Moran Family Fun

After a year and a half of our family living scattered across different continents, taking over parts of dear family members' homes, living in hotels for an extended period, and generally having a bit of an unsettled life, we're in a house that we expect to call home for the next few years. We're mostly here together - it's still strange to have our family become smaller and more spread out as our children grow while at the same time become larger because of our two amazing sons-in-law. The four of us who are here are here together and that's been pretty great PLUS we have all of our things. It's both strange and wonderful.  When we moved into our home in Brandon, I posted a little house tour here and it's been fun to look back on that, so I thought we could do the same thing here for our Bickendorf house.  I loved our house in England because it was all on one level and it had an enormous kitchen. We have stairs here and a smaller kitchen, but we still love...

This post has been bouncing around in my head for the past six months. Having two daughters get married in the space of a little over a year meant that we needed a lot of help with wedding-related things between April of 2020 and April of 2021. I was particularly thankful for the help we received leading up to Emily and Ben's wedding. Because Covid was a little more under control this spring, they were able to have more guests than Madison and Carson did which meant more to plan and prepare and, for me, more stressful feelings. There is no way we could have pulled off either event without the help of some wonderful friends and family members. Six months out from Emily and Ben's big day, here's my list of the many, many people who made it possible for everything to go so well. I'm probably forgetting some people, so if you're not mentioned here just know that my prayers were full of gratitude for you in the weeks before and after the wedding.  Ben's parents JD an...