One of our goals for 2017 was to have active date nights. Given that it is the winter, that means we needed to find something indoors. We di...

We celebrated our 14th anniversary with a trip to the town of Leavenworth, WA. It is a Bavarian themed town in the Cascades, and the week we...

It doesn't snow much here, so when it does, we get out and play in it! Our favorite place to go sledding is on the hill on Colvin Lane. ...

It doesn't take much snow to cancel things here in Oregon, so we ended up having church cancelled this weekend. The kids weren't loo...

A snowy Sunday today meant church was cancelled, so we were at home the entire day. The kids decided they would like to hold "Jensen Ch...

The kitchen took a little longer than planned to get the final doors on, but it is all finished now and we are thrilled! We refaced t...

In Jared's first week at Precoa, back in August of 2009, Chris Giovarelli put "Aunt Viv" on Jared's desk with the story th...

2016 quotes Claire: "You're funny. You're not hilarious. Hilarious is an overstatement." - Claire's response to Ja...

This year, we celebrated New Years with the Jensen and the Smiths and all the kids. To celebrate, we watched the ball drop - in the East Coa...