road trip, part one
I love going through all these pictures. Such good memories. The idea of the holiday road trip to the northwest first popped into our heads a little after Thanksgiving. Basically, it was a “why not”...
View Articleroad trip, san fran edition
Our big goal stop for the trip was San Francisco. We had to actively try not to fall in love with it. Who wouldn’t love a city that put a prison on its own island. Christmas lights also make everything...
View Articleroad trip, with a history lesson
On this day, we drove about 11 hours or so through northern California, all the way up Oregon, into Washington. The southern Oregon part was the worst, since it was dark, the roads were curvy, and it...
View Articlependleton woolen mills
On our way back to Texas after the holiday, we stopped at THE Pendleton Woolen Mills. We were driving through Pendleton, so it would be silly if we didn’t stop, right? They sadly don’t do tours on...
View Articleroad trip, part four + some road trip tips
We took the more direct route back to Texas. So we drove through eastern Oregon, south through Utah, a little Colorado, some New Mexico, and then back to Austin. There really is some beautiful scenery...
View ArticleEvening walks
One of my favorite things to do is to go on an evening adventure with the girl. Sometimes it’s pie. Sometimes it’s coffee. Sometimes it’s just to get the exercise. The view isn’t half bad either!
View Articlean afternoon in seattle
A couple weeks ago, I tagged along to one of Jon’s business meetings in Seattle. We were there for about 24 hours, and tried our best to keep count of every Starbucks we saw. We got to our hotel pretty...
View Articletrip to enchanted rock
Last weekend, we took an adventure day to go climb up Enchanted Rock. We went all the way up to the top. I was a little terrified coming back down, but we made it round trip in one piece! It was a...
View Articlehappy st patrick’s day
We had Irish soda bread buns for breakfast, but we haven’t found any four-leaf clovers yet. In honor of today, I looked through some of our Ireland vacation pictures from a couple years ago. We made it...
View Articlebees in the tree
My ma has this amazing tree in the front yard. Every spring, for a very brief period of time, it fills with millions of little white flowers. This year, we braved all the busy, buzzing bees visiting...
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