We stayed closer to home to celebrate our anniversary and played tourist in our hometown. It was slightly embarrassing to admit to visitors that we hadn’t experienced some of Portland’s main attractions. I researched a few locations from travel websites and off we went without kids.
We had an amazing time in Sunriver for our anniversary last year. I recorded several video clips to commemorate the weekend, but it took me several tries to get a finished video put together due to technical difficulties.
Our stay last year was the first—and last—time we enjoyed Dave and Christine Vernier’s Sunriver condo with just the two of us. We’ve stayed there five times and it’s bittersweet that the condo is going up for sale. It’s been an amazing benefit to Vernier employees for over twenty years.
For every Fred Meyer, Target, Toys R Us, and Barnes and Noble I visit, I must browse to toy aisle—specifically for LEGOs. You never know when you could run into a deal on these expensive sets.
Song credit to REBRICKULOUS
Our family finished the Whole30 challenge for the second time and I reflected on its benefits. I also think about why it’s healthy to break our routines regularly so that we can consider whether our routines are still relevant to our lives.
Techniques and tricks I tried in this video for my vlog experiment:
The creativity of children continues to remind me of how simple fun and joy can be.
It’s the small things that lead to big things. We started teaching our kids how to do laundry when they were four. Partially out of desperation because of the amount of laundry with three kids and two adults.
Laundry is a game each week. We bury them in all the clean laundry, they have a blast sorting, making jokes about underwear, folding it, then putting it away.
The cherry on top was exploring a new indoor playground: Out of this World Pizza. We thought about going to Safari Sam’s, but it was no longer in business.