Hey there! It’s been a while. We finally got around to running all the numbers and making the time to write something up about last summer’s “COVID-19 Summer #3” cross-country road trip to visit family, see some more of the United States, and help Hadley move into her new place in the Boston area. The…
santa barbara + solvang
big bear 2014
Back in January (this is really the last post that is going to start like that!) we took the youth group to Big Bear. There wasn’t any natural snow, but we did get to go tubing down the hills thanks to some snow machines. The rest of the weekend we hung out in an awesome…
home tour
A while back, before Thanksigiving, we finally got around to getting everything photo-ready, but we never blogged. So… here we go with the tour of our main living spaces (only a year later than we should have shared :)
here + there | extended new camera edition
It seems like this week just flew past. We got a new camera(!) and of course had to test it out. The days are getting shorter and our pre-dinner walks are getting darker–we’re not looking forward to the time change. We’ve been busy sewing and working on other projects around the house, but no big…
cousins at the beach
This past weekend, Brandon, savannah and Albert met up with Elissa and Travis (he’s been in the Bay area interning at Google this summer and was in LA for the weekend) at the beach. We chose Leo Carillo, just beyond Zuma where we’ve been in the past because it’s a dog friendly beach and we…
renegade craft fair
One of the perks of living in a big city is that events actually happen here. (DUH–but we were really excited abou this one–and it was free!) One of them we were really excited about was the Renegade Craft Fair. It’s basically just a bunch of really cool craft/artist people set up in booths. It’s…
humming birds
Back in mid-May, we noticed a couple of humming birds in our backyard, so of course we ran out a bought a couple of feeders. At first, we just put one up to see how they would take to it. Loved it. There were two birds–a green one we named Ricky and a red one…
patio lights
For as long as she can remember (or the last few years anyway), savannah has wanted strings of globe lights in her outside space. After reading about the experience our friend Paige over at Come and Take It Blog had with the solar powered lights at Target, and seeing how well the solar powered lights…