Grandma Bev’s, Jr.

My sibs and I are experiencing a time in our lives where we’re all living within about 20 miles of each other, and that hasn’t happened since about 1999, when we were all living under one roof.  My brother is living with my sister right now before he gets married in July and buys his [...]

A Christmas story (or two)

In honor of it being a whole month after December 25th, I would like to share a post about our Christmas celebrations with you!  I just know that you woke up today worried about your lack of knowledge pertaining to our Christmas and I’m here to set your mind at ease.  It’s what friends are [...]

Art show tomorrow night

My sister Emily is having another art show tomorrow night at Ephemera!

If you thought I was excited about her first show, you’d be right, but that excitement pales in comparison to the excitement I have *now* for tomorrow night.

I think the reason I’m so excited is because I know how awesome the [...]

I’m busting

My heart is overflowing!  I’m getting a sister-in-law!  My brother Jacob asked his longtime girlfriend Morgan to marry him last weekend.  She said yes.

I love Morgan dearly.  Jacob is ok, too.  Really and truly, I could not pick a better-suited, lovely woman to join our family.  Emily and I feel like we won [...]

Badlands

I’m back to writing about the weekend vacation that happened over a month ago.  Little happens in my life, ok?

One thing we did this time we were in South Dakota that we didn’t do last time we were there, was visit the Badlands.

We drove a really long time to get there, but when [...]

Running

I am running in the IMT Des Moines Half Marathon in a few weeks.  My running partner Shanlyn and I have been training since June.  We were following our training plan to a T.  Were being the operative word.  The plan we were/are following was the one from the IMT marathon website.  We found through [...]

Mount Rushmore

Yes, I’m still blogging about our Labor Day trip to South Dakota, why do you ask?

(Oh, brother.)

I still have some pictures I’d like to share, that’s why. 

This picture was taken right as we were entering the park.  You’ll have to take my word for it.  It was a brilliant day: [...]

How to camp

I have more I want to share about our recent trip to South Dakota’s beautiful Black Hills region.

We stayed at the same place we stayed two years ago.  It’s called Mystery Mountain Resort.  I don’t know about you, but when I hear the word resort I think of a tropical getaway, an all-inclusive luxury [...]

Josh

Happy birthday, my man.

It’s intimidating to sit down intending to write about you and how much I value you.  I nearly stop before I even begin.  Nearly.  Aren’t you glad?  My point is – there is so much to say, so much of it already said, and still more that will bear repeating [...]

Getting there is half the fun

“Getting there is half the fun.” – An Idiot

Our family – extended family – took a really fun trip to the Black Hills over Labor Day weekend.  But, I would venture a guess that significantly more than 50% of our fun occurred once we were there.

It’s tricky though, travelling with 3 cars and [...]