MacKenzie – 2014 Volleyball Season

This is MacKenzie’s last year playing volleyball.  She is a senior and grandma and I wonder where the time went.  It seems like yesterday we were watching her playing Jr High volleyball in the North gym. We are proud also that she is considered by teammates and...

Dylan’s 2014 JV Football Pictures

The St. Louis JV football team played Michigan Lutheran Seminary at home on Thursday, September 25, 2014.  Dylan is #22 in black wearing red football gloves. The slideshow will begin automatically.  However you can view the images individually by moving your cursor to...

August 2, 2014 Athlone – Dublin

It has been a very long day with an even longer one coming tomorrow. We spent most of the day at the Guinness StoreFront at St. James Gate Dublin. I am too tired to elaborate, but suffice it to say it was a great ending to what was a fantastic trip. Tomorrow is travel...

Thursday, July 31, 2014 Innishboffin

Had a great breakfast this morning at our hotel in Tullycross, the Maol Reidh. Then we left for the port city of Cleggan, a 20 minute drive down the west coast of Ireland. We took a 20 minute ferry ride out to Innishboffin, a magical island 17 miles out into the open...

July 30, 2014 Westport – Tully Cross

Most of rural Ireland does not have hi-speed internet.  In fact the parts of Ireland where our family is visiting does not even have fiber optic internet cabling. What this means is that I am having trouble getting images to load. Frequently as I start to insert...

Monday, July 28, 2014 Achill Island

Words and pictures cannot begin to express the raw, powerful beauty of Achill Island a place where the mountains come down to the sea. With  all of its natural beauty however, Achill Island has a cruel side to it …. the winter months. The summer months will...

Sunday, July 27, 2014

For Michael, Shawn, and Corey today began at 4:30 a.m. when they left our B&B, the Boffin Lodge, to go 5 miles down the road to climb Croagh (the Gaelic word for mountain) Patrick. As most people know worldwide, St. Patrick is the patron saint of Ireland and the...