travel

American Girls

Don’t you love this picture?  All of us are there, thanks to the mirror, but you might miss Joel if you don’t look carefully… My girls are obsessed with American Girl.  Totally obsessed.  Before our trip to Chicago, they combed the catalogs, trying to decide what they would buy when we arrived at The American…

Road Trippin’

We just arrived home last night from spending a week in Chicago.  We’re completely exhausted, but only because we had a ton of fun and did as much as we could possibly cram in for the week.  I took hundreds of photos (the only reason the number isn’t in the thousands is because I totally…

Surfing at Sunset

Oh yeah!  Remember how I went on a cruise to the Caribbean in January? Me neither. Okay, so I pretty much stink at getting vacation photos edited, much less posted.  Something about being easily distracted and easily overwhelmed,  I guess.  Although, I’d like to think that anyone would be intimidated by a vacation where nearly…

All Aboard!

After getting down to the Port of Miami on Sunday morning and standing in several lines for what seemed like hours, we finally met up with my whole family in the last line.  That was cool. Then we got onto the second largest cruise ship on the water: The Liberty of the Seas. First we…

Somewhere in Mackinac

I got home last night from Mackinac Island, very exhausted from traipsing around with Bria and her Girl Scout troop.  But we had so much fun.  I have always wanted to go to Mackinac, so I jumped at the chance when the troop announced this activity. I was wishing I hadn’t paid for it once…