Black Mountain 2017 Another awesome labor day weekend in Black Mountain!! This year we spent a lot of time playing games, including old favorites as well as a new one that Stephen loves called Captain Sonar. Don’t judge it by it’s name…it’s a lot more fun than it sounds! It’s a real-time, team-based version of...
The Outer Banks and Edenton First Stephen and I went to Jockey’s Ridge. He’d never been before, and I haven’t been since college. It was threatening rain all morning, but that just made the clouds look amazing! It must have rained a lot recently…I’d never seen so much water collected between the dunes! Then we...
Summer Vacation in Michigan I love this place. It’s so peaceful and quiet. There’s something so comforting in the simple things; walks in the woods, drives in the truck, paddles on the river, and bouquets of wildflowers. I love vacations where you don’t have to do anything at any specific time…a week of just doing...
New York City & Boston Vacation In the middle of April we got to go on vacation together! We’ve been talking for YEARS about visiting New York City and seeing a broadway show and we finally got to do it. We even got to add a couple days in Boston in the middle of our...
Black Mountain It’s now an annual tradition to spend Labor Day weekend at our church’s cabin in Black Mountain with a bunch of our friends, and I look forward to every year!! Now it’s not restful exactly (read at all), because, well, what weekend with 10 other people in one house would be? Especially when...
Alaska Vacation Last week we went on vacation with my family on an Alaska cruise!! I’ve always wanted to go to Alaska, and my dad’s been talking about this trip for 8 years. It was AMAZING to finally get to do it!!! Just about everything I looked at took my breath away, and it was so...
