Just a few (yes, a few!) of my favorites from our trip to visit my family in California over the holidays. It was the first time we’d all been in the same place for a long time– much…
It snowed here, for what may be the only time this winter. We shall see, I suppose. The kids thought it was pretty darn cool (well, kind of: Ashton dreams of snow all winter but then realizes snow is…
When the weather doesn’t look like this, which it seems to the majority of the time (and it is growing on me in its quiet beauty), we can often be found galavanting across the trails of some place…
Just a few pictures to share here from our trip to the Bloedel Reserve a few weeks ago. After we got there with an hour left before they closed, and after the rain stopped pouring, and after the…
Matt has been on a gymnastic/martial arts kick lately… well, he wants to learn that stuff and wants our kids to learn it, too. So, as we research options for engaging our family in lessons of some sort, he’s…
Our life these days is one of the unexpected, at least in terms of weather. Unlike in Florida, where it was pretty much sunny unless it was rainy, in which case it would be sunny again soon, this…
It’s been beautiful to be in the cool, colorful, crisp season of fall again, after years of missing it while in Florida. Oh, we did miss fall desperately. I have to say, though, that fall has been frustrating for me…
Again, you wanted to see something gross when you came here to see pretty pictures, right? Welcome to my world! I am sorry to startle you, but my reality is that I am mother to an imaginative, creative,…
Just to see what it was like, we jumped in the car and went to Whidbey Island one day. Riding the ferry over from Port Townsend was pretty neat, both on the way there with the views of…
We finally climbed to the top of a mountain, and did get the epic view I’ve been wanting… kind of. Through the trees it was there, and for that I am grateful. To get the 360 degree panorama…
