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This Week on Instagram: February 1-7, 2014

This Week on Instagram Feb 1-7, 2014

February already! This week has been busy. We enjoyed our last few sunsets in Arizona before heading for the California border and Joshua Tree National Park. Being back in the west has also helped calmed my grocery shopping anxiety a bit with familiar stores (Winco! Chocolate covered cinnamon bears!), and I even shopped a sale at a Kroger store! We then immediately had problems finding where to put all my groceries. Oh well. I try.

One highlight was definitely the Gilbert, Arizona LDS temple and In-N-Out for lunch! More about that in a detailed blogpost tomorrow.

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Tuscon, Boondocking with Friends, and Saguaro National Park

This Week on Instagram January 25-31

Travel Dates: January 25-31, 2014

We’ve had a busy week! We finished up our time at City of Rocks in NM and traveled on to Tuscon, Arizona to stay with some college friends. We LOVE visiting with friends, and using their waffle irons to make breakfast isn’t so bad either. 🙂 Sam also managed to lock us out of the Airstream (spare key locked in the truck with THOSE keys in the Airstream. Yeah. We’re good like that.), but AAA came to the rescue.

After a little sight seeing, and a haircut for Jess, we ended up at Snyder Hill on some BLM land with two other Airstreamers! We met Malimish & Aluminarium who introduced us to boondocking and the boys chatted about solar power for 2 days straight. We managed to squeeze in a trip to Saguaro National Park for the 5 kids to earn their Junior Ranger Badges and to check out the largest cacti we’ve ever seen. After running out of power and waking up to a cloudy morning, we said goodbye and traveled an hour north to Picacho State Park where we could plug in. We hope to add solar panels to our set up soon, but until then we’ll just have to keep the boondocking to a minimum.

Whew. There you have it in a nutshell. Look for posts detailing our group camping and visit to the National Park coming soon!

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This Week on Instagram: January 18-24, 2014

This Week on Instagram Jan 18-24

We made it to New Mexico! After a brief stint with a sick 3 year old, we landed in Brantley Lake State Park outside of Carlsbad, New Mexico. We spent a great few days there, explored the caves, earned another junior ranger badge and enjoyed the sunrises. We also drove through White Sands National Monument and the kids enjoyed “sanding” (sledding) down the dunes. Who knew that this tucked in, fairly forgotten state could be so beautiful?
Have a great week!

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This Week on Instagram: January 11-17, 2014

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Left the bustle of Houston for some WIDE open spaces farther north in Texas. Great week visiting with friends, exploring museums, getting MAIL, and taking the kids fishing for their very first time. We leave Texas tomorrow and head towards New Mexico. Being back on Mountain Standard Time will be weird!

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This Week on Instagram: January 4-10, 2014

Cara and Andrew fought over some game they were playing in the car. This resulted in both of them getting scolded by me. Silence for a few moments while both of them pouted.

We then overheard this conversation:

Cara (trying to start up again): And my guy was knocking on the door….

Andrew (super grumpy): No Cara. I don’t want to play anymore.

Cara (all quiet and innocent): Is it because of your attitude?

Sam and I had to suppress a chuckle in the front seat. Where does she learn these things?

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This week has been cold! Our only conselation is that it has been cold EVERYWHERE so we hunkered down and had game & movie nights, touched a baby alligator, visited the Houston Temple, and bundled up for cold walks at Brazos Bend State Park in Texas. We also met up with some college friends for Orange Leaf frozen yogurt. Yum!!