Category: Adventure

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…