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Im in Oahu in Honolulu, Hawaii. It’s still hard to believe! All my hard work, and my dreaming has paid off and I’m here. I packed the day before I left. Becca met us at our house around noon Wednesday afternoon. We all went out to eat pizza with my family, and Adam and Becca […]

Islands, North America

October 12, 2012

Day 1: Oahu, Hawaii – I’m here!

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Back in August, we took a family vacation down to TN and then to FL. We stopped in TN just for the weekend and surprised Sarah with Megan for her birthday, and I got to have Adam meet us there. We all stayed in a little cabin in Pigeon Forge. 🙂 It was an amazing […]

North America

September 20, 2012

Smoky Mountains, TN – August 2012

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Well I really did this back in July, but totally forgot about putting the video up! So here it is. Back in July we went with the Kennedys up to Little Falls again and went rock climbing and cliff jumping. I’d put the rock climbing videos up but that gets boring to watch after a […]

North America

September 19, 2012

Little Falls, NY – July 2012

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This weekend my family took a trip out to the Catskills. We usually go up to the Adirondack Mountains, but we decided to do something different. We brought all of our kayaks in the truck and camped at North South Lake. We got there Friday morning and set up camp, and then headed to the […]

North America

July 2, 2012

Camping in the Catskills

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I had an absolute fantastic weekend. A friend came over to hang out with the family and we packed so much into just a few days that it’s hard to remember everything we did, talked and laughed about! 🙂 We went fourwheeling, rode in my friend’s jeep with the top down with my parents as […]

North America

May 29, 2012

Memorial Day Weekend

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This weekend was our church’s Pathfinder Camporee which in itself was a great time. 🙂 The last day, after the camporee, a few friends and Sarah and I decided to go and try to find a cliff jumping place we had heard about. We only had vague directions, but we headed off into the woods […]

North America

May 21, 2012

Letchworth State Park Trek, NY

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(Forgive the video quality and shakiness. Ipods aren’t great, and hanging on the edge of the cliff doesn’t lend to easy videoing!) We trekked up to the Adirondack Mountains this weekend with some good friends of ours. 🙂 We camped out on the ground Saturday night at the base of Chapel Pond’s rock climbing slab. It […]

North America

May 7, 2012

Rock Climbing 800ft. in Adirondack Mtns, NY

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We went on a top notch chopper ride today! A good friend of ours invited us to come flying on his job today so we flew to Connecticut’s coast from Utica, NY to inspect a gas line route. We got in plenty of laughs along the way… VERY many that my cheeks still hurt from […]

North America

May 3, 2012

Helicopter Ride to CT

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My family and I left over a week ago for a vacation we’d planned last summer. We drove. First to Arkansas and oklahoma to visit cousins, and then to Arizona to stay there for a week and now we’re in Colorado. It has been so nice to have family time so far out in the […]

North America

May 23, 2011

Vacation to the West

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