Bree: Our adjustment to being home has been anything but smooth and with every passing day we wonder how we fit in in our old lives, or whether we really do at all. While we debate what our next move should be, we’ve been seeking weekend adventures wherever we can find them, so when we […]
Now that we have been back for exactly two months, I finally got around to putting together a slideshow. I was asked to talk a little bit about my trip and show a slideshow at work (it was only fair given how well they worked with me in letting me take 90 days of leave). […]
It is Labor Day once again – and for the second year in a row that means spending some time with Bree’s extended family at their cabin near Brian Head Ski Resort. We were so enamored with Kanarra Canyon last year that we decided to spend Saturday morning hiking up the beautiful slot. We were […]
By the time I’d been back to work for just two weeks, I was headed off to the company river rafting trip down Cataract Canyon. River rafting has been a company event every year for the past three years, but for a variety of reasons this was the first year I was able to attend. […]
After a successful morning at the REI garage sale, where I scored a sweet pair of Vibram toe shoes for half price, I was set on trying them out on some real man-terrain. Colton, Miara, and Bree wanted to go and do something interesting and preferably wet due to the heat, so we settled on […]
In spite of the fact that the temperatures are still high and the days long, reality is beginning to slap us in the face as we look at the calendar and see that our longest summer ever is nearly over. Kids are going back to school soon (including Breeanne and myself), and the year’s best […]
Bree: With a week on US soil now under our belts, we’ve spent a lot of time thinking about our suburban life. We’ve talked a lot about the things we love, the things we’ve missed, and the things we aren’t quite so sure about. We certainly missed our families and our friends and we try […]
Although a lifetime of waterskiing has been a huge part of my family’s togetherness, we fell in love with Bear Lake only a few years ago. We’re in love with its beautiful blue hue, the glassy water, and the relatively short drive from home. So, after having been back in the states for only a […]
Bree: I dreamed all night about being lost in a series of German villages with no end in sight. We just couldn’t seem to escape. But then, I woke up in our enormous hotel bed and realized that instead, the end had truly arrived. Feeling almost as nervous about returning home as I had about […]
The rain was still doing its thing when we woke up, so for the last time, we packed up a wet tent and shoved it in the car along with all of our gear, still in various degrees of being airplane ready. We had a lot of driving to accomplish today and a lot of […]
Loud thunderstorms kept us up well into the night last night and rain was still falling on the fly when we woke up this morning. We loaded everything into the tent with a soft rain still falling, meaning that everything stayed pretty wet and muddy. Then, we headed out toward Lake Bodensee to see what […]
Bree: Early on, when we began planning this trip, we had a running list of places we thought we might like to visit. It was a scramble of all kinds of places we had dreamed of since we were children, heard about from loved ones, seen in books or on the web. Ben had seen […]