Like every newlywed couple in our twenties, we decided pretty quickly we weren’t ready for babies just yet, but that we’d find just the right time for fur babies. About six months ago, a friend posted a photo on Facebook of three adorable kittens living in her back yard in the heat of the Arizona summer. […]

We lived within two miles of each other growing up in Arizona, but never met until high school. Even though we didn’t know each other as kids, a lot of our childhood memories were made in the same zip code. We played in the same ball crawls, colored on the same children’s menus, and got […]

The night before Amy’s college graduation, Jordan went to work like an elf on Christmas eve. His supplies? Old-fashioned. Nothing fancy. Just white and yellow paper, scissors, glue, and four years of memories. He cut 30 strips of paper. Fifteen white, the bride’s classic color. Fifteen yellow, the color of friendship. On each one, he […]

If you were anything like us growing up, you didn’t back-to-school shop at Abercrombie and Fitch. You went to Wal-Mart and rocked Faded Glory like it was nobody’s business, and if you went designer, you sported Cherokee from Target — and you said “Target” with a French accent. That thrift carried over into grocery shopping, too. Our […]

Chocolate-covered macadamia nuts. They’re seriously the best thing about Hawaii. When anyone asks us about our Hawaiian honeymooning, those evil treats are the first things that come to mind. In the midst of all the beauty of our honeymoon, there was truly nothing better than curling up with a box of those chocolates and indulging a […]

We moved into our first place together after our Hawaii honeymoon, and it’s the same place we lived for eight years. Our first night here, we had no furniture except our bed, and we laid up all night like teenagers at a slumber party. We talked, giggled, and dreamed about the future together. We just […]

We flipped the switch off. And the lights went out for the last time. For four years, we’d taught elementary school in neighboring classrooms. Together. We carpooled in the mornings and danced to our favorite jams. We ate lunch in our classrooms and supervised recess.We played dress up on spirit days and chaperoned field trips. We […]

School pictures. That’s how it all happened. That’s how this whole adventure got started. Amy, fresh out of college, was teaching fourth grade at a local elementary school. It was a great little charter school with small class sizes and limited funding, so big photo companies like Lifetouch were out of the question when it […]

We failed our first pre-marital class. Kind of. It really depends on who you ask. But there we were, young pups, just over the legal drinking age, sitting in our church’s pre-marital class with dozens of other couples, awaiting the results of the personality test we’d taken the week before to find out if we […]