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There is great meaning in life for those willing to journey

Friday, December 06, 2013

Ralphie?

Posted by Science Teacher Mommy at 11:53 AM

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Unknown said...: all he needs is a Red Ryder BB gun.
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Bryce Canyon 2009

At some moments you feel precisely like yourself. This moment was one of those.

About Me

Science Teacher Mommy: "For a long time it seemed to me that life was about to begin, real life. But there was always some obstacle in the way, something to be gotten through first, some unfinished business, time still to be served, a debt to be paid. At last it dawned on me that these obstacles WERE my life. This perspective has helped me to see there is no way to happiness. Happiness IS the way." Alfred D. Sousa

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Reading List

A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
Following Christ
Great Expectations
House at Riverton
Light Between Oceans
Longbourne
Mircroworlds
Room
Sacred Symbols
Screwtape Letters
Shadowfell
The Agony and the Ecstasy
The Things They Carried

Summer 2016

At Temple Square Summer 2016

Kickin' It Old School Bear Lake 2016

We had some of these old school skis. What a fun place!

With My Brother in Florence March 2016

Spring Break with Cousins Oregon Coast 2016

Of the tide, this Little Miss said it was "dreadful!" So much for trying to tide pool on this trip!

Ski Day Willamette Pass 2016

This was a day off school and everything. I wish there had been more than one this winter!

Sahalie Falls Christmas Break 2015

Alesea Falls Fall 2015

Cape Perpetua 2015

Girls Camp 2015

Portland Zoo Summer 2015

The Youngling's Baptism July 2015

Cape Lookout Summer 2015

Lake Takenhitch Family Backpacking Trip 2015

This was actually Mother's Day weekend. I told my boys that this trip was all I wanted. So much fun!

Sea World Spring Break 2015

LegoLand Spring Break 2015

Pi Day Party 3.14.15

Tandem Bike Date Spring 2015

Spencer's Butte Eugene January 2015

Meeting Whitney Johnson! Time Out For Women Portland November 2014

Moving Fall 2014

This may sound dramatic, but we just moved around the corner! So much for "nomad."

Ogden Temple Open House 2014

Summer Harvest 2014

Yellowstone Summer 2014

Oregon Coast 2014

15th Anniversary Trip Newport OR

Spring Break 2014 Puget Sound

Plantboy and I left the boys with my mom at the cabin and went in search of the cabin where we spent our honeymoon. We found it!!

The Puget Sound Spring 2014

Snowshoeing on Presidents' Day 2014

One of my all time favorite pictures.

New Years' Day 2014 Florence OR

Low tide and NO wind. Who knew that January first would be better than mid-July?

Whitaker Creek November 2013

Umpqua State Park Summer 2013

Takhenitch State Park

Hiking on the Oregon Coast. Spring Break 2013

Baptism Day

With Padawn on his baptism day in Utah

Mothers' Day 2012

Our annual trek to Hendrick's Park was even better with my own mom in town.

Florence May 2012

One of the best birthdays ever!

Spencer's Butte May 2012

Go Ducks!

October 2011 at the Yellow Out game with Devery

Finding my Center

Haceta Head Sept 2011

First Day Out of School

Spring Break Staycation

Omsi Spring 2011

You've Gotta Love Eugene

Sea World

San Francisco

Crater Lake at Sunset

Crater Lake Rim

Women's Conference 2010

Having fun while Jeff recovers from a sprained ankle

Oregon Caves Spring 2010

Only our family would seek out SNOW for Spring Break

Jedidiah Smith Redwood State Park

Could my little Jedi be any sweeter?

Smith River Spring 2010

Me and Plantboy

Crescent City Beach

There is nothing like a nice, sunny day at the beach.

Tree Huggers in Training

Portland Zoo

We enjoyed the zoo with 2.5 million other Oregonians that day.

Oh, Look, It's the Fam!

Thanksgiving 2009, Farr West, Utah

Me and My Sis

We have almost nothing in common, but I still call her three times a week!

Jedi Knight's Baptism Day

The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.

Bryce Canyon April 2009

Hiking the Navajo Trail

Snow Basin February 2009

Happy Birthday Daddy!

Willamette Pass

President's Day 2009

Haceta Head Lighthouse

Our faces here tell what a perfect day this was. A once a year day.

Minnetonka Cave

I hauled Patchy all the way to the bottom of 400 steps and back up. 'Nuf said.

Wyoming

Where you go on vacation if your mother is a science teacher!

Bear Lake

Can you say Sunburn?

FDR Monument May 2008

The sunglasses are for the paparazzi.

Salt Creek Falls

Taking the kids snowshoeing is a lot of work, but on this day, the payoff was well worth it!

Oregon Coast

Oregon State Line

The Beginning

For all the cool things I've done and places I've been to, this mothering thing is the hardest and most wonderful journey of all. This was taken in May 2007.

Green Canyon

We rented snowshoes from the ORC and I squeezed into those snowpants, despite being six months pregnant. I think you could actually hear the seams ripping as I knelt down.

Snow Day

Annual Ski Day in March 2006. There was a foot of new powder dropped at The Beav just the day before.

Snow Shoe Paradise

This picture was taken in Denver just after Christmas 2006

Logan Canyon

The Kids' First Fourteener

I guess it isn't too hard: it is also the highest paved road in the Continental US.

Sunrise at Long's Peak

I didn't make it to the top, but I did have a toenail that turned black and stayed that way for nearly a year afterward. Good times.

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