relishing the life God has given us
Christmas 2020, part 2 | Iowa After spending Christmas 2019 completely alone, the past 5 Christmases far from home, and going through all the challenges 2020 presented, all we wanted was to celebrate the holidays with family. Because of the pandemic we weren’t able to see all of our extended family, but we definitely didn’t take getting to spend time… Read More
Christmas 2020, part 1 | Michigan | Written by Curtis For the Christmas and New Years season we decided to visit both sides of our family and spend time with them for the holidays. We have been essentially quarantined to just ourselves and Charlotte for most of the fall, so we felt that we could safely make the trip with… Read More
On December 31, 2019, Curtis and I watched the last sunset of the year on Haleakala. Making it through 2019 felt like a huge accomplishment. We had survived our last full year attached to an active duty submarine, and would be moving away in just a few months. 2020 was the year we had been anticipating for so long, and… Read More
Prairie Rose State Park | Danish Windmill | December 2020 The first weekend of December brought another sunny day with mild temperatures. To make the most of the nice weather, we planned another weekend adventure featuring a moderate amount of driving, courthouses, hiking, and scenic spots. We drove into Iowa via I-80 and, after a brief stop for a letterbox,… Read More
This year, we broke our longest-standing Thanksgiving tradition of eating Thanksgiving dinner on a submarine. Yes, it only happened 2 years in a row, but we’ve done something completely different every other year so it only took 2 years to make it a tradition! Not only that, but for the first time in 5 years we were close enough to… Read More
Seward, Nebraska | Hiking around Pawnee State Recreation Area | November 2020 On yet another beautiful fall weekend, we drove West for another Saturday adventure. Today’s goal was to check off another courthouse, and go for a longer hike. Perhaps all these weekend adventures are starting to sound repetitive, but they are nonetheless enjoyable to us. We especially like that… Read More