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A family of five, getting outside everyday
Kayaking, hiking, camping, dirt road driving
📍South Bay Area, California
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Look for the light. This trail was just what we n

Look for the light.
This trail was just what we needed: tall redwood trees, sun streaming through the forest, woodpeckers and mushrooms galore.
This is the Redwood Trail to the Blue Springs Trail it’s a 1.1 mile loop through the middle of a redwood forest. Mount Madonna County Park is full of amazing trails.
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Another close to home gem of a trail. Harvey Bear

Another close to home gem of a trail. Harvey Bear Ranch has so many great trails. This is the Coyote Ridge Trail, the whole loop is about 4 miles but we only did about 1.5 miles. We are working on building up our hiking stamina after we didn’t hike for almost a year because our youngest has juvenile arthritis.
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Yesterday we played in the rain. Winter in our are

Yesterday we played in the rain. Winter in our area can bring rain and we are so thankful when it rains because we are in a drought and need all we can get. I love how my kids love to be out in the rain, they got soaked and cold and then came inside and warmed up with some hot coco.
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Happy New Year! Here is one of our favorite close

Happy New Year! Here is one of our favorite close to home trails. It walks along a river and waterfalls and is always green. We caught the last little bit of fall foliage and the beginning of the ladybug hibernation (they clump together along the side of the trail by the hundreds.
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Going through my photos from this year to choose m

Going through my photos from this year to choose my top 9 helped remind me of all the good times we had, all the adventures we went on, even if it wasn’t as many or as far this year. We made lemonade out of a dumpster fire.
1-playing in the snow at Henry Coe State Park
2-Our trip to Mount Shasta
3-Visiting the Calla Lilly Valley in Big Sur
4-Discovering Mount Madonna County Park, close to home and magical
5-All of our tailgate dinners, I don’t miss restaurants at all
6-Marin Headlands adventure
7-Off-roading in our truck
8-Time in the Forest of Nisene Marks
9-Our favorite close to home trail opening back up after a summer of wildfire
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We have been adventuring locally recently and we h

We have been adventuring locally recently and we have discovered so many new and amazing local trails. Sometimes I can get so focused on going to the big fun well known places that I forget about all the beautiful places within 50 miles of us!
This is the Loop trail at Mount Madonna Park (which currently has no entrance fee). It had over a dozen mushroom varieties, tons of banana slugs and a few California newts, plus that glorious forest smell!
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Merry Christmas from our yearly tradition of crowd

Merry Christmas from our yearly tradition of crowding in our bed to take a photo...which quickly dissolves into tickles and wrestling! May your day be merry and bright wherever this year finds you.

Merry Christmas Eve from us to you! Here are some

Merry Christmas Eve from us to you! Here are some highlights from our family Christmas gift exchange. This year we decided to do more toys than we have ever done in a while. We have had a hard year, the kids are only getting older so our days of toys are waning. So we got them things we knew they would love and bring joy. We tend to give experiences and projects and books but this year needed a giant teddy bear and Rexy from @howrediculous and big nerf guns and joy upon joy.

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