One evening during midweek madness, the beach was calling me. It had been a long time since I had seen the ocean. Instead of turning east to go back home after all the boys’ activities, I turned west and headed straight to the shore. Sometimes you need to soak in…
I try to capture most of our events with my big camera but I don’t always have it with me for the small moments I want to remember. I love that phones are accessible so I can fill in the gaps. For my birthday at the beginning of the school…
In addition to our Mackinac trip, beach days and beach nights, there were a few more things that made our time in Michigan complete.I tackled the flights with four boys solo, knowing that a few hours onboard would be worth it for two weeks in Michigan. The trip came at…
For the first time in years, we didn’t make a summer bucket list. Our move completely took over our summer and we were lucky to squeeze in a few fun things amidst all the house hunting, packing, moving and unpacking. I took some quick snapshots from my phone, so here…
Last summer, we packed up and moved a whole whopping half of a mile. And it took us a year to recover. Nothing about our move was easy, starting with the house hunting process. We had a limited time frame to end the lease on our rental home and the…
One of the adventures we were most excited about in Krabi was going on the Emperor Swing. We discovered the highly recommended experience on Trip Advisor. It included a jungle trail hike, a zipline and ultimately the Emperor Swing. This is how the Emperor Swing was described: For most people who…
I love that phones are accessible and are able to catch the moments where I don’t have my big camera in tow. Spring according to my phone looked like this: Crew finally overcame his fear of water thanks to his amazing swim teacher. We saw her twice a week all…
The camera in my back pocket captured some winter happenings I don’t want to forget. Let’s just pretend the quality of the photos is better. Even though it’s nice out all year round, the temperatures drop enough in January that if we look really hard, we can find signs of…
For years, I have written snapshots of the routines, habits, milestones and quirks that make up our current moment in time. I document events with way too many photos regularly, but the purpose of these written snapshots is to remind us in the future what life was like “way back…
The day after Christmas, we bundled up and headed to the mountains. Troy’s parents live on the backside of the mountain at Deer Valley Resort. We can see one of the ski lifts from their cabin and I’m not sure why we didn’t take advantage of being so close to…
