There is an incredible amount of awareness and education surrounding adult heart disease, but very little about the number one birth de...

I love social media. Having lived across the world from family and friends for five years made it an important part of our lives to stay con...

This past Sunday at church our youth worship leader sang the song "The Lord Our God". For some reason t his song has really been l...

We often tell our children things like "don't let fear stop you from going after something you want" and  "just go for i...

When you are in the middle of diaper changes and midnight feedings it is hard to even imagine a time when your child would no longer be at h...

For those who are frequent readers of my blog (although considering I have not blogged lately I am not sure how many readers I still have) ...

Yes I know I have been silent for the past 8 months. Our family has been slowly working through repatriating back to the United States and c...

Growing up we didn't have things like Xbox and PS3. Minecraft didn't exist. MTV actually played music videos. Computers, if you were...

One thing we discovered over the past five years is the importance of learning languages. In today's competitive and transient world, on...

Okay so Dallas isn't so much deep into Texas, but it is the only song I could think of at 6 am with Texas in the lyrics without strainin...

It is 2:06 am on my last night in Japan. In the morning I will go to the ward office and deregister, cancel my cell phone, have one last bow...

Dad saves the day! I have spent the past month back in Japan with Emily. No, she didn't miss her mommy so much that I had to rush over...

A few weeks ago I saw an advertisement for a "Motherless" Mother's Day brunch. This was a time for  any woman whose mother had...

I have to admit one of the huge perks to raising children in a country like Japan was safety. Kids walk alone or with friends down the stree...

Yesterday Allison would have been 11-years-old. Someone asked me if after 11 years, this day was any easier. I had to think about that a mom...