This is a very different year for us than last year when we spent most every week/month traveling to new places. We totally, totally loved hopping around from city to city last year, but it was hard to maintain consistency with athletics, activities, and music lessons, so we switched things up this year. This winter,…
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Favorite Family Snowboard Pics
EpicMix rocks!! At the top of the lifts at all the mountains are a handful of people dressed in Green with professional cameras ready to take your pic as you strike a pose. They zap our Epic Mix card, and then at the end of the day, we get an email that includes a link…
Thankful for Great Parents
I was a lucky one. I was fortunate to grow up in a home with two wise, wonderful parents who showered us with love, encouragement, and memorable experiences. It was their aim to raise us four girls to be independent, kind, and full of faith, and so they offered us many opportunities to spread our…
Leaving Austin
It’s been such a weird experience for us all to slow down from traveling for three months in a place that feels like “home.” In the beginning, it was actually quite shocking to our system to be plunged back into some amazing friendships that we’d missed over the year and also into a rigorous athletic…
Wisdom to a Teen
Our son Gabe recently became a teenager! One of my great friends inspired me with a special birthday gift idea – to compile a book of letters to Gabe from the people who know and love him most. They shared what they appreciated about Gabe, and what they hoped for him for his future. Needless to…
Gabe’s Year of Amazing
Gabe turned 13 today! Yes, we have a TEENAGER in the house. This is exciting and wild to us all at the same time. Hard to believe, and yet just feels like the most natural next stage of life as parents and a family. I wanted to make sure and have this video of his…
Slideshow and Playlist
I love my family, mountains, pictures, and music. Those really are my favorite things. Put them all together, and you get a slideshow of our Freejourners adventure together. We relive these memories frequently as we watch the slideshow together. It makes us both happy and sad. I think we just miss it. Sometimes a song…
One Year Reflections
Man, oh man, one year breezes by when every week feels like the best week of your life. It is surreal to think about our last year, traveling around the West. We’ve seen and learned so much, and grown in ways that are likely hard to measure just yet. Gabe’s height and shoe size is…
San Francisco Fun
For some reason, it felt surreal being in San Francisco! We’d been looking forward to this area for so long, and so we hung around for a few weeks. Everywhere from San Jose to Windsor. So many great spots to explore, and so much variety. We did the city as tourists: Golden Gate Bridge,…
Fern Canyon and Damnation Trail
If you are heading towards Northern California, I’d totally recommend staying a few days in or around Crescent City. From there you can access the Redwoods National and State Parks and some amazing hikes to the coast. We enjoyed another one of our favorite days of hiking around here. In one day, we fit in:…
Golden Gate Bridge
I visited my great friend Rachel in San Francisco before my Junior Year of College, but we didn’t go see the Golden Gate Bridge, so it’s been something on my “bucket list” ever since. I realize now what probably happened – it was likely foggy and overcast on the day we wanted to visit, making it…
Meeting More College Alums
It was such a treat to connect with more University of Rochester Alumni while in California. Except this time, it wasn’t planned. Totally cool serendipitous moment that wouldn’t likely have happened even with a 10 second time difference. Don was turning around, after trying to eat at a restaurant that was closed in downtown Windsor….
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