Good Reads
Check out my new Sidebar Widget. Good Reads will link you to all the books I am currently reading! I really am enjoying using Good Reads. You get such great ideas from other friends…plus reviews! And it is useful because…
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The Good Recession
For the past two weeks, our senior pastor, Josh Harris, (www.joshharris.com) has led our church in a mini sermon series called “The Good Recession.” It has been insightful and encouraging, to say the least. Josh’s essential question has been, “How…
For Judy on January 1
Many of you think that the Jansens are super-hyper-obsessive about eating healthy. Let me break that lie with the truth that on New Years Day, the Jansens make deep-friend doughnuts. In Dutch, “Ollie Bollen.” Alas, we are not hosting our…
Merry Christmas from the Jansens
: Jansen Family 2008 : “And from His fullness we have all received grace upon grace.†John 1 JAN. Olie-Bollen (Dutch Doughnuts) party on New Year’s Day! Peter & Emily travel to Western Uganda for 14 days to serve alongside Covenant…
Life is Hard, Move On
Still being a single, this video is refreshingly witty and simple when it comes to the game of love. I saw this on Josh Harris’s blog this morning and it absolutely cracked me up.  Dates, crushes, the whole nine yards.  Nine-year-old…
T.H.A.N.K.S.G.I.V.I.N.G.
T stands for Trees at Sunset in Phoenix. Whenever we go to Phoenix, I always marvel at the wide open spaces. This picture was taken at sunset at the Las Sendas Golf Course. H stands for Happy Birthday Wishes from…
…COMING SOON…
Hello, there. Thanksgiving pictures are forthcoming. Life has been a bit busy. Ok, so that’s not really a good excuse, because it is ALWAYS busy. But, I am just popping in to say that I enjoyed a marvelously relaxing week…
GOING OUT WEST
Going out West tomorrow! Â That’s right. Â Our second, “annual” Thanksgiving trip to Phoenix. Â Mom and Dad left at the crack of dawn this morning. Â Peter, Brett, and I will follow tomorrow. Â We will all share our Thanksgiving meal together next…
ADVENTURES IN NYC
Well, I’m back from the Big City! Lauren and I had a wonderful time. The Chinatown Bus was certainly an adventure, but we made it there and back! One of the things that Lauren and I both agreed we wanted…
N.Y.C.
Lauren and I are off to the big city tomorrow! :: TENATIVE PLAN :: china town bus from DC to NYC. to uncle erik’s apartment to sleep to coffee in the morning to taking photos to modern museum of art…