Raising Arrows

So every year we keep a "memories" jar... and through out the year we fill it with our favorite events, happenings, words, or moments. We then open it up and read through them on Jan. 1st with sparkling juice and breakfast. It's a fun and simple tradition that we look forward to sharing with our kids through the years. So I have had 2014 and 2015 "memories" on my laptop, saved, and ready to blog but just never have done it. (thank you, no internet) So i thought now would be a prime time to finally spill the beans and get them saved on the blog! Along with some fun photos from those years. {disclaimer :: they are in no real order or sequence. sorry!} 2014 Oct. 9 th – Eye appts for Milo & Norma : Norma good, no problems. Milo, we're told, will have surgery soon... praying and a bit scared August 5 th – Reenie starts back to work with momma :) a very cute distraction As of June, Theo “says” :: tractor, light, dog, bubbles, bath, mom,...

Since it's been so long and everyone has grown so much, I want to update on how and where each kid is at. Along with a few fun family updates. It'll probably be a longer post, but what the hey! It should be done. So lets begin with the main frame... Mom and Dad, Tim and Dani,  lovebirds that started this beautiful mess. We are in our 7th year of marriage and looking forward to celebrating our 8th this summer! Whoa, where did time go?! Overall not much has changed with us. Tim got new glasses and keeps a pretty respected beard now a days and I still deal with the dilemma of long or short hair... it changes frequently. Tim has been working for the Gospel Mission now for a little over a year, and has a nice office. I am pretty much a full time stay at home, homeschooling, soccer mom. I still second shoot weddings with the awesome Melissa Gregersen on the weekends, but last fall stopped my weekly fun at the studios so I could home school and be with the kiddos. It was a hard cha...

Well, looks like I have a lot to catch up on. Including but not limited to adding two kids, moving twice, and some awesome lessons God's been teaching our family. It would take me a very long time to detail out all of these and in the next few weeks I hope to give a more accurate account about where we are and how our lives have changed. For now I'll say just the short of it all.... -We moved back to MI in March 2014 -Miss Norma Irene was born June 2014 -We began helping with Citygate (or Uchurch as we began) shortly after moving back -Milo began kindergarten this past fall (2015), and we decided to homeschool - we LOVE it! -We moved to Portage Feb. 2016 (which is why we finally are able to have REAL internet again and I can begin blogging again! woot) -And we are expecting a sweet, new baby boy this summer!! Obviously there's SO much more to all of this. But it's so hard to know what to elaborate on and what to let go ... so that's the small steps to ...