Hello! I’m glad you’re here!
Three awesome/crazy/adventurous/unique boys call me Momma. They are in elementary and middle school this year (Jesus, be near). I’m married to my best friend. My high school sweetheart. The best man I know. So as not to be confused, they’re one in the same. Ha! I’m so blessed that these 4 humans are my people.
I write, mostly, about my family and our adventures. One of our family values is, “Say ‘yes’ to adventure.” and we try to say yes as much as we can! We moved from Minnesota, our home of 10 years to the Seattle area two years ago. We weren’t sure this was going to be our forever home so we were trying to see and do all that we could while we were here. After these two years, though. This is our home. We miss our people in the Midwest something fierce, but this our place and we have thrived as a family here. The adventures are endless and being able to spend that time together enjoying the outdoors has been priceless to us. We work hard to follow the principles of Leave No Trace, even when it means giving up a good adventure or a great shot. What’s been hardest about their newest social media guidelines is that it restricts sharing specific locations. This is for good reason, we’ve seen some of our favorite places become dumping grounds for trash and overwhelmed with visitors who, unfortunately, are not good stewards of the land. For an adventure blog like this, it really complicates things. Most of the places I give specific information about will be areas that are well-known to most in the area. I’ll give more general information about other locations. Feel free to reach out to me if you have questions about a location. It feels more responsible to share this way than to just blast it on the internet, which would certainly get me more followers, but at a cost I’m not willing to accept. All that said, I hope you will be inspired to get our and adventure; whether that means getting tips for adventures we’ve done or seeking out your own.
You will see me blog about intentional parenting. Because I lived a very chaotic and confusing childhood, one that I do not want to repeat with my own children, my husband I work hard to be intentional about how we raise our boys. This spans everything from our family values to how we spend time together. Clearly, we are a family that enjoys being outdoors together but I also plan on writing some posts about the foundation of our family and how we came to building it. When you come from unstable families, you sometimes have to work a little harder to figure it all out. You just have fewer strategies to say “YES! I want to take that from my childhood and use it with my own kiddos.” Sometimes, I share about parenting and adult-ing after childhood trauma. It’s not warm and fuzzy, but it’s important work. Sharing this is part of me is so crazy vulnerable. However, after many messages from grateful readers, I know using my voice helps gives other their voice, too.
I write because I’m called to, not only by the people around me, but by a stirring in my soul that nudges (okay, sometimes shoves) me to do so. I hope you find something that you can connect to here. I’m excited to share this crazy, awesome life with you and I hope you’ll share your voice here, too. Community is just so stinkin’ amazing and together we are all so much better. I hope you’re in with me!
Photo Credit: Whitney Coudray Photography