Monthly Archives: January 2017

We had some pretty exciting mail this week! We’ve been sponsoring a child in Sri Lanka through World Vision for over a year, and we hadn’t received any communication from her. The average time to receive any mail from a child is three months, so we were surprised but tried to be patient. We sendContinue reading “Postcard from Wishmika!”

It’s our fifth anniversary of traveling to Naches, Washington for a weekend in the snow with our #roomiereunion buddies. We love spending time with the five other families we’ve known since college. This year we had 12 adults and 17 children (with two still baking in their mama ovens). We arrived at dinnertime on SaturdayContinue reading “Bethel Ridge Weekend 2017”

I kicked off 2017 with all sorts of fun. I took my niece Madi on a “day with Aunt Becky” before she went back to college. We worked out, went shopping, had lunch (and dessert!), and saw a movie. Then I went to a local MIE Expert event. It’s my Microsoft teacher group who connectsContinue reading “All Sorts of Fun”

We have really enjoyed the lull between Christmas and New Year’s, when there isn’t much going on and we can all be home together. One of the fun things we did one rainy day was make bread for Grandpa and Grandma Cole, which was JT’s idea. Actually, I wrote that incorrectly. The kids made bread.Continue reading “Happy New Year”