This time last year we were living in a beach town in Nicaragua. We could see the ocean from our balcony. This year we have been landlocked except for a couple of weeks at the beach. The first week was our mega aunt, uncle, and cousin weekend in Hilton Head, S.C. Our second week was another aunt, uncle, and cousin-filled…
Every once in a while Lucas and Henry will say they want another sibling. That is not going to happen, but that doesn’t mean they can’t see what it would be like. Their cousin Vivian was at the beach in Hilton Head with us. She flew home and then two days later decided she wanted to come to visit for…
During our epic cousins week at the beach Lucas ran a restaurant with the help from his cousins. It was a breakfast joint called Cousins Restaurant. The restaurant was open every morning from 8-10. Aunts, uncles, grandmas, cousins, and even Michael, Henry, and I purchased meals. Lucas was responsible for creating the menu with pricing. He also had to come…
One grandma, a great aunt and uncle, four aunts, five uncles, and eleven cousins. An EPIC family beach week. It gets harder as we all get older and spread out geographically to find times when we can all get together. It is not easy. We drove from Arizona. My brother Sam and his wife AC flew from California. His kids…
We put over 12,000 miles on our car in the last 6 months. We put 1,800 of those miles on in two and half days by driving from Phoenix to Atlanta, and an additional 280 miles two days later to get to Hilton Head, South Carolina. We do not recommend making this trip so quickly. Normally we would not rush,…
We try not to visit Arizona in the summer, but this year it was on our way back East and it had been too long since we saw Michael’s mom and Mema. The week we visited the temperatures were in the 110s. We stay with Michael’s sister Melissa when we visit. The cousins have a blast together. They have a great…
We had a monster travel day from Seattle, Washington to Sunnyvale, California. 15 hours with stops. We had to pop into Aunt Beckala and Uncle Joe’s house because we left Lucas and Henry’s bows that they made in bushcraft there. Luckily it was on the way. My brother Sam and his wife AC live in Sunnyvale. Unfortunately, we were not able…
Seattle is a place we have always wanted to visit. Michael’s high school friend Brian, his wife Michelle and their dog Pepper were kind enough to host us in their beautiful home. We only spent two days in Seattle. Definitely not long enough, but enough time to know that we want to see more someday. We went to Pikes Peak…
When we were in Seattle, Michael could not resist flying up to Alaska. “We are so close!” He said. Michael was only four states away from having been to all 50, and Alaska is a tough one, so I was not going to argue. Also, it is true. We were the closest we have ever been. We found a cheap…
We have had a fast travel pace since leaving Montana. We were in Whitefish, Montana for two months and now the longest we are anywhere until July is a few days. We traveled from Montana to Oregon to visit Michael’s Aunt Beckelah and Uncle Joe. It was our first visit to Oregon. On our way there, we stopped in Coeur…