Several years after our house was first built, Amy and I decided to plant some bulbs under our Crabapple tree in front of the house. The Crabapple tree was a beautiful and hardy ornamental tree that bloomed every spring with

My first goal for publishing My Joy Journey with Amy was to create a memorial to Amy for our family and friends. By gathering all the reflections from my blog and coalescing them into one physical book, I believed that

Last fall, Claire moved into her new condo after completing several improvements. She enlisted family and friends to help her paint her bedroom and a wall in her living room. She also replaced the floor with luxury vinyl plank (LVP)

One spring, Amy volunteered to bring our Coleman RoadTrip grill to a Milwaukee Brewer tailgate party organized by her work colleagues as a team building exercise. The grill is a versatile propane grill ideal for tailgating,

During high school, I did not date. At the time, I had a variety of social insecurities and deep anxiety that kept me from engaging with the opposite sex on any level. My homecoming date my senior year, in retrospect,

Many of you who know the Youngquist family are familiar with our faithful English Springer Spaniel companion Macc. He got his name from the amalgamation of the kid’s names as well as Amy’s (Morgan Amy Carson Claire).