Category Archives: travels

get-away to santa barbara

highlights from our little get-away, in no particular order…

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soakin’ it in…

on a little santa barbara family getaway.  just lovely…  if you have never been, it is just perfection.  go someday.

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a good life…

our thanksgiving roadtrip to northern california… and just in case we missed anything — gavin and i sloppily snapped pictures with my iPhone. i dare say we took too many pictures.  but when you are in beautiful places with beautiful family – how can i resist?

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inspired in tulsa

my sister recently moved from kailua, hawaii to tulsa, oklahoma.  as always, i came home inspired.gavin wanted our “photo shoot” too – i was not quite dressed for a fancy photo shoot – and gavin was more in the mood of jumping on me, it worked out better anyways that way… this picture below just...

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lanai

my attempt at the slideshow yesterday failed – so here is a good old fashioned blog post with some pictures from mostly lanai and a few from maui.  if i could say one word about lanai – it would be incredible.  i could go back there every year for the rest of my life.  sigh………...

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vacation ii

“gavin… me too.” -me  (in response to gavin’s comment – see post below)

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vacation

“mommy, i could live here forever…” –gavin

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the roadtrip…

our roadtrip up the coast of california was all about family. time in the car as a family, and time visiting family and celebrating family.  that new song “good life” came on the radio somewhere in central california and as we drove through the golden hills as the sun started going low, we turned it...

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visitors

having visitors always is a nice excuse to see where you live with a new lens…  and in my case, to fall in love with it allllll over again.  my aunt and my cousin’s daughter are on a trip of a lifetime from kansas: over two weeks vacation including the ventura/santa barbara area, hawaii, and...

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a beautiful, freezing, relaxing way to welcome the new year.  an incredible cabin, in a beautiful setting, with sweet families.  thank you kerkhoffs for the invite.

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