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summer fun!

beautiful things , family , outdoor adventures , touristing • Sep 16, 2017

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point no point

beautiful things , outdoor adventures • Aug 4, 2017

The kids and I took one last trip to Point no Point beach with our Burton friends. Havilah and I were both feeling a bit ashamed that the last time we’d both gone to Point no Point was…

friends at the fort

beautiful things , outdoor adventures , touristing • Aug 1, 2017

The old military batteries at Fort Worden are super fun; the kids love running through the dark blind tunnels, finding passages and secret rooms, and starting at one end and seeing where they’ll come out. We’ve gone back…

mount townsend

beautiful things , food and exercise , outdoor adventures • Jul 30, 2017

Being in decent shape right now for walking up a mountain, we decided to go ahead and make the (4 miles straight up) trip up Mount Townsend. It was hard, but, as usual on long hikes, something happened…

montana vacation, part three: alan and sarah

beautiful things , others • Jul 29, 2017

We’ve been visiting with our ultra-creative-nudist-artist-gardener-musician-traveler-hippie friends for a long time now, and the more we get to know them, the more thankful we are for them. Their awesomeness can only be experienced, not described. Usually we gather…

montana vacation, part two: camping

beautiful things , family , outdoor adventures , papa , pooch , touristing • Jul 29, 2017

After our teepee adventure with the Joneses, we headed up into the mountains for our fourth annual camping trip at Ten Lakes Basin. The weather was gorgeous, the lakes were cold, the fishing was good, the guitar was…

spring

beautiful things , family , outdoor adventures • Jun 28, 2017

I’m thankful for photos, because I’ve been thinking we haven’t been doing much due to all the frantic work on the house Matt and I have been doing as we attempt to finish it all up. But, it…

spring gifts

beautiful things , family , food and exercise , kid projects , mama's projects , outdoor adventures • May 16, 2017

Spring has brought us time working on the yard and house, time with friends, and time with our church community. The kids and I have been taking walks in the woods by our house many days of the…

they jump!

beautiful things , family , food and exercise , kid projects • May 16, 2017

These kids jump morning, afternoon and evening; when they ought to be in bed and when they’re supposed to be doing math and piano; always when friends come over, sometimes alone, preferably together, and definitely with Dad. On the trampoline…

montana visit

beautiful things , outdoor adventures • Apr 19, 2017

The kids and I headed to Montana recently for some much-needed cousin playtime and to give Matt a week of space all to himself (and by that I mean, a week to work on our house uninterrupted by the myriad needs of…

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