Happy New Year to all our family and friends! We hope this post finds you happy & healthy. We are very thankful for another wonderful year spent together, filled with a healthy balance of working, traveling, and time with family. I’m tempted to say this year felt a little uneventful for us personally, but I…
As is tradition for this time of year, I’ve been reflecting lately on 2023, and how certain events of years past have led up to who we are now. Recently I recalled how in high school (and probably college), Curtis used to wear a shirt that read, “Why be normal?” It was kind of a…
It’s hard to believe that this is the 10th Year in Review post I’ve written, that we’re already in our 10th year of marriage and have just celebrated our 10th Christmas as a married couple. On one hand, it feels like that time flew by, or that we can’t possibly be old enough to be…
This month, I’m celebrating two big milestones: my 30th birthday on the 27th and 10 years of blogging on this website. In honor of that, I want to write a post to celebrate, and to commemorate my favorite decade of my life so far. I don’t think it’s necessary to go over all the details…
When reflecting on 2021, the most obvious thing that stands out to us is how much time we spent traveling. Each month is remembered by where we were going; time was measured by how many hours we spent in the car; it was the year we counted counties and not days. And besides that, it…