When Paul and I sat down to plan our family vacation, I was prepped and ready to make my case for Hawaii. Hawaii all the way baby! Dream vacation coming up! Paul, trust me! It will be perfect. I have the resort picked, the kid can go to the day camp, we can drink and…
Our trip to Sacramento was, of course, mainly to pay our respects to Aunt Sheila and spend time with family. But we also squeezed in some adventure. My cousin Mark said he didn’t want it to be a sad time, he wanted us to be celebrating. And he made it easy for us to enjoy our…
Let’s wrap this trip up, yes? Day 7 had nothing exciting to report – just a travel day. We drove back to Chicago to take a flight to Kansas City to drive into Joplin, Missouri. And unlike the first part of our trip, the second part was all scheduled correctly, thankyouverymuch. The next day was spent…
Obviously things slowed down significantly in Madison. Well, most things. Stevie was still go, go, go and wanted to play on the stairs pretty much the entire stay. Super fun for everyone, taking shifts catching whatever he felt like throwing down at the moment. The stuff vacation dreams are made of, I’m telling you. But…
Oh Chicago. Another city crush. You all know I am a huge fan of New York, but Chicago is up there too. It’s like the preppy little sister to rockin’ NYC. Lots of good shopping, eating and city fun while still looking so pretty and friendly. Stevie likes the hustle and bustle of the city too. Cars…
Hey all! We made it back to hot Los Angeles! Overall we had a really good trip visiting family in 3 different states. Man, we are ambitious on vacation – now we need an actual vacation to recover. Day one. Oh, day one. Boy do I have a story for you! But I’ll start at…
Weekend between Christmas and the New Year. Paul has time off. Hmmm… I should catch-up on editing photos. I should get the house in some type of order. I should, I should, I should do so many other things. But spending some days being lazy sounds nice. Spending some time in a quiet town sounds so good. Seeing…
Too much food. The first words that came to mind thinking about our trip to Utah. Seriously, though. Still full. But also: laughter, beauty, nostalgia, happiness, frustration and a little bit of heartache all rolled into one big group hug. We stayed up too late. Woke up too early. Made too many dirty jokes. Enjoyed…
Day 5 is also known as the last day of our Pacific Northwest vacation. *Insert sobbing emoji here* We hustled that morning to pack up and get out the door. Just a few last things in Portland to see before we headed back to Seattle for our flight home. Our first stop was VooDoo Doughnuts. Now, listen…
Portland was warm. Portland was pretty. Portland was… weird. They don’t lie about that fun little fact. We had a lot of recommendations for food, which was obviously fine by me. But other than that, we weren’t really sure what to do with ourselves. So with a couple tourist pamphlets and Google Maps in hand,…