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…
There is so much to see in Glacier National Park that we had to go back a couple more times. Michael and I went with our new friend Tonja while our boys were at bushcraft and hiked John’s Lake Loop. It is an easy 1.8-mile loop that takes you to Johns Lake, Sacred Dancing Cascade, and McDonald Falls. It was…
Lucas and Henry finished up their semester at Montana Hybrid Academy (MHA) www.montanahybridacademy.com. They absolutely loved it. We are glad that we went out to Montana to meet Paz (the founder) and most of the kids in the school. It was a great two months. MHA is not a traditional school. MHA focuses on developing the whole child in a…