Author: ernie

Branden and I have this tradition for the boys.  It started the first Christmas we had them both.  Silas had just turned two, and Ethan was only 9 months old.  We were young (and tired!) and didn’t really have money to get the boys presents, so we made them something.  Branden built them these small hand puppets and I crocheted them little toys – a robot for Silas (who he named Zombie!)…

The Double Gap.  An occasion worth documenting!  A reminder to me that time itself will both bring and take many things in this life.  And yet, time itself is what I should treasure. I feel like Ethan has grown at least a couple inches since we arrived in Ireland!  He lost the first front tooth just a couple days after we moved. He’d been wiggling them for months.  The second one came…

Magical things are happening at our house 🙂 I love Christmas time!  I’m not great at decorating (actually I’m finding just how little I know about it with this new house and all it’s blank spaces!) but I do love the Christmas tree!  A few years ago, maybe four now, I decided to make all of our tree decorations.  About halfway into this endeavor I realized I was way in…

So Thanksgiving was a little different this year 🙂  This was our first major holiday away from family and we were in a country that doesn’t really celebrate it!  We are getting ready to kick off some big things for children’s ministry here at Calvary Cork, so we had a Thanksgiving/Servant Appreciation/share what’s up ahead dinner!  We are honestly so so thankful for those serving in the children’s ministry here.  The need…

Hey Everyone, so the blog is being kind of weird and not letting me upload any pictures :/  I’m getting it figured out (hopefully), but for now, I’ll try to post them on Facebook with the update links. So this last week was really good.  After more than a month of moving and transitioning and a lot of big things to get settled (not that we’re completely settled yet 🙂…