Welcome to Collected Moments:
a compilation of wedding celebrations, growing families, and meaningful travels. Here you'll find stories that honor the beauty of being fully present and the moments that become more treasured with time.

Last fall when they announced there would be a Pursuit Conference in the spring of 2016, I tried to figure out how in the world I could get there and justify going to two conferences within 6 months of each other. But I just couldn’t fully justify it. So when one last email came from […]
Welcome to Collected Moments:
a compilation of wedding celebrations, growing families, and meaningful travels. Here you'll find stories that honor the beauty of being fully present and the moments that become more treasured with time.
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I have no idea how it’s December already. This time last year we were waiting for the new year to come because that meant Catherine would be joining us soon! And now she’s already been with us for 9.5 months! The other thing this means is that it’s been 2 months since the Pursuit Conference… […]

She won’t ever remember it, but this was mine and baby Catherine’s first outing to somewhere other than a doctor’s office since she was born! She also helped me out by sleeping the entire time we were there :-) You’ve heard me talk about the Pursuit conference that I’ve attended the last couple of years […]