Tim and Jen Live Here

Absolutely nothing to do with politics or voting, but who doesn’t love a cute cat?
Lila finally found the courage to jump from our footboard up onto the Ikea storage unit where we keep our clothes. So she’s about 7 feet off the floor and exploring all sorts of new things. I am waiting for the [...]

I love this holiday. I’ve got flashing orange rice lights and a huge spider in my living room window (which is open because it’s still 55 degrees in Michigan at nearly 11pm). We had roughly 40 trick-or-treaters this year, which was pretty good for our neighborhood. There were a couple kids who just [...]

The words in pictures aren’t really relevant to anything, but I’ve [...]

My mom and I recently went to the Leelanau Peninsula for a belated celebration of her birthday. The peninsula is a quiet area full of small towns, nature (the area lays claim to Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore as well as many rivers and lakes), and sixteen wineries. Though we were subject to [...]

Yesterday we made the very difficult decision to have Cody put to sleep. He was nearly 13 years old and had cancer in his urethra. He was diagnosed in October 2007, and had been doing pretty well since, but the tumor made it increasingly difficult for him to urinate. He had recently [...]