Category: Adventure

  • A Very Merry Unbirthday

    A Very Merry Unbirthday

    Since Center Sister turned fourteen while we were vacationing for our twentieth anniversary a month ago, we deferred her friend-festivities a few weeks out to this month… Keeping things chill for her fave crew of teens, we booked a private party at the neighborhood pool we joined this summer and pumped up our menagerie of…

  • Biggest Little Birthday

    Biggest Little Birthday

    In an attempt at ignoring my recent rounded, rather large birthday, I suggested to Handsome Husband that we sneak away with the kids for a bit of adventure. He upped the ante and booked us a road-trip to the Biggest Little City in the World and the third largest lake in the nation. It was…

  • Camp Gramps

    Camp Gramps

    For Christmas, my sisters and I gifted our folks a preplanned Memorial weekend trip camping together with all of our husbands, kids, and dogs. We originally booked the lakeside campground that our family’s frequented for generations (my grandparents took their honeymoon there and both sets of THEIR parents famously crashed it), but an unforeseen infestation…

  • Sweet (& Sour) Sixteen

    Sweet (& Sour) Sixteen

    Our sweet (and sometimes sour) Firstborn went and turned SIXTEEN years old. We spent the weekend celebrating her. She and her best buds have an informal Homeschool Fight Club (but the first thing about Homeschool Fight Club is you don’t talk about Homeschool Fight Club…), so she opted to spend her day shooting said pals…

  • Ocean’s Six

    Ocean’s Six

    Husband and I were recently blessed with a kid-free weekend under the bright lights of Las Vegas, alongside my sisters and their husbands. None of us gamblers, our wolfpack of six sipped and supped our way through the labrinyth of themed casinos, trudging twenty-two thousand steps a day sightseeing. Husband was our unofficial tour-guide, as…

  • Beach Blanket Bingo

    Beach Blanket Bingo

    As one last late-summer hurrah, we recently joined Husband’s folks and siblings at the southernmost beach-town in Oregon. My inlaws treated us to a long weekend at their favorite oceanside rental from which we combed the seashore, gathered shells, explored nearby trails, played games, soaked in the (two!) hot tubs, and broke bread as one…

  • Wolf Pack

    Wolf Pack

    This summer’s been a weird one, with limitations on where, when, and how we can travel, but I think our family’s done a fine job of adventuring within the metes of those restrictions and storing up a whole host of fun memories despite them. Together with our extended family, we recently zipped up to the…

  • Girls’ Getaway

    Girls’ Getaway

    Recently I was grateful to sneak away for an adventure and rest-filled girls’ trip to Central Oregon with Handsome Husband’s sister and mother. At the suggestion of my youngest brother who once worked there as a poolside waiter, we stayed at Pronghorn Resort; and even though we might’ve been the only non-golfing patrons present, we…

  • Ode to a Handyman

    Ode to a Handyman

    Back in late February, right before a certain nefarious virus began altering our way of life, Handsome Husband bought our family a beautiful fixer-upper. A comfortable abode of the same vintage as our partnership (c. 1997, thankyouverymuch), it had great bones but was overdue for some tender loving care. Husband stepped up to the plate,…