Early one (almost) spring, Sunday morning, I woke up and had an itch to explore someplace new! Even though there were local trails I still have yet to explore, I had my eye on a couple Illinois trails that featured waterfalls (according to All Trails App) and with the recent rains, I figured it would […]
Katie and I decided that in 2018 we were going to make it a point to hike as much of the Ozark Trail as we possibly could. Would we be able to hike in one continuous allotted amount of time? No. Would we be able to hike in “order” or from north to south or […]
If you are struggling to find just right Christmas gifts this season, let me encourage you to give the gift of adventure or experience. Instead of buying things to take up space; spend money on memory making opportunities. Those memories will last a lifetime. We have been able to do this a couple times in […]
Repetition with a bit of the unexpected is what you can count on during an adventure with my mom. Aren’t the trees beautiful. It’s just the perfect weekend to look at the leaves. Jess look at the leaves. That skirt is great deal. I think I am going to buy it. I want a turkey […]
This is going to be a short trail review over Shepherd’s Mountain Trail that Katie and I did on Thursday evening. I’m going to go ahead and do this now because we both said we didn’t think we would do it again anytime soon. LOL Because of the fall hiking challenge that we are […]
Aaron and I set out this past weekend with the good intentions of checking out the Japanese Festival at the Botanical Gardens with the backup plan being the Greek Festival. We were going to head out early and then I wanted to go a little further north and check out a trail from the book […]
I am a football fan. I’ll watch any football game but I am a Dallas Cowboys fan. Have been for probably 25 years or so. The good years of Troy Aikman and Emmitt Smith and then the not so good years. I remember the STL Cardinals then the years without a local team. Next came […]
You know it’s going to be a good day when you roll over in bed and ask your husband to take a hike with you and the kids that morning before he goes to work, and his response is “yes!” So 30 minutes later, the 6 of us (Yukon came too) were headed towards Hawn […]
This blog is changing how I live my life. This past weekend I had no “had to do plans” so normally I would piddle around the house, watch Netflix, or do nothing noteworthy. Aaron was also available so I felt like I should take advantage of it. I felt like I should do something on […]
Well we survived The Great Solar Eclipse of 2017 and I am thankful we were able to spend the day the way we wanted and not at school. Being school employees, I was a little bummed that Caroline and I were going to have to spend our time during the eclipse herding students around the […]
