Open air tour buses, Fishermen’s Wharf, Sourdough Bread, The Golden Gate Bride and just a little bit of rain… we’ve been in San Francisco this week for the girls’ Spring Break. It’s been good to be offline for a while. We’re now in Redding California – good for an In N Out Burger and some …
Good news… we just confirmed our reservation for the family to get away to Mount Hermon this summer! It seems like Tamara and I dream about vacations all the time these days – probably because they’re hard to come by with 4 kids and a dog. Anyway, we’re absolutely stoked about a whole week at …
I once had a mentor tell me that shooting for “quality time” with people was misplaced. He argued that you can never necessarily plan for or determine what time will actually be “quality” and produce long lasting memories. Rather, he said, plan for “quantity time.” Somewhere in the middle of lots of time you will …
Yesterday we were able to be at Linda Janney and Travis Van Voorst’s wedding in La Jolla near San Diego. The girls were “flower girls” and did an amazing job!! It was a beautiful wedding and I was stoked that it was right on the ocean so it was ten degrees cooler than the triple …
Tamara and I were able to get away and have dinner at one of the wineries in Temecula. I pretended we were in Italy… it almost worked!!
The car is packed, so I’m calling myself officially “on vacation“!! I hope to have a meaningful thought or two and maybe even a dynamite picture from the beach while I’m gone, but I’m not planning on blogging too much :) Off to the time share (and the silly sales pitch I signed us up …
Yesterday was the first time it was Mary Joy’s birthday on Thanksgiving Day since the day she was born (a neat story for another time!!) We celebrated by eating on Wednesday night and going to Disneyland yesterday. We thought we were pretty smart, but it turns out that half of California goes to Disneyland on …
A couple of little video clips from the rafting trip… make special note of the “Garial” — the famous Gary “arial” feet!!
I’ve been out of the blogosphere for a bit while taking a guy trip. I went with some friends (Kyle Beall, Gary Christenson and Brandon Groza) to camp and raft the North Umpqua. It was a solid time all around and left us with some pretty stellar memories… like the hilarious one of Brandon hitching …
We’ve been away at Cannon Beach as a family for the past four days and after a crazy ride home (Sara dislocated her elbow) we are glad to be back in Bend.
