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Crater Lake is located in the Cascade Mountains of southern Oregon, and it is not a good idea to try and visit in March. We (bestie & I)...

Redwoods National Park is located in Northern California, and it is magical. These gigantic beautiful trees made me feel so tiny, and in...

Is it silly to spend time on 'renovating' a bird bath? Maybe Did it bring me immense joy to paint this and add a diving board for the...

January 2022 I ran the Walt Disney World 10K race event as part of their "Marathon Weekend" Backstory... I had heard about this weekend...

In January of 2022, I went on a group vacation with friends*- there were four couples on the trip, so 8 people in total. And it was...

Wow. 100 blog posts already. I started this blog in April, 2020. The world was shutting down. There was a lot of uncertainty and fear...

The Badlands National Park is located in western South Dakota and I have been to this park a handful of times. (lots of family vacations...

I desperately want to update our outdated upstairs bathrooms, but alas, I am not made of money. (and quite frankly, I'm a little tired of...

At age 30, I bought myself a promise ring. It sounds ridiculous and silly, especially as a married woman, but hear me out... I have...

I completed my first running 10K this January after months of training using the "Couch to 10k" app, and I learned a lot -Not only about...

This one's a mouthful to say, but Black Canyon of The Gunnison is located in the southwest area of Colorado. So far I've visited this...

Once I was out on my own, and able to decide more what I wanted out of the holidays & traditions, I knew I wanted a tradition that...

This is our third place together and we've now been in this house almost two years. As we're finally in the furnish-and-hang-out-phase...

Voyageurs National Park is located in Minnesota, and it's a beaut. Anyone familiar with the state of Minnesota knows that it's got a lot...

Into week 10! "Week 10" is used loosely here, as I took 2 weeks off in between. Not the best idea, but also I'm not totally mad at myself...

Pinnacles National Park is one of many in California. I was definitely not the best version of myself when we visited this park. I was a...

Into week 9! I am still in awe that I've made it pretty consistently through 8 weeks (2 months!) So I'm very excited to be entering the...

I am SO HAPPY to say I'm getting back to finding routine after a year and a half of chaos (COVD, moving, changing jobs, renovations,...

We each did our second "big" kits from LEGO. I picked a typewriter, and Drew picked R2-D2 collector series. I was really excited about...

I thing giant paper flowers are beautiful and I had wanted to try this craft for awhile now. Bestie's bridal shower seemed like the...