Delicious Success!!
December 19th, 2023
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Let the Christmas cookie chaos begin!
December 19th, 2023
The boys will be baking all day while I work-from-home over in the guest house. They have their country grandma on FaceTime standby. Stay tuned on how this turns out. 😬
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It’s beginning to look a lot like…Hueco season!
December 17th, 2023
(When in doubt, blame a broken hold)
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Yosemite, Again!
November 26th, 2023
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Out of the shop
November 18th, 20237 weeks and 1 day later, we’ve got our baby back.
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Happy Halloween
November 1st, 2023
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More Valley Boulders and Fun
October 22nd, 2023
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Girls Just Want to Have Fun…too
October 22nd, 2023I will be the first to admit that the boys’ adventure up Mt. Lemmon made me SUPER jealous. DOUBLE SUPER jealous even, because about a month ago we supported our buddy John in the Imogene Pass Run in Colorado, moral support, not physical. I wanted to run something too! I was suffering from a bad bad case of ROMO. Reality Of Missing Out (yep, made that one up. Much more severe than FOMO).
Well, I think I barely finished my sentence to Grit in throwing out there a little running adventure idea of our own before she was jumping up and down and we were hugging. Oh my goodness yes! Let’s run Tuolumne to the Valley! 17 miles! Up and over Clouds Rest! We’re doing it! And bonus idea by Grit herself: let’s have the boys run back up to fetch the car. Brilliant! Dang I love this gal.
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Yosemite Valley Bouldering!
October 22nd, 2023
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Birthday Boys
October 22nd, 202315 years ago and exactly one year before Silas was born, we celebrated Manu’s birthday with a hike up to Piute Pass fueled by Schat’s Bakery’s pullaway bread. This birthday celebration shared similar themes. Silas and Manu started the day opening presents in a lovely campground outside Bishop near the Buttermilk Boulders. We tore down camp, headed into town for gas, water and a mechanic to help figure out why the tire on our behemoth kept losing air. Next was a stop at Schat’s for pullaway bread, which Manu very heroically waited to tear into while we drove north and then west into Yosemite National Park via Tuolumne Meadows. The pullaway was devoured at Tenaya Lake. We then meandered our way down to The Valley, set up camp in Upper Pines, and then hiked over to Curry for pizza and beer. Too stuffed and tired, we decided to save the cake for breakfast the next morning.
Yes, the “hike” for pizza wasn’t quite on par with Piute Pass, but just you wait. More hiking (and then some!) to come on this trip… 😉
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