Woodland Antics

Just south of Sydney is Coledale Beach, a perfect place to set up camp for a couple nights. The kids played as the sun peeked over the horizon... Reed wanted me to take a picture of Clay with this stick...  Little Clayton was incredibly good the entire trip.   Hes's such an easy baby, I'd love to have a million more like him.  While Ry and I prepared breakfast Reed & Fiona flew a kite.   They played so well together it was difficult to call them over to eat. It pains me to break up moments like this.   Watching surfers may be my new favorite pastime...  This guy wiping out cracked Ry and I up.. Some waves crashed on the rocks like an explosion... My handsome little flute player... (note her newly gapped tooth smile)  How fun it was to watch Fiona get all giddy when she saw a huge set of waves approaching.  "Because there's nothing more beautiful  than

On the 12th of May our little Clayton officially became an American citizen!!! He was welcomed with an American flag

"WE TRAVEL NOT TO ESCAPE LIFE, BUT FOR LIFE NOT TO ESCAPE US" We returned home at 3am this morning after a family road trip to Canberra and Sydney. It's strange how you can feel so tired and refreshed at the same time. On our journey home Fiona wrote this song... ("click" = finger snaps) There's our tent and there's the Tasman sea at sunrise.

In honor of our 9 year wedding anniversary I'm taking a glance back to our 1 year anniversary slash honeymoon in Colorado & Seattle...  We were so ahead of our time with selfies. back when a two person tent was plenty selfie with the Space Needle If I could tell those two twenty-somethings what they have in store for them over the next 8 years,  I know they'd be ecstatic.  This life is too good. Happy Anniversary to my favorite travel mate. To the North star and back again.

The evening of April 15th there was a total eclipse of the moon. {During a total lunar eclipse, the Moon's disk can take on a dramatically colorful appearance from bright orange to blood red} We walked to the bridge up the road for a peek.   Once we got home I randomly would step outside and snap a picture.   This is what I came up with...  (Mind you all of these pictures are taken directly from camera.  Nothing has been edited.) 6.30 6.38 6.45 6.50 6.58 7.14 7.28 7.42 7.49 All that in just over an hour...