Latest Weekend Adventure.

We hiked to Boston Lot Lake this Saturday. It's about a mile and a half hike right behind our housing complex, so no driving was needed to get started on this adventure (I love where we live location -wise). So the below picture is me showing you our backyard, essentially.




Claire can, of course, never get enough of the camelback.
These berries are EVERYWHERE! I have thought they were currents, but after tasting them yesterday, I'm sure there not.
Our "new" Trek baby backpack. My sweet/awesome neighbor/ward member is always giving us everything we could ever need/want and gave this to us free of charge!
Boston Lot Lake. They say Moose frequent the area...


Claire has found her running legs!

Me trying to be creative taking pictures of the one and only.

Who also happens to know she is the one and only. Ah we love her.

pickin blueberries!

We had a grad ol' time picking blueberries on this quaint property next to the Connecticut river. There were tons of varieties as well as mosquitoes, but I am enjoying eating my blueberry shakes and muffins as I scratch myself to death. Only $2/ lb and we pick 5 lbs and Claire ate another pound on her own as we picked.



Resting and enjoying the view after picking.

A Historical Week.

These are pictures of us scouting out (and not in any order) the Sugarbush Maple and cheese farm, Shaker village, Plymouth, and Boston's freedom trail. We finally got our "new" car and promptly put over 400 miles on it in two days (Claire is going a bit crazy from her disrupted nap schedule).

We have had a blast. It is really fun to be around so many different sites to see and to be able to see it all with Lyndon before we kiss him goodbye for school.

Highlights? Hmmm, all of it. However, I have discovered that I love, love, love aged (4 years) horseraddish chedder. The after-taste of it is the best. Sort of like wasabi.

Boston was not only fun because of the history, but also remembering how fun it was with the Oscarson cousins. However, I realized that I missed a few things when I was eleven, so seeing it again at 27 was even better. We have yet to go to China town there (stay tuned).

On another note, our Bishop was President Calrson's AP in Tiawan and is a relative of Dick and Ann Finlacesen (no clue how to spell that), who are friends of G-parents Stubbs....small world in the church.

The tour

So after recording this, I realized that I sound sad and, well spoiled...and so I am or rather have been my whole life-which is why this new place took some adjusting. Sure I had lived with cockroaches on my mission (I have tally marks in my white handbook for about a hundred that I killed), but this is different, right?

My neighbor here has a sign in her house that says, "Enjoy this moment...for this is your life." Ah, so true, and I am enjoying it, now that our belongings have arrived and we have Internet in our place. Now if we could just get a car so that my spoiled life style can be complete....oh wait....I did say I could be a minimalist, but I've got to ease into this thing, I just can't have the whole rug pulled out from under me at once!

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And here is Claire enjoying a little down time...

(Picts out of order, but oh well)

Bridge built before 1806 at Solomon Mack's farm
Claire enjoying our empty place.


hampton beach

good bye to the west Hello to the East...
Hello and good bye to the T.F. temple (we ended up getting to go on the tour! )
Hello and good bye McCall.
Hello Sharron Vermont, Joseph Smith's birthplace.

Taking a breather

I have been packing a little over a month now. I'd pack a couple boxes a day and then take it easy. The number of boxes I pack each day has risen, and so has the idea that I never want to pack this many boxes again. I have a sense that my life will be a nomadic one and I need to become a minimalist ( I have moved every year for the past 8 years). And, I think I'm okay with the idea. I only wear about three shirts, one long pair of pants, and a couple pair of shorts all the time...I have tons of other clothes, but I just don't wear them enough to count.

I love travelling and Lyndon wants to move to Australia after med-school, so that is reason enough to get rid of most of our possessions-no? Of course this minimalisting will get tougher as Claire and possibly other kids to come decide that they can't part with their possessions, but I'm willing to negotiate with them- "Claire you can keep that barbie or go explore the jungles of Thailand to discover medicinal properties in tree bark, it's up to you.." She'd go for it, I'm sure...

Sweet land of Liberty

This year in the provo parade when the Army trucks drove by I got a tug at my heart. The back of the huge trucks are usually chuck full of service men and this year they were empty or contained only about two guys. - Thanks, for fighting for freedom, everyone's freedom.-