Dad called and asked if I was coming to the livestock auction and I abandoned all plans of productivity. I raced around the house throwing shoes, socks & coats of any color & size on the kids. 5 minutes later we were ready and looking like something out of National Geographic. I got yelled at for taking photos […]
Category: grand adventures
We impulsively decided to sneak away before baby is born and figured our 17th anniversary was as good excuse as any. We stayed at the Cannery Pier Hotel on the Astoria water front. Astoria is the oldest town west of the Rockies, rich in Finnish & Scandinavian history and you know how I love history. The […]
The landscaper’s announcement that they were seeding the dirt yard prompted our last minute trip to the ocean. I decided it would be easier to leave than to try to keep the children out of the way on a hot day. Levi left at 3am to go fishing so it was just me and the […]
On the way home while trying to decide where to stop for the night I caught a glimpse of a sign on the side of the interstate that read: Historic Iron Horse Hotel, next exit I frantically ordered Levi to “turn here! turn here!”. In the nick of time we found ourselves winding through quaint farm […]
We rolled into warm & sticky South Carolina around lunch time. My hands & feet swelled. I felt like I was taking a sauna with my clothes on. But that is beside the point. First stop was my cousin Bonnie’s house. This is when my GPS started to lie to me and it took us twice […]
2700 miles of blacktop & 3 time zones in 3 days. We rolled into Windy Ridge at 9:45pm last night. I stumbled through the door and immediately had 7 kids(one was sleeping) crowded around me telling me the events of the last nine days and showing me the treasures they had found. It is so […]
We took the day off and went huckleberry picking in the mountains. Such a wonderful way to clear your mind and enjoy the simple things. A whiff of the exhaust from my dad’s jeep is all it took to bring me back to the time we spent camping, hiking & picking in these hills when […]
MEANDER me·an·der Verb 1. To move or cause to move in a sinuous, spiral, or circular course; We did a lot of aimless meandering. My youngest sister, Tamason, is the only one with a sense of direction so thank goodness she came with us or I think we would still be meandering today. We […]
I took an overwhelming amount of photos. My insatiable desire to snap photos everywhere I go is borderline obsessive. I commented to Anna that it would be nice to have a camera built in my eyes then I could just blink. I think blinking would probably be easier for me. My poor Canon Rebel. I […]
Greetings from sunny Carmel. Turns out this area was hit by the storm and we barely missed it by a day. I am forced to wander the neighborhood to connect to the internet so that I can post as promised. The flights here were painless. Violet slept from beginning to end on both flights. It […]