Outdoor Lights

This is the outdoor light decorating crew. Jim got out the sparkly stuff and the extension cords and then Lauren/Gloria/Natalie/Jamie set...

Thanksgiving

This year for Thanksgiving, we traveled over to Wisconsin to my brother's house. He and Judy made an amazing meal and the girls had fun...

Grandma Kate's Memorial

These are some of the flowers from Kate's memorial service at our old church, Vision of Glory. It was truly wonderful to see her family...

Homeschool Candle Class

The last of three classes we signed up for this semester, through Three Rivers Park District, was homeschool candle making at Elm Creek Par...

Nick U

We were very excited that we got some free tickets again for Nickelodeon Universe. We ended up with 11 rides for the kids and 3 rides for m...

Kip the Bunny

Katie really, really wanted something warm and loveable but I would not agree to a puppy. I did say a nice used bunny would be OK. So we en...

Science Museum

With some of our Christmas money, we got an annual membership to the Science Museum of Minnesota today. Some of the highlights included ...

Ikea Lunch

Yep, just about any excuse will do for heading over to IKEA on a Tuesday for free lunch. We are still in the process of decorating/setting ...

Women's Retreat

I spent the weekend at Clearwater Forest Retreat Center with some of the other women from The Mills Church. I was part of the planning comm...

Lego House

Natalie has been especially interested in building an elaborate house with Legos this week. She said it was a great break from Minecraft. I...

Starting Gymnastics

I was so excited to bring Natalie and Gloria to their first gymnastics lessons today. They were the only two students in their class and go...

Poor Roxy

Roxy is not much for dressing up. Whenever we put something on her (like this scarf and t-shirt scrap from a sewing project), she gets even...

Homeschool Friends

We have been getting together to play a couple times per month with 3 other homeschooling families from The Mills Church. The kids have...

The Underground

This year, I am small group leader in The Underground - the middle school youth group at The Mills Church. We play LOTS of games (well, the...

And Snow it Begins

The snow started pretty early this year, but everyone seemed very excited to welcome it. There had already been lots of talk about how the ...

Kids Computer Room Finally Done

The transformation of this room from my home office into the computer room has taken quite a long time as we have not worked at it very cons...

More Time for Service

We got two opportunities to use our time to serve others this week. First, we made a small batch of pop-up greeting cards for Cards for Hosp...

Unexpected Results

Yesterday, we went to a homeschool open house/open gym at Legacy Gymnastics. Natalie and Gloria will be starting recreational lessons there ...

Slight Room Makeover

It is my firm belief that God understands both our needs and our wants even better than we do. We have been wanting a solution for our worn ...

Fall Walk

Today seemed like it could likely be one of the last mild days of the season so we took a short walk on the path around Purgatory Park. Glor...