Christmas 2024

Christmas 2024

A full year in review It’s been an active year for us with our growing faith, family, and friends! By God’s grace, our health remains strong, and we’ve been able to spend quality time throughout the year hosting, visiting, vacationing, and sharing...
August 2024 canoe trip

August 2024 canoe trip

For three wonderful days we traveled with our daughter Johanna and her 3 younger kids and new puppy Tilly from Rochester up into the Adirondack Mountains past the chain lakes and north of Raquette Lake to a little-known relatively undeveloped body of water known as...
Canoe trip 8/23

Canoe trip 8/23

Forked Lake Revisited One of our family’s favorite vacation camping destinations over the years has been going canoe camping in the Adirondacks. We like to plan, reserve one or two remote campsites, drive up, canoe out to the edges of “the...
Christmas 2021

Christmas 2021

2021 has been a challenging but fruitful year of change! As the world around us continues to rock and spin, sometimes seemingly out of rational control, we’ve been holding together as individuals and as a family as best we can. Let’s leave the chaos of COVID and...
Christmas 2020

Christmas 2020

What an unusual year this has been for all of us! For so many it’s been a real challenge with real losses among family and friends, economic issues, social distancing in our scattered extended and church families, and the tensions of politics, isolation, and social...