Puerto Vallarta Recap

Our Mexico trip seemed to fly by and sadly I didn’t blog in the moment, but I wanted to give a trip recap while the events are still semi-fresh. Day 2: Tuesday was definitely a relaxing day with beach time and pool time.  We had our first encounter with the huge iguanas and the infamous turtles! […]

Mexico with the Newlyweds

We are now at vacation number 3 of the year, but this time we brought my mom and her new husband Steve along for the ride! They so deserve this week of relaxation, and I’m so glad we get to share it with them both.  So many new experiences for them, and it’s so fun […]

Home Sweet Home

We arrived home about 1am this morning and slept a good portion of the day away. We made a quick pit stop in Tacoma to Stadium High School… which is where 90% of 10 Things I Hate About You was filmed.  I can’t even imagine going to school in a place like that — so […]

The Emerald City

Did you know that Seattle is nicknamed The Emerald City? No? Me either.  Still not sure why, but sure, maybe Seattle is in the Land of Oz. Today we had the full experience of exploring Seattle after ferrying into the city, of course.  First stop was Pike Place Market (holy busy). I’ve been told this is […]

Travel Day

We’ve arrived back in Seattle, which means today was mostly a travel day for us. However travel days still mean adventure!  We headed south to Vancouver to visit the Capilano Suspension Bridge and ended up spending a couple hours there exploring the bridge, cliff walks, treetop adventures and the fudge =)  But that ended our […]

Canoeing, Kayaking, Hiking, oh my.

Today was a bit of a lazy day which was nice. No set alarm waking up at 9:30 which was even nicer.  The lodge we are staying at has a bunch of really nice amenities that we figured we should take advantage of, so after breakfast we headed out to the lake to do some […]

Today… We Flew.

We came to Canada to fly, and today we did just that. We decided we wanted to zipline on this trip months ago, and that is the reason we ended up in Whistler in the first place. Superfly Ziplines seemed to have the best views for the best price, and tripadvisor highly recommended them so […]

Hanging in a Volcano

Yesterday was an extremely long day, so journaling was just not an option when we arrived at our lodge last night. We departed Grandma’s house about 6:30am and were constantly on the go until 10:30 last night arriving in CANADA! The big pit stop along the way was Mt St Helens, of course. Kevin has […]

Happy Birthday to Me

I spent my birthday at the best place to ever spend your birthday… Grandma’s house. Especially when Grandma is a cake baker!  We had to go about our day before I got the good stuff though, so to occupy our time we headed to Mary’s Peak which is really close to Philomath, Oregon. Grandma, Kevin […]