A day in our Lives One Year Ago

Una is still raising Cain and making Heidi mad, but Heidi can dish it out now too. I would put up videos of that, but PETA would so be after us if they saw what Una patiently endures in a day.

Dawn at Glacier Point

Okay, so it wasn't actual sunrise, which had been the goal. We watched the Ken Burns National Parks Special a month ago, so we were definitely primed for Yosemite. I remember sitting in high school, listening to teachers read from John Muir and daydreaming about rose-colored rock domes sitting majestically on their planet. Now we got to see some! As you can see, we could not get enough pictures of precariously-perched babies--how cool are they? Patagonia, take note. Or maybe we'll use them for the cover of our "traveling with toddlers" guide that we plan to write together. We learned a lot, mostly coming up with responses for all those "You guys are crazy!" we kept hearing. Oh, and we each got to chase away a bear, as well as view one up a tree one cold morning. It was truly great for us to get out and live a little, especially since our love of woods and mountains is one of the things that brought us together. Here, we feel most ourselves. And having extra diapers to change and mouths to feed doesn't change that one bit.

One half hour of our week.

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So we had a ridiculously fun time on vacation. I suppose Halloween weekend isn't the best time to go on vaca since we are in full swing with Christmas program stuff and the usual things that fill people's calendars this time of year. But maybe that made the whole weekend even sweeter. We spent two nights in Yosemite National Park (yes, with all the bears) followed by 3 in Monterey for the conference that inspired this little trip. Most of my readers probably know how unspeakably beautiful it is to watch your kids experience something verbally for the first time, as opposed to just gumming on it or sleeping through it. We didn't spend much time at the beach, but we definitely could have. Heidi would have poked around in those tide pools all week long. Reminds me of someone.

Watch out Turkey Day Trot!

Elsa is training too! At high elevation.

Home Again

More to come...

Little Angels Everywhere

And Elsa is officially crawling.

Homecoming and Saturdays at the Park

We got all dressed up to welcome Mommy and Sister home!

With the crisp mornings and warm afternoons, the weather just beckons us to visit the park. Daddy, Heidi and Elsa went to a park a little further away so Una could get a good walk. Mommy was at the PPC Christmas Program rehearsal.

We had fun too!

My heart is so full right now. God gave me an exquisite weekend with beautiful weather, old, faithful friends, and the precious memories of His hand so carefully forming my life. Thank you, husband, for considering it a priority for me to go, for taking such good care of our sweet Heidi and giving me total peace of mind about her. More to follow.