Bethlehem.
A plain and simple town, named after an everyday item…
is showing some signs that something special happened here…

2010 was quite a year for our little family! Our first full year together as husband and wife had its many challenges, but many more blessings. Our first year with Cedar was full of wonder as we watched him grow and change so quickly from a newborn to a baby and now to a toddler. The Lord’s goodness has been evident throughout the year.

What a privilege to send you a “post card” from my new home in California! This has been the most amazing year of my life. I hope to write several articles to share more of my story, but for now, here is a quick update…

At the beginning of the year a young man who I greatly admired and respected started corresponding with me on and off. By March he decided I was “more or less interesting”…

Dear YLCF Friends, 2010 could be described as a year of “all things new” for us.  New conversation when Ruth Ann (now 3 years old) learned to talk at the beginning of the year (and hasn’t stopped since).  New bedrooms when we finished our remodel up this spring.  A new crop when my farmer husband…

slow mornings and oatmeal around the table. candles flickering and Christmas music playing. evenings with sound, light and life filling every room. full mornings, just us, he and I, sitting in the coffee shop, fingers entwined and heart-conversation that lasted for hours. all of us, tramping through snow and cutting down an evergreen to decorate…

Christmas cards are kind of a tradition in my family. My grandmother has a photo album filled with each of the annual Christmas card pictures they have taken in their 54 years of marriage. My parents continued the tradition that my dad’s parents began, and in each year’s photo you can see our growth (there was a time I was taller than my brother!), our styles (did I truly wear my curls like that?!), our pets (I miss my Siamese cat named Mocha).