Shot this pic tonight of Tobin at our youth event, BYOC (Bring Your Own Chair). :)

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Our friends, Dusty and Kristen Buchmann, had little baby boy, Dakota, on March 10. Seeing as they were brand new parents with no free time (or sleep for that matter), I offered to make them a baby website. I just finished it last night.

What do you think? Go check it out at [...]

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With the last few weeks being as difficult as they have been, emotionally, it’s really nice to see everything starting to bloom. Our backyard gets NO sun, so it seems like everything takes a little longer to bloom in our yard. (In fact if you look at our house on Google Maps, it’s [...]

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Wow, last week was REALLY hard. If you read my blog, you know that we had a good friend go to be with the Lord a little over a week ago, so life has been pretty emotional since. Sean’s funeral was on Saturday. I made the memorial video for that. The [...]

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Last night we had Illuminate. For those of you who don’t know, that’s our youth group (7th - 12th grades). We knew it was going to be super hard, especially since Sean’s had such a positive impact there for the last few months. He’d been leading the games/activities prior to youth, and [...]

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Well today starts the third full day of life without Sean Vanderhoff. Today seems especially hard, ’cause it’s back to work… I can only imagine how sad the Vanderhoff family is today. Sean would probably have gotten home last night from his trip, and be available today to give his sister’s [...]

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This weekend has been so hard emotionally. Sean Vanderhoff, the son of our pastor, and a close friend of Tobin and I passed away late last night in a car accident. We’re really torn up about this. For a few summers there, I almost thought that Sean lived with us - he [...]

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Spring is less than a week away (though with daylight savings going into effect, it seems like it’s already here). Everything is sprouting and growing - what a great time of the year.

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Stephen and I went to Marine View Espresso yesterday. It’s been bought and sold several times in the last few years, but we still enjoy going there.

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After work last night, I headed down to the Des Moines Marina and took a few shots. Although I’m having a hard time adjusting to the time change, it is nice to have more light at night after getting off work.

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