If you want that cozy, holiday, cabin feel, even in the middle of summer, I present: Christmas in July at Big Bear! Big Bear Lake, California is known for being a winter ski and snow resort up in the San Bernardino Mountains. It’s been a hot, dry summer, with Los Angeles hitting record triple-digit temperatures. Remembering our last visit in the fall, to see...
JD has dreams and has goals: part of those intersect with her Venice dreams and parenting goals. It was time to check visiting Venice Italy off the bucket list, so JD set off to visit Venice Italy and experience it with her daughter.
My first time seeing the Pacific Ocean almost didn’t happen. I almost took a pass. I was a Chicago Gal, no oceans near me. Maybe I was just made for the Great Lakes. I had taken this new job, and the travel requirements said 20 percent travel. But, I ended up on the road every Tuesday through Thursday traveling across North America. About once a month, I...
All of our photos are originals, taken by us within our daily life, morning walks or bigger adventures. Since starting this blog, we have much more of a conscious eye towards what surrounds us. The way the light filters through the trees, or the foam hitting the sand at just the right moment. Little details we would normally walk right by. There are hundreds of...
Storrier Stearns Japanese Gardens
Within an hour of JD meeting Z: “So you take a Flamingo, one of those plastic ones, and you put it in the front yard. Then everyone knows to come over and hang out.”-JD “Ok, we are doing that at my house tonight. Tell everyone.” (about 6 hours later, it’s late. It’s dark. Z’s yard is full of people, a bonfire is going)...
Have you ever asked, Is There More to Life? That's How We Started Wandering.The saying is it takes a village to raise a child, and with 8 children between us, we found support in one another for carpools and sleepovers. Our friendships strengthened into family camping trips and celebrating holidays together
