We have been to a handful of US national parks but Kootenay National Park, British Colombia was our first in Canada and there were some definite differences. The scenery was beautiful! The folks that live in those parts are given a high bar for other places to match.
Our family has been gearing up for a roadtrip for about a year now and the moment has almost come.
People own pigs for a variety of reasons but mainly people raise pigs for meat. We chose to raise ours as pets! Growing up I had a pig for a short time and it made quite an impression on me. I always hoped that when I grew up and got a place of my own […]
There are many new places we are discovering as we explore the local area. Of course we had to find the local berry places to pick from. Our strawberry plants produce in late summer and into fall at Crow Farm. In the beginning of spring we searched and found a place where we could pick […]
As the warm weather of summer came upon us Justin and I have been working hard to get our To Do list mostly checked off during the week so we can get out and have fun on the weekends with the girls. We have just entered the world of life off the farm!
Though traveling and exploring has been a new thing for us here since we’ve moved to Crow Farm, we recently had a big trip to the East Coast that we couldn’t miss. My little sister got married!! It was a glorious trip finally seeing family after over 2 years!
As you may have read earlier in our blog posts (LINK) in preparation to coming home and prior to the pandemic we were going to challenge ourselves to decrease our trash waist in an effort to help our planet and get into some better habits with where we bought our food from. However, pandemic’s change […]
I feel very fortunate that our family has basically been most of the way quarantined for the past 6 months on our road trip! We were already used to being in tight quarters with one another and had the homeschooling thing already going. However, the parts of home that we were looking forward to the […]
The first couple weeks we basically didn’t leave Crow Farm besides running furniture or food errands. There was just SO much to do to move in and get settled. It didn’t help that there was a pandemic going on. This was our first weekend as just our family so we took a day to explore […]
As so many others are feeling during the pandemic, we were needing some outdoor time to uplift our spirits. Before the stay at home order was in place for Oregon (March 21st), our family decided to go on a hike at our local arboretum where there are many trails many of which are wide.
