Claire got accepted to the University of Northern Iowa, where she plans to attend after graduation. Again- this is craziness. But she knows what she wants to do and has gotten everything in place to get it done! We continued enjoying warm weather, and my parents arrived to help with fall work! We went to Read More
September
Hello again.
It’s a new year, I got a new computer that actually uploads my pictures, and it’s finally time to get this blog back on track. We’ll have to recap everything that’s happened in the past 5 months first though. This seems like forever ago. Claire started the day bright and early at the senior sunrise Read More
Summertime Family & Friends
In August, we had lots of fun visits from family and friends. First, my brother and sister-in-law came from NJ. There was lots of swimming, slip n sliding, ninja-ing, driving of all the things, jet skiing, and some pretty epic tubing. Poor Elijah was probably traumatized after this….but it’s one of my favorite pictures of Read More
Claire’s 17th Birthday
Claire loves Forrest Frank, and Forrest Frank just so happened to be at the Iowa State Fair on her 17th birthday. Seemed like the perfect surprise birthday present to me! She thought we were just going to have a nice, chill day at home doing all of her favorite things: swimming/reading/grilling/eating outside/boating/wakeboarding/tubing. Instead, she opened Read More
J*U*L*Y
People had warned me that life would get much busier the older my kids got. I still wasn’t prepared. With that being said, we were just kinda busy doing/enjoying life…and I wasn’t very good about carving out time for everything. My poor blog once again fell by the way side, but I miss it and Read More
Ocean City {Week 2}
Week 2 started with some pool time with cousins after church, followed by the usual: We also snuck in a day trip to Washington DC. We started with the Holocaust Museum, made our way to the Washington Monument, headed over to the Lincoln Memorial, waved at Donald and Melania, and stopped in at the Smithsonian Read More
Ocean City {Week 1}
Denver Youth Conference
The day after visiting the Ark, we headed to North Carolina to attend a youth Bible conference and see family and friends. But first, a stop at the greatest gas station to ever grace our planet. The first part of Saturday and Sunday were spent at the Bible conference, and the rest of the day Read More
