Santa Cruz Archives - Stories of Our Boys

Visiting Northern California, Our ‘Neck of the Woods

2015-06-04 aprilmomoffour California, family, friends, photography, vacation

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 […]

Henry Cowell State Park: Hiking the Redwoods…with Kids…

2014-10-28 aprilmomoffour Caleb, California, vacation

My whole life I have heard of these trees and wanted to see them. I was stoked, a couple of weekends ago, when we finally got to go hiking among them! There’s a state park in Santa Cruz called Henry Cowell State Park that has mega redwoods galore. Did you know that there would be even more of them in this area, but beginning in 1850, an estimated 95% of these sequoias were cut down? It takes hundreds of years […]