Birthday Boy
May 7th, 202311 now!
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Instant Friends
April 18th, 20234 kids, in France. Never-mind that the 2 Americans speak English and the 2 Swiss speak German. Instantaneous friendship. ❤️
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Time with Grandma
March 18th, 2023
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Trip Wrap Up
January 7th, 2023We finished off our holiday travels with some quality snow time in Park City, Utah with my sister and brother-in-law. For Christmas we got the kids “one day of skiing or snowboarding at a big fancy ski resort in the Wasatch Mountains.” ….and they both totally crushed learning a new sport in a matter of, oh…one day. Meanwhile, Paul and I haven’t strapped a snowboard on in about 15 years. Pleased to report it was ‘just like riding a bike’ as they say.
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Happy New Year!!!
December 31st, 2022And the holiday travels continue. Feeling very thankful that we can be bouldering in Massachusetts one day, and then waist deep in perfect Utah snow the next! Cheers to a STELLAR 2022!!!!
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Utah to Pennsylvania to New York
December 29th, 2022Photo summary below of holiday travels thus far.
Stay tuned. Our holiday travels are not over yet!
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Holiday Travelers
December 23rd, 2022First stop: Park City, Utah for a night.
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Halloween Fun
November 6th, 2022Family back in town for a visit, my mom’s birthday, a hike, a trip to the Tucson Botanical Gardens, a new bike jump, pumpkins, costumes and our annual Halloween party. Last weekend was packed!!
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Silas’ Video of Rim to Rim
October 26th, 2022Boy to Teenager & Rim to Rim
October 16th, 2022Not more than 1/2 a mile down into The Canyon during our last visit to the North Rim, someone announced an epic adventure idea. I can’t remember who exactly started the idea, but by the time we were 1 mile down on our hike that day, the idea was finalized into a plan. At the rate we were pushing, ticking off one huge hike a weekend in preparation for Mt. Kendall, we knew we would all would be quite fit for something big come October…something really big. And it just so happened that this October was the one that Silas would turn 13. And furthermore, his birthday landed on a weekend, smack dab in the middle of the kids fall break from school, which also happened to be the last weekend that amenities were open on the North Rim. The universe was clearly indicating that this was a primo opportunity. So like I said, it took us only a 1/2 mile of hiking to hatch the idea, and come up with the highly logistical plan to make it happen:
Hike the Grand Canyon, South Rim to North Rim, in a day, for Silas’ 13th birthday.
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