• We Have a Car!

    I posted this picture the Labor Day weekend last year, this car represents God’s amazing grace and love. To get the full picture, we have to start way back in June. Myke was in a car accident. He’s fine, but the car was done. I don’t want to go into the entire detail of the story because that would be about 5 blog posts. Long story short, we got the run around from the insurance…

  • June through December

    We had some great times in the second half of 2016, but there were some challenges as well. Here are some highlights from June through December 2016. June  My birthday month was a lot of fun. I witnessed one of my dearest friends get married and I also went to a worship conference with our church and loved every second of it. July This month Myke and I checked something off both of our bucket…

  • 2017

    2017 is going to be a good year, I can feel it. The last half of the year had some ups and downs, but I’m not going to let that bring me down about 2017. Even though things were a little quiet around here, there were so many times that I wanted to write. I wanted to just write an amazing blog post that is inspiring and uplifting like my mother in law. I wasted…

  • Banana Bread (+ recipe)

    My mom does a lot of baking around the holidays. My all time favorite thing my mom makes is banana bread. I think it’s the smell of banana and when it’s combined with coffee or tea-it’s a delightful snack in the middle of the day or even a quick breakfast. What you will need: 2-3 very ripe bananas, peeled 1/3 cup melted butter 3/4 cup sugar 1 egg 1 teaspoon vanilla 1 teaspoon baking soda pinch of…

  • Myke’s Favorite Chocolate Chip Cookies

    I’ve been looking to build my recipe book, looking for good recipes to always have on hand. Myke is a big fan of cookies and one night he wanted chocolate chip cookies and I was hoping to find a good classic recipe to have. I turned to Pinterest and found this one and it is a huge hit! Myke has requested it a couple time since and what makes it even better is the recipe…