Recently Daniel and I decided to set aside the first Saturday of each month to go on an outing with our family and dubbed it “Adventure Weekend” to give our children something to look forward to each month. To start things off right, we …
What do little girls want for their birthday? When asked, Elanor declared that it must have “balloons, cake and pink”. Pink what? Pink everything…and a little bit of princess to go with it. So Mommy started planning early this time around so she wouldn’t be up until midnight the night …
My art professor in college always said that bigger is better. She would look at our tiny canvases and tell us they were too small and give us examples of abstract expressionists like Robert Motherwell …
Every week we have several children who stop by our house asking for food, water or plastic to recycle. In an effort to learn their names and pray for them more often, I decided to take a photo of each one and write down their names and ages. I am …
Every Holy Week in the Philippines there is much ritual and attention to the life of Christ. Unfortunately most of this attention is in the area of his suffering and the penance that …
Last month we took a trip to Bohol with Mom and Dad and The Brattons. We had a great time. Here are some pictures from the trip. It’s a beautiful place and one worth putting …
Ian turned 4 this year and we had such a blast at his party!
It was all about dinosaurs and all about Ian. We searched for fossils, cracked open dinosaur eggs, ate dinosaurs, played …
A couple of weeks ago on one of our trips to the supermarket, Isaiah and I had a discussion of possible party themes for his upcoming birthday. I suggested the usual…pirates, jungle safari, space adventure; and then Isaiah informed me that none of those would do, he wanted a …
Earlier this week I made a whirlwind trip to Singapore. Even though it was only for a few days, any trip to Singapore is wonderful! Ervz and I were contracted by International Community School (ICS), the only Christian school in Singapore, to come and take photographs for all …
Melissa and I have been a part of a young professional outreach ministry at our church over the last year called Soldout. An unfortunate trend for young people in the Philippines is to drop out of church …
