Some more firsts for us during this first camping trip of the summer – first dry camping with our trailer, first mountain camping as a foursome, and for you kids, the first fire pit, and Adela’s first roasted hotdogs and marshmallows for s’mores. This was great. It’s easy to fall a little more in love […]
This is something I want to remember. It’s the first book you ever fell in love with, Jo. Little Blue Truck. Beep, beep, beep! You point your finger and push the truck and Daddy or I say the beeps, and you grin and stare and wait for us to turn the page and do it […]
Doughnuts on parade day has become a yearly tradition. First stop, Jelly Doughnut. Second stop, pickup Mimi. Third stop, walk to the truck we parked on the parade route at 6:30am earlier that morning. We had planned on saving all the doughnuts for during the parade, but Josiah, my dear, you freaked out when the […]
This was our first 3-mile hike as a family of four, the 49 Palms Oasis trail in 29 Palms. This is true desert hiking. Rocks, more rocks, sand, more sand, sun, and more sun. But we saw lots of lizards, and after climbing up about 1000 giant rock steps, we got to see a real […]
