{Beautiful Places}

Sean fixed up the computer this last week and to celebrate I decided to make a new folder of pictures we've taken to be the backgrounds for our computer. I am in complete awe of all the wonderful places that we've been to in the last 6 years or so. It's astounding. this world is a beautiful place and I am humbled to have witnessed so many beauties.
Our background folder has over 80 pictures, I'll just share a few of them. These were all taken either by Sean or I.

Ano Nuevo State Park, CA 

Belize 

 Red Rock Canyon, UT 

Butchart Gardens, Canada 

Butano State Park, CA 

Red Butte Gardens, UT 

Merrimere Falls, WA 

Garden of the Gods, CO 

Canada 

Crators of the Moon, ID

Leavenworth, WA

Leavenworth, WA

Dallas, TX

Caribbean Sea

Badlands, SD

Caen, France

Switzerland

Tossa de Mar, Spain

Cascade Springs, UT

"For the beauty of the earth, for the beauty of the skies... This our hymn of grateful praise"

{"I don't want blue hair!"}

Ever since Evette has been little, she's slept with this yellow blankie that her Auntie Rachel crocheted for her. It is basically a requirement for her to have it in order to sleep. She still gets upset when I put it in the washing machine.

Within the last 7 or 8 months, she's been adamant that the yellow blanket is carefully draped across her pillow and she sleeps on top of it. We've been woken up in the middle of the night a couple times to her crying because her blanket shifted during her slumber and was no longer entirely covering her pillow. It's serious, friends.

Well, this afternoon, she fell asleep in the car on the way home from a scout thing with Daddy. Miriam was struggling to fall asleep in their room already, so we decided to put her in our bed to finish up her nap. On top of our bed right now, we have a blue crocheted blanket for extra warmth during these colder nights. Sean carried her in and placed her on our bed and I covered her with the blue blanket.

She woke up as we were putting her to bed, but we told her to go back to sleep and finish her nap. After we took out her pigtails, she laid back down. About 1 minute later she came out and asked for her yellow blanket. We declined and explained that we couldn't go get it from her room because Miriam was trying to fall asleep. She was a little upset, but went back into our room. About 30 seconds later she came out again, very upset, and through tears said, "But I don't want blue hair!!!"

That poor baby thought that her beautiful "yellow" hair (which she loves - the other day she told Miriam, "Miriam! You getting beautiful yellow hair like me!" so cute..) was going to turn blue because of the blanket! 

Sweet baby. Her beautiful yellow hair because of her magic yellow blanket. I love it.

Here with the blanket at 8 months old....

1 year old

15 months old

1.5 years old

2 years

2.5 years

3 years

{MLK exploration - Pescadero and Beaches}

Sean had MLK day off so we decided to go exploring as a family along the coast.

Our first stop was in the tiny town Pescadero. We went there a few months ago on a Sunday drive, but we didn't do too much exploring at that point. It was a fun adventure. It's a tiny tiny tiny town with a few quirky shops and a few restaurants. We poked around and then stopped for brunch. It was fun just to soak up the beautiful weather.

We then drove down the coast and stopped at any beach we wanted to. It was great!

This one was very rocky with steep dropoffs. So of course, we climbed down with both of our babies!

Evette made a fishing pole out of a stick, yarn, and orange rind earlier this week and was excited to be able to go fishing in the ocean. Here she is fishing in a little puddle.

Our next stop was off the side of the road with a teeny tiny path that looked like it lead to a quiet, beautiful beach! 

Our path was blocked by a giant pipe and a bunch of debris and a steep drop off. Oops. It was fascinating because you couldn't see this at all from the road, but we went down a little bit, turned a corner, and boom! Road blocked. Well, it was an adventure.

And then our last stop was at Pomponio Beach. It was the perfect last stop. Pretty quiet, soft sand, and a river to explore in.

Miriam was in heaven and she hardly ate any sand! (It's the little things) She loved digging through the sand and splashing in the water. She's turning into such a little explorer.

The water was pretty cold, but Miriam would not be deterred, she wanted to be in that water!

Happiness.

It was a beautiful day.