Abel’s birthday is almost here! My life has changed more in the last year than in any other time in my life (except for maybe moving out and getting married). I went from building our filmmaking business on the side, to getting pregnant unexpectedly and having a baby, to deciding to quit my job and […]

Wow, how is Abel already a month old?! I feel like we just got home with him, but then when I think about his actual birth, it seems like a million years ago already! A lot of life has happened since then! We’re still adjusting to our new life, and it’s been both so hard […]

About this time last year, I wrote a blog series talking about my and Brandon’s journey through infertility and pregnancy loss. It was the first time we publicly shared about all of our experiences, and writing it all out was very therapeutic for me. Brandon has even told me since then that he didn’t realize […]

Last week, we shared our third blog post in our infertility series about our daughter, Elizabeth. First of all, I just want to thank everyone who has been following along in our blogs recently. Your support really means a lot to us! We have gotten so much encouragement and positive feedback from them, so thank […]

For the last two weeks we have been sharing about our pregnancy journeys, what our experiences were, and how they changed our lives. Today I will be sharing about our third and most recent loss, which happened two years ago, October 23, 2016. So if you missed the first two blogs, you can read about […]

Last week I shared a blog about our first pregnancy and early miscarriage (you can read that story here). This week we want to share about our second pregnancy, which was ectopic. This story is more complicated in a lot of ways, but I want to try and be as transparent as possible. After losing […]

This month will mark two years since we lost our daughter Elizabeth. A lot of people are familiar with her story because we shared it publicly as it happened, but less people know the details of our previous losses. We have had three completely different pregnancy experiences. Our first was an early miscarriage, the second […]

Our wedding day feels simultaneously both so far away and just like yesterday. I can’t believe it’s already been five years! The wait to get married felt like an eternity, and now, five years have zoomed by, and I’m teasing Brandon about how he’s almost 30 and starting to gray! Every year, for our anniversary, […]

Well, we finally did it. We got a pet. Actually, we got two pets. Brandon and I have been married for over four and a half years, and we haven’t had so much as a fish to keep alive! It’s not that we never wanted pets, we just never really had a good opportunity until […]

It was 2008, I was 17 years old, and I was about to leave the country for the first time in my life. I was so excited to be going on my first mission trip! I went with my drama team, CrossWave, and that trip changed my perspective on the world. It also did something else that I wasn’t expecting. It was on that trip that Brandon and I started falling in love with each other.