all came to be on his wife’s website, Miss Mustard Seed Somewhere around 10 years ago I started following Marian on her Miss Mustard Seed blog. Over the years she has inspired me … Read More
Home Away From Home
Our home away from home in Austin, TX was an Airbnb. A comfortable two bedroom, one bathroom home with laundry facilities and a cute little patio. Sliding doors lead out from the kitchen/dining area to the patio. The sun shined gloriously on this patio from 10:00 am – 3:30 pm. We entered the duplex/apartment through … Read More
Austin Adventure 2017
Let me tell y’all, five weeks in the Lone Star State goes by fast! (yep, I said y’all) We’ve talked about this trip for years — getting away from the cold, the snow, the cloudy days. Finding warmth – and sunshine. Kirk getting to work along side his Austin teammates, some that he hadn’t seen … Read More
Thankful
As I looked back through the photos we took in Cincinnati during the two weeks we were there visiting our kids and their babies in early October, one word kept coming to my mind. Thankful. Cara and Tim are always so welcoming and always open to our visits. The level of comfortable is second to … Read More
Playing
This morning was a typical Facetime call. Sydney was eating breakfast. Life cereal for her. Coffee and Greek yogurt for me. She was very excited to share that she was “dry” this morning. We celebrated with high fives and hooray’s over the internet. Breakfast finished, Sydney “took me” to the living room. She wanted to … Read More
And now there are four
We arrived in Cincy in time (Wednesday, September 23) to give a very expectant momma and daddy a little relief before baby #2 arrived, help where needed, and go to the park with a soon to be big sister! Before baby arrived, we got in a few trips to the park and some wagon rides, … Read More
May Days – Engagment Photos
It’s May … and we are in wedding prep mode! Danae and Mike chose a beautiful day for their engagement photo shoot and Midwest Life Shots took some amazing photos of this couple capturing their personality and love for each other photos on the roof? Sure. No big deal. Love that they did the photo shoot … Read More
End of the week
As the end of our week in Cincinnati neared it was time for Kirk to have his stitches removed, so nurse Cara did the honors. Our snuggles continued… Smiles happened. Maybe it was because Little One was happy to wear a Bobcat’s shirt — which made her daddy happy. On our last night in Cincinnati … Read More
Late night snuggles
These two. In love with their fresh from Heaven little girl. Melted my heart watching the two of them with their baby girl. Time with Papa complete with dried milk on the face! Tonight was the first of several late night snuggles with Nana after everyone else went to bed. Just Sydney, Jimmy Fallon and … Read More