Love.joy.lane

[...] the 3 and a half hours home, only stopping for a delicious waffle cone piled high with ice cream (we were both having withdraws). Here is the map of our travels - we followed the star to [...]

[...] Perry got an ice cream cone (minus the ice cream) thanks to fielding who "I no like the yellow part." [...]

[...] Last night, Blake went to grab his hot cookie off the pan to go with his ice cream and noticed something odd. B - "Wow - only 3 cookies. Are you okay?" C - "Yea - I [...]

[...] (me), building a pig-pen (Blake), enjoying a hot date (me and Blake), and eating ice cream for dinner (the kids). I also made a coconut cream pie (Blake's favorite) for the first [...]

[...] on our first double-night backpacking trip. We hiked 5 miles into our campsite at one of the Boorn Lakes. Here we are on the top of the ridge before we hiked down. We hiked down into the base of these [...]

[...] , and ate some chips and queso - delicious. We finished the night by hiking back to the lower Boorn Lakes where Blake first saw the fish jumping. We did some unsuccessful fishing then headed back to [...]

[...] withdraws). Here is the map of our travels - we followed the star to Fourth of July Lakes to Boorn Lakes to Shallow/Scree Lakes and back out again. It was a wonderful weekend getaway. Awhile back, [...]

[...] . It makes doing dishes manageable and sink-baths photo worthy. The girls are getting way into board games (hmmm... wonder where that comes from?). Kara gave us Fibber (which is just a kid-friendlier [...]

[...] off to enjoy Christmas, our anniversary, and New Years but mainly to just play 3-hour board games. Blake's brothers came to town and the only thing that seemed to matter was what game were we [...]

[...] out of that dream... yeah, it was a lake not the beach, and we didn't pack in any of our board games, and the sunbathing naked part would never actually happen... but other than that it was an [...]

[...] of my own four in the morning. I see them at the grocery store, the park, the library, Cosie's dance class where a mom comes wheeling in with not one but two sets. I read about them in books. Doesn't [...]

[...] that we benefit from. 3. Dance performance Cosette performed at a retirement center for her dance class - she did a tap number to In Summer and the hula to Mele Kalikimaka. She has decided to stop [...]

[...]  So Cosie learned a hula dance this year in dance class and loved it. For her birthday, she wanted a Hawaiian party with a hula dance. Luckily I know [...]

In honor of our 10 year anniversary this year, Blake wanted to go on a couple's backpacking trip to his favorite destination - the Sawtooths. The coup [...]

Blake woke up nice and early on Friday to catch breakfast. This was the biggest of the fish that we caught on our trip. We added it to our "omelets [...]

Day 3 was basically wake up, pack up, and pack out. I did take one shot out of our tent door before we put it down. I grew quite fond of this campsit [...]