Holiday Wrap-Up

We had a wonderful holiday season, celebrating Thanksgiving, Great Grandma VanUtrecht’s 90th birthday, Christmas, and Morgan’s birthday. And, all our photos can be viewed on Facebook by clicking right here. I’m taking the lazy way out, but they are already posted and have captions telling the stories of our holiday adventures. Enjoy! (To view the [...]

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The Grand Canyon is more than Grand

I have seen the Grand Canyon before, so I was very excited for my family to see it for the first time! There really are no words to describe it’s beauty, and pictures just do not do it justice. I expected to be amazed, but I wondered if would be as dramatic as the last [...]

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Pondering Easter

As I ponder Easter and all it means to my faith, I keep coming back to a passage in the Bible in the book of Acts. Paul is speaking to people in Rome who were worshiping many different gods. The God who made the world and everything in it is the Lord of heaven and [...]

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Details

This post is mostly for me to remember how God cares about the details of our lives. It is easy for me to remember that God cares about the big things, big decisions, the big problems and issues of life. Even when the world appears to be full of sickness, sadness and hopelessness, I know [...]

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Little House on the Prairie

Here we are as Ma, Pa and Half-Pint. Our church held a Pioneer-style, outdoor worship service and picnic recently, so we dressed (as best we could) for the occasion. We got creative with some dress-up box items, borrowed a few things, got a thrift store dress for Paige and used an old curtain. It was [...]

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Always

I’ve tried to keep my blog posts to the “adventures of the Drosts,” but I just felt like sharing one of my current top songs. I’ve been thinking a lot lately about the verse in Romans 12 … “Rejoice with those who rejoice; mourn with those who morn.” It seems we’ve had a lot of [...]

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