Corndogs + Avocados

I’ve been on a not-so-brief hiatus from blogging, email, my mobile phone, and the outside world in general. The end of the school year and the beginning of the school year both seem to manifest the same symptom - Liz’s disappearance from anything she does not absolutely have to do.
But I’m back! I [...]

You may have noticed that I blog in starts and fits. I suppose this is a fit. We’ve paused the catching up on the France trip back in March to bring you the following catch-up goings on from early April, mostly because I just found the chord that connects our camera to the [...]

This is a call for all your favorite eateries in the Bay Area. San Francisco, Berkeley, Lafayette, etc. Darin and I are finding sifting through all the restaurants in this part of the world completely overwhelming!
Where do you eat Italian? Thai? Indian? Pastries? Anything? We’re game [...]

So we took Flat Stanley with us on one final adventure before we had to mail him back to Utah to our niece.
On Martin Luther King, Jr. day, the three of us took BART into San Fran and hoofed about, loosely directed by an architectural self-guided tour we found online and printed out. It [...]

Ahhh, Thanksgiving. Our family is a bit not so traditional when it comes to Thanksgiving, but no matter what happens, it’s always good. Or at least funny.
Grandma Burgess was the queen of Thanksgiving, creating a coma inducing spread every year until she passed away in 1983. Grandpa wanted to remain the principal [...]