Letterboxing in Catalina State Park / February 14, 2014 This was our first Valentine’s Day we’ve ever been able to spend together as a married couple! We celebrated by visiting Catalina State Park. There are a lot of letterboxes hidden around the trails, so we just chose a few and went for a late afternoon hike…
Hello February! Curtis says this is his least favorite month, because it’s so cold and we’re just ready for warmer weather. (Yes, we feel that way in Arizona too. My sympathy goes out to family and friends in Iowa who just had yet another snowfall and snow day, but once you get used to 110…
It feels so strange to title this post “January adventures.” After surviving 20 Iowan winters, this feels nothing like “January” to me. Maybe it’s the longest and nicest October I’ve ever lived through. I’m not complaining about this of course ~ now that I’ve been here though I don’t think I can ever go back….
It was the Saturday after we returned to AZ after our “reverse snowbirding” vacation. Our Brit friend Mitch had invited us to go on a peak hike with him and our group of friends. He told me that people who were “not as in shape as I am” had done this hike before, and was…
Here’s a photo journal of our Christmas break and first Christmas together! The day after Curtis’ last final, we flew back home to Iowa to spend a couple weeks with our families. Iowa welcomed us with an ice storm that day, and then a snow storm the next – a cruel transition from the beautiful…
The excitement of this year took off with a bang right at the stroke of midnight on New Year’s Eve, Curtis got down on one knee and whispered to me, “will you marry me?” The cheers of our families around us went from “Happy New Year!” to “They’re finally getting married!!” And with that, the…