May and June 2021
Time for a quick catch-up. For the sake of efficiency, let’s break this down into categories of people/things with a whole lot of pictures.
A Major Award
Noel and I recently entered Recreation.gov’s Share Your Story contest. We had a lot of fun reminiscing about trips we’d taken and editing, editing, editing. At the end of the day, Noel had a winning essay – an honorable mention for the Family or Group travel category. For his efforts, he was rewarded with some Recreation.gov swag. If you’re interested, you can check out our essays below: Lessons on the San Juan River – Noel’s Honorable mentionPerseid Meteor Shower at…
2020/2021 School Year Debrief
Oh. My. Goodness. This has seriously been the longest school year ever. I think that’s in part because it’s been 14 months since the kids have sat in an actual classroom. Last summer, there was a lot of uncertainty about what school would look like. Our school district sent out surveys for parent and student input and tried to put together a plan. My vote was actually for a hybrid schedule where the kids went to school 2-3 days a…
April 2021
When we got back from our Spring Break, Ellen had a fun package in the mail from Grandpa Wayne. This is basically her spirit animal.
Spring Break 2021
Noel and I got our COVID-19 vaccines literally an hour before driving out of town for our spring break plans. I felt a little off that afternoon and was really worried about how it would affect our spring break trip, but ended up feeling completely fine the next day. We spent the night in Moab. Our room had a window right outside the hot tub. The kids were so sad because we told them there was no way we were…
March 2021
March was a good, but busy month. Even in a pandemic it’s still March madness.
February 2021
Sometimes I wonder why I keep this blog up and have often thought about just stopping, but there is something that compels me to keep it up, even if no one reads it. As I am writing today, I am reminded that when I do these recaps I feel increased gratitude and perspective as I look back on what we’ve done, survived, and enjoyed. That exercise alone is worth it for me, at least for today.
January 2021
The first half of January was full of frustrating and scary politics with the storming of the capitol, but there were a lot of small good things in our personal lives.
December 2020
Time slipped away again, here’s a quick December recap.
November 2020
In October, I think we were as relaxed as we had been during the entire pandemic. In November, we started to tighten up more. Between the election and COVID cases rising, the first week of November was a bit stressful.