California 2024

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

Talapus Lake

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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