His heart beats His blood begins to flow Waking up what was dead A moment ago And His heart beats Now everything has changed Because the blood that brought us peace with God is racing through his veins ~His Heart Beats by Andrew Peterson (click the picture to hear the song) This! This is why… Read More He Is Risen Indeed
The kids had been counting down the days, and Brynn kept announcing that she was going to wear her “ballerina dress” (aka swimsuit) for spring break. Great Wolf Lodge was a huge success! I didn’t realize that there were Great Wolf Lodges all around the country until my cousin blogged about her trip to one… Read More Great Wolf Lodge
I think I like it. 35. There’s something happy about embracing the very stage you find yourself currently living. I have a fear of missing out, but in a backwards nostalgic sense. My fear is that by moving forward to the next life phase, I’d miss out on something in the previous stage. All the… Read More Turning 35
Our third recent adventure trip was to the Wheatland Ferry north of Salem. Stephen had been wanting to take the kids on a river ferry for a while, and there are still a couple in operation nearby. We found an adorable lunch spot in McMinnville, and visited the local bookstore and grocery before our ferry… Read More Wheatland Ferry on the Willamette
Presidents’ Day weekend we were itching for another Saturday trip, but couldn’t figure out what to do that was within budget and that fit the forecasted rainy weather. Finally we settled on riding the train into downtown Portland to explore our city for a few hours. The kids love riding the MAX, and we were… Read More PDX by MAX
One of our favorite pastimes is to take family day trips to see a little bit more of the Pacific NW. Back in January we explored the Peter Iredale shipwreck along Oregon’s coast at Fort Stevens State Park. The steel hull of the ship was rusted and covered in barnacles, but you could still make… Read More A Shipwreck & Fort Stevens
Since I like to blog about things after they are completely accomplished, I was waiting for the very last details of our house siding project to be complete before writing about it. And here we are, months later, with only the painting of drainpipe fasteners standing between me and writing about our siding…so I’m writing!… Read More Homeownership
Over a year ago I picked three words to define and guide my new season of life in Oregon–health, small, and revel. I wrote about my words small and revel in a previous post. While I never did get around to writing about health, let me just say that I’ve been working out weekly in the… Read More Three Words
We began this new year with a new experience. Groupmuse has recently come to Portland. What started on the East Coast as a group of musician friends playing music together at each others’ homes, has now opened up as an invitation to the community to come listen to beautiful music in nearby homes. Here’s the… Read More Connecting Over Music
Toddlers don’t translate well over the phone. While Brynn LOVES to talk on the phone, it’s just hard to get to know her that way. She’s constantly asking, “I talk Grandma?” and would walk around all day with the phone to her ear if I let her. She ends up babbling incoherently and then popping… Read More A Little Bit o’ Brynn
