After a trip to Cincinnati with our family, we decided it would be a fun to pause in Indianapolis on our way to St. Louis for our end of year trip.  You know how family getaways can be life giving and a bit exhausting. 😉  While we were in Indy, we got to spend time […]

Because this was a trip that we decided to make into Matt’s early birthday trip, we tried to do things that he wanted to do!  One of the things Matt wanted to see was Multnomah falls, about 30 minutes east of where we were staying. The weather was as Oregon as we could have expected—mostly […]

I can’t believe that it’s September already, it seems like only a few weeks ago that Amanda and I were looking forward to school letting out and all that we planned to do over the summer months. If you follow our journal you’ve definitely seen a good deal of our adventures and I’m pretty satisfied […]

We absolutely love when we get to travel, especially for work.  One of the smaller but sweeter perks is getting to enjoy local cafes and eats.  One of our favorites in Columbus is Fox in the Snow, a cafe with delicious pastries, breakfast sandwiches, and coffee.  We try to visit it every time we’re in […]

Sometimes traveling looks like planning for months, trying your best to plan out everything you want to do, and sometimes it looks like a really cheap flight from a budget airline to a place you’ve never been.  Our trip to Portland was the latter.  A pretty price and a free weekend added up to our […]

Amanda got a ukulele for Christmas and is LOVING it.  So much so that she’s been playing it daily, occasionally more than once a day if she can.  She learned some chords and has even memorized a couple of songs. To be honest though, I think her favorite thing to do is to just play around […]