Family Blog

Our sweet, strong, and thoughtful Israel turned five years old today! Happy birthday buddy! Although the current state with Coronavirus has changed our plans, we are counting our blessings and trying to make lemonade from lemons… We decorated the house after the boys went to bed last night and they were so excited this morning! […]

Thanks everyone for the recommendations on places to donate my hair after I chopped it off back in December! There were so many great options for donating, but I finally decided on one organization! This is a fun throwback video from a few weeks ago (before coronavirus came to the area) of me and the

While we are grateful for the extra bonding time as a little family during this social distancing thing with the coronavirus looming, we have also found it challenging to get uninterrupted quality time for our marriage relationship. Combine that with spending more of our time at home and stress levels being higher than normal, we

…”and the Lord will be with you.” -2 Chron. 20:17 I’m sure your community feels a lot like ours right now as the tension and uncertainties linger while the coronavirus pandemic continues. Ironically, weeks after we registered Israel for public school, the entire state of Arkansas has now shifted abruptly to forced homeschooling for the

We had a fun weekend celebrating Derick’s 31st birthday. We went swimming with “Mima” (Derick’s mom) and Dan & Deena (his brother and his family), then went to a local park for a picnic. A couple days later (on his actual birthday), we got a sitter and went out for a date to Waffle House,

This week we went and got Israel registered for kindergarten. It’s hard to believe he will be five this year! We have already been homeschooling him some, but decided it would be fun to let him go to kindergarten this year. It’s extra special because it’s the same school district Derick enrolled in over 25

So…I usually get my hair trimmed twice a year and it was getting to be that time of year. I wanted to get a little more cut off than I did last time and wanted to get it done soon because it was getting to be hard to manage, the boys were getting tangled in

We were so excited to finally put up our Christmas decorations for the first time in our new home! Here are some pictures and a video from over the weekend. When do you put up your decor? What are some of your favorite holiday traditions? Comment below!

We had a great time celebrating Thanksgiving with some friends in our new, cozy little home. The boys were so excited and, this week, Israel kept asking us how many days were left until Thanksgiving. Last night he could hardly sleep and then today when he woke up he was so excited to watch the