Travel Tuesdays!

Yes. 

I love to travel.

I wish I could do it more often but life gets in the way.

So in honor of my love of traveling I am going to do my best with posting a travel experience {or dream} every Tuesday.

I'm going to start today with the obvious. 

The Napali Coast on Kauai's North Shore.

Here's a photo I took last year on the Kalalau trail that follows along the coastline. I swear it is the most beautiful hiking trail I've ever been on.

The strenuous 2-mile hike leads you to Hanakapiai Beach which is a gorgeous secluded beach with a fresh water stream running to it. The stream is the perfect place to cool off and gather your bearings for the hike back to town. 

My husband and I decided our son was old enough to hike it. Here he is enjoying Hanakapiai Beach.

Here's a look at the trail hiking in.

Where is the most beautiful trail you've ever hiked?

Randomness...and a start of something new!

I'm slowly making my way back into the gym. I'm trying to take it nice and slow because I:

(1) Haven't worked out on a regular basis in over 2 months! Yikes!

(2) Don't want to reinjure myself working out too hard because I am forty-*cough* years old

(3) Because I want to run in the Run Wild for a Child 5K/10K at the end of this month...and you know how I've been cursed of late. Everytime I sign up for a race or an event I get hurt! So I am simply going to show up and register the day of the event. How's that for smart thinking?

Here are a few digital pages I created over the past few days.

I've been wanting to start a weekly something on my blog and I think I've come up with one I'm excited about. 

BUT, you'll have to come back and visit me on Tuesday because that will be my first weekly post of my something new!

Any guesses on what it could be? 

Here's a hint:

It's related to something I love to do and it's not scrapbook-related or camping-related.

Congratulations to the World Series Champs SF Giants!

I would've loved to have gone to today's parade celebrating the SF Giants World Series win but  it was still exciting watching it all on TV today.

Although I've been an Oakland A's fan for over 20 years I'm still a baseball fan and totally got caught up in the frenzy of the magic happening within this team.
I feared the beard.
I  experienced torture baseball.
But these guys beat the odds and became World Champions.

What a great day for San Francisco and Bay Area baseball fans.

Way to go, Giants!

November? Really?

No, I did not fall off the face of the planet.

I haven't had a chance to blog because I was horribly sick for over a week and all of a sudden Halloween was upon me. 

Here are a few pictures from Halloween. Darren was a Jedi warrior sans the light saber.

The cast of characters Halloween night: Bobafette, Pimp Daddy {LOL}, Peter Pan and the Jedi Warrior.

Darren also started his first season of basketball. After only 4 practices they had their first game this past weekend. Oh boy, these boys have a lot to learn!

Proud Dad:

I managed to make this banner last week while in the recuperating stage of being sick. 

It's my Thanksgiving banner and it's hanging happily over my fireplace mantle.

Only 24 more days until Thanksgiving! Yikes!

12 years ago today

the hubby and I got hitched. Well, I wouldn't call it hitched since we had 120 of our closest family and friends and partied like it was 1999. Well, technically, it was 1998. 

Here's to another 12 years together.

Fall break is over already???

So out of the 14 days of fall break I was home for exactly 5 of those days. I'll chalk up this school break as the busiest ever!

We got home from our 5-day camping trip on Saturday afternoon and I was on the road again Sunday morning at 7:30am. Road tripped it down to Disneyland for the week. All of the Halloween decorations inside of the park make me giddy. I guess I'm still a kid at heart.

Check out these candied apples:

And these carved pumpkins:

I thought it never rained in Southern California? 

{our first day in the park in the late afternoon}

We ended up leaving the park and waited out the next day as well due to rain, and went back to the park the following 2 days to warm weather. Ahh!!!

The boys wore their hats into the park. Are they cool or what?

Only a little more than 2 weeks until Halloween! What are you going to dress up as?

my drive-by blog post

So we got back from camping today and will be heading back out tomorrow morning for a surprise trip down to Disneyland with Darren, my partner in crime Ginger and her 2 boys. We aren't telling the boys where we are headed and we won't confirm said destination until they either see the Disneyland exit sign on the freeway or the park itself when we pull up. :-)

I have been off of my soft ankle cast and have managed to pull off camping, 1/2 day at the Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk and a 1-mile walk without making it any more worse for the wear! I'm not sure what 3 days of walking around Disneyland will do but I'm willing to find out!

Here are a few digi pages I made last week since I always feel the need to post pictures here!

OK- I'm off and running again!...

Be prepared for lots of photos upon my return.

Have a fantastic week!