Photos of 17 Mile Drive and the Carmel Mission

You may be tempted to think, “How can you live in California and not be utterly happy all the time from these incredibly beautiful surroundings?” Good question. The unfortunate thing is that I don’t actually live on the beach and see these sights every single day. In fact, I pretty much forget they are there until company comes and we show them around. Most destinations are too hazardous to take on with two pre-schoolers, seeing as how I’d like to […]

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Visiting Northern California, Our ‘Neck of the Woods

visiting Northern California

As soon as I get back from my Alabama and Florida trip, we have company arriving!!  We LOVE hosting our friends and taking them sight-seeing. When we lived in DC, we hosted about 7 families/year. California is so far off from most of our friends and family that this happens a lot less. We are all so pumped to have friends come! Joshua has a countdown going. There are endless things to do, right here within two hours of my […]

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We are Amazon ready for Black Friday.

  I’m so excited to tell you that I am officially an affiliate for my favorite company:  Amazon. What does this mean for you? It means that if you click on the Amazon badge on my webpage, it will take you to Amazon.com. Once there, if you buy something, I will get a tiny little commission. So feel free to use and abuse my webpage as your gateway to holiday shopping.  I know most of my family does their Christmas […]

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