Health And Wellness
I am a certified holistic health coach and naturally healed my body from debilitating fibromyalgia. We maintain a wellness lifestyle on the road. Health and wellness include ALL areas of your life including physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual. ~Ann

A Happy Father’s Day 🙂
On Father’s day, I celebrated the hot, handsome, huggable, happy, hilarious, handy, hero, hunk that is my husband and the most amazing father to our boys. To know Mike is to adore Mike. He does not meet a stranger and is one of the most compassionate people I’ve ever met. He has the ability

Yosemite National Park: 2018 – Part 3
Part 3 Part 3 of this story is not ALL about Yosemite, as we are not crazy enough to venture into this very-heavily-visited national park on a holiday weekend. Ok, we ARE crazy, but of a very different kind! We knew after the long and hard day hikes we had done, especially those in

Yosemite National Park: 2018 – Part 2
It was nothing short of surreal to take my kids to this amazing place just before Memorial Day last year. It has changed quite a bit. Stuff has been renamed and the crowds are absolutely ridiculous in the valley. We got in super early one morning to do the stuff in the Valley, so

Yosemite National Park: 2004
Part One Back in 2004, Mike and I headed out west for a couple of weeks to visit with friends in San Jose and go to Yosemite. It was like nothing I had ever seen! So incredible and amazing and completely awe-inspiring. It’s a place you must experience for yourself, as images do it little

Kings Canyon & Sequoia National Parks : 5/18
We headed to Kings Canyon & Sequoia in mid May. They are technically separate parks but they are joined together physically. It was pretty amazing. Actually, it was quite mind-blowing. These trees are ginormous!! We could put at least 4 of our houses in many of them. That’s insane! If you’ve never seen these

A very long, very overdue update
Yes, it’s been a while. A very loooooong time, in fact, since I’ve posted on my blog. The last time was after my friend Heidi passed away last Spring – over a year ago!! This time, it’s after my mom passed away unexpectedly from a heart attack on March 23rd in her apartment in