Friends
Don’t ya just love when you re-connect with an old friend and it was just like you were never a part? This past year I got re-connected with a dear friend I used to work with. She and her husband and Kip and I would do lots together. However when we started our families and I quit working we just drifted apart for no apparent reason [...]
Oh What Fun…..
While we check-in we lap up everything that we can; in hindsight maybe more than we should have – tee hee! As we savored warm, home made sticky buns we signed up for a volleyball tournament, horse shoe tournament and a caricature portrait to start. What we didn’t know when we signed up was that they would all be starting about [...]
Family Camp – AWE-some!!!
There are so many Titles that I could have picked for this blog, I do not know if I could possibly describe the weekend we experienced this past Labor Day.
Our family weekend was full of fun, laughter, extending ourselves spiritually and physically, making new friends and building upon old friendships. It is truly amazing how much fun we pac [...]
Doing What I Love
It is such a bonus to be able to get creative when you have a purpose.
Recently, I was asked by Gillian’ s ballet teacher, who is opening up a brand new studio to make the signs for the rooms. Thanks to a sweet friend who suggested me, I think I know who you are!
Anyway, it took me a few weeks to really get a vision of what I wanted to [...]
Berkfest in Bed, please?
Some sweet little girl in our house had a very specific, special request. In fact she organized the whole thing, down to the bow tie, daddy would wear.
The request: Breakfast in bed Sunday morning before church.
Sweet as can be, how could a daddy resist this honor? Flattered by the request Kip accepts this task. Gillian, however is not qui [...]
A Day on the Railroad as a Family
“Ladies and gentlemen, I have some good news and some bad news. The bad news is that both engines have failed, and we will be stuck here for some time. The good news is that you decided to take the train and not fly.”
This of course was not a worry for my Gillian, however running out of fuel was her big concern. Especially when t [...]
Grateful
Before
After wishing for new windows for so long, we finally got phase 1 installed today. I am so happy with them. We got the picture window, perimeter grid style and I absolutely feel blessed. I hope that with just this phase we will see a huge difference in utilities.
During
After
A Musical Arrangement by Hayden Russe...
It is no secret that my son is very savvy when it comes to all things electronic. It amazes me how you can give him some gadget or software and he can figure it out with in 2 hours. That is one reason why we love Apple products, they have so many great programs and are very intuitive.
Hayden has been really getting into film making with Fin [...]
Sweet Gift
Although his true passion is cinematography, my sweet Hayden still loves photography. It is a passion we could talk for hours about.
We browse many photography websites and love window shopping for camera’s and lenses. So much fun!
A few weeks ago he asked Gillian if she would be his subject for a photo shoot. I was so thrilled with the [...]
