With and For

Today we celebrate two fun things – my birthday and our friend Rita’s wedding. Woke up this morning to breakfast in bed and a treasure hunt! It was a lot more challenging than I thought but it led to a great surprise gift of concert tickets. One of the best parts of the day however [...]

Working the corn roast once again, Theresa is scheduling those who roast, shuck, dip in butter and hand out thousands of cobs of sweet corn each day. One of Tom’s best friends since kindergarten, James moved to Minneapolis about a month ago and this seemed like as good of an idea as any to “be [...]

This past weekend we went with our friends Sam, Alicia, Eric & Jaime to Interstate Park in St. Croix, WI to camp and enjoy the quiet of the outdoors. It was incredibly relaxing and fun to catch up and hang out with some friends. Luckily Sam had a box of camp gear so we weren’t [...]

We’re moving somewhere in the world… into the realm of station wagons. We’re justifying it by the fact that it seems kind of sporty but let’s be honest – we got it for the safety features for our incubating child. So for those of you who know Theresa you know this is a switch from [...]

To say it has been a while is true. The last several months of our lives have provided lots of stories that cannot be categorized and retold here but here’s our effort to give a summary of our beautiful and life changing summer in San Francisco.   We were again doing a summer in a [...]

A friend of ours recently returned from 7 months in the U.K. and spent the last several weeks of his time there asking this question. I don’t necessarily have an answer but I can tell you this is a question I have been asking myself quite a bit lately. As many of you know Theresa [...]

  In the middle of so many lives. Speaking so many words. Seeing so many loved ones in our midst. Feeling somewhat overwhelmed that it was actually happening. All of me and all of him. In the many moments where I saw only Tom, it was more beautiful than I could have ever imagined. Not [...]

With just a week left we are so joyful for the wonderful celebration this weekend! This time has gone by fast but has also been a gracious time of learning, loving, and laughing. We have partnered in a lot of the planning which has been great, but it couldn’t have happened without the help of so many people [...]

“The beginning of love is to let those we love be perfectly themselves and not to twist them to fit our own image. Otherwise we love only the reflection of ourselves we find in them” Thomas Merton Of the many lessons I learn from Tom (author, yes. But, meaning, my fiance) this is one the [...]