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Only eleven days until vacation! Beaches, mountains, just a quick jaunt to visit family, I always need a few essentials for the trip. A good easy book to read, a bottle to keep the water cold and definitely snacks. No matter where we’re going, you’ll find the same things in my bag. Here are the essentials, plus a few I’m …
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Raise your hand if you have a vacation planned for the summer! *raises hand* I’m so excited I can’t stand it! Dearest Carl and I get to spend a whole week of Florida, visiting a few friends and then spending a few blissful days just the two of us, going out on the town or staying in, whatever we want! …
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Before you ask, we are not hardcore campers. When the Watkins go camping, we go for two nights to some state park or other and we do this twice a year. But it’s a beautiful twice a year. Usually it’s the two of us plus a variety of siblings-in-law and friends so there’s a crowd. That’s what makes it fun …
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It’s just a fact, Lincoln State Park produces so many memories. The good, the bad, the ugly, the funny, it all happens there. And inevitably we come home in a glow of contentment and with a flurry of leftover snacks. Here is a peek into our spectacular, technology free vacation. Our first two days at LSP were spent trying to …
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For almost as long as we’ve been married, we’ve spent a week of the summer in a cabin at Lincoln State Park. The Watkins family has been taking this vacation for as long as Dearest Carl can remember so it seemed only natural that we jump on board too. Our first trip together was only for a few days but …
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No doubt you’ve heard me mention that this September will be our 5th anniversary. Since it’s rather a big occasion, we’ll be going to Chicago for a long weekend! We plan on staying in the city overnight on our anniversary and then meeting up with my sister-in-law and her husband (who have an anniversary the weekend before ours!) for a …
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It’s my firm belief that summer should be spent reading the books you want to read. Not the textbooks or that one book that you’ve been putting off. No, whether it’s a new to you book or a book you’ve read so many times it’s falling apart, you should want to return to it on those long road trips and …
Life, Travel
So we went to Iceland. The whole experience was the most amazing of my life so far. I’ve been out of the country before on a missions trip but this was so different. We were there as tourists so while our time wasn’t relaxing at all, we saw just about everything there was to see in the area we stayed. …
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When we first decided to go to Iceland, I realized I had less than nothing in the way of winter wear. Plus I basically wear sweatpants from November to April which meant I didn’t even have cute winter clothes. What better reason than an overseas vacation in a cold place to buy some new duds that are winter appropriate right? Over …
Life, Travel
Only five days until we leave for Iceland with Bekah and our friend Andrew! I couldn’t be more excited! It’s the first big trip Dearest Carl and I will have taken and Iceland promises to be a beautiful vacation destination. We don’t have much of an itinerary because Iceland’s weather is very unpredictable so most of what we do will …
