California 2024

Another California summer trip back home. Technically we didn’t go last year. We went down last September to Napa for … More

Talapus Lake

Hikes haven’t been happening nearly as much as I’d like. Kids. Life. Schedules. (Laziness.) I did manage to get Brian … More

A week with only three kids! It felt so easy. Blaise and Laine were away at Camp Orkila for a … More

Laine is officially a teenager! Now we have two in the house. Everyone warns about the teenage years and I … More

This wasn’t even five months ago and yet it feels like five years ago. Weird how that works. However long … More

Our annual tulip trip happened during spring break. Not my usual thing since I tend to avoid crowds and all. … More

Being that I’m nearly a year behind getting caught up on all the things, let’s bang this sucker out. Steamboat … More

Technically Carlsbad. But if you say Carlsbad to someone not from California, they may be like, where? A book I … More

The plan was to hit the Preston-Snoqualmie Trail. I always see the trail crossing across Preston-Fall City Road and have … More

Another Maive outing. This time to Lower Snoqualmie Falls. Surprisingly, I had never been. I mean, I’ve been to the … More