I had my first invitation to 'blog' for someone else this week! My friends Jason and Holly Bollinger adopted 2 precious Ukrainian gi...

Lest you be deceived, these products can not be found in Kiev.  But they currently reside in my kitchen.  Thanks to a lovely care package f...

So I turned the big gulp 3-0 just 2 weeks ago!  I decided that I needed to CELEBRATE leaving my 20's behind and entering into this new...

One thing I've gotten pretty good at over the years is saying 'goodbye.'  Even though I perhaps have gotten good at saying the ...

With every orphanage that we go to and return to visit time and time again, I always seem to see that God puts one or two specific girls...

For the third summer in a row, we walked through these gates 3 times a day.  Behind these gates live the 65 children in Kalinenska Orph...

I have much on my mind as a result of our camp in the village last week- and I will make some space here to process that soon....but in the ...

There isn't much rest around here!  We made it safely back to Ukraine and the kids arrived back to their orphanage and then after a coup...

It is so so so hard to believe that this hosting trip is coming to an end and we fly back to Ukraine tomorrow! ( Still dreading the goodbyes...

We have been wrapping up our activities here in Washington with a very full calendar! Last week we had a game night/gospel presentation at o...

We took our 13 little monkeys kiddos to the zoo this week!  The Woodland Park Zoo in Seattle was generous to let all 13 of our kids get int...

Yesterday we took all 13 kids to Richmond Beach on the Puget Sound.  After two straight days of rain, the sun finally decided to make an app...