The Nelson Narrative

Some of our highlights of the year include: The girls turned 16 and got their driver's licenses. Whoo-hoo! We took a spring break trip to Kauai. What a beautiful place. And I’m heading there again tomorrow (I will already be there when this posts) on a girls’ trip to celebrate my friend's 60th birthday, which was last October. We saw some great concerts:  Jim Gaffigan (so funny), Billy Joel ( bucket list), Air Supply and Led Zeppelin and Queen tribute bands. The girls started their junior year of high school, except Kayley is doing running start so she is actually attending a local college full time. In September I took a girls' trip to Napa. It was my first time there and we had a great time.                                                                          ...

  Happy New Year!  I’ve decided to try blogging again this year. I’m determined to keep this thing alive until the girls graduate high school. I’m thinking of trying to blog most days of the year, but that’s probably very unrealistic.  And I’m starting of the year with trip to Hawaii so I’m trying to schedule some posts ahead of time.  We’ll see how it goes.

I guess I took a bit of a blogging break.  I only blogged three times last year and this will be my first post so far this year.  I just haven’t been in the mood but now suddenly I am.  We’ll see how long it lasts. Where to even begin?  A lot has happened since I last blogged.  The girls are about to turn 16, have jobs and are on the verge of getting their driver’s licenses.  We took an amazing trip to Bryce Canyon, Zion National Park, the Grand Canyon, Lake Powell and Las Vegas last summer.  We celebrated our 17th anniversary and are closing in on our 18th.  We attended some great concerts, did some fun hikes and have had lots of fun date nights, game nights and girl’s/guy’s nights out.  Ok, I guess that’s not all that much but whatever.  So, I guess to start off my 2024 blogging, I will recap 2023: I turned 54 in January. For President's Day weekend we went to Crescent Bar and from there Paul and Kayley went skiing at Mission Ridge and...