After a twelve hour day filled with dives, swimming with more sea turtles, chapter quizzes and a final exam…It’s OFFICIAL! Brian and I are now PADI Certified Open Water SCUBA DIVERS!! Hooray!!! I’ve got a handful of more stories to share, but I’ll have to post more later. I think the anxiety over the test […]

In a crazy nutshell…the kids are playing at the beach while monkeys ransack our kitchen while I’m 45 ft. under being circled by two sharks! If you believe that this could really happen all at once, keep reading! This is what happened… My cousin, Gina, showed up this week! Gina is like a little sister […]

In the late afternoons when the heat isn’t as intense, or at night when Buddy and Dori are hanging out on the ceiling above me, I’m working away on a couple new book projects. Yep, a couple! I’m so excited! The contracts have not been finalized so I can’t say much more than that right […]

It’s 9:30pm here, and I just got back from a full day of scuba diving off the reefs of Koh Phi Phi (an island that is one of the top ten places in the world to scuba dive). Brian and I are going through the scuba certification process, and today was my turn to leave […]

Over the weekend, we did a sunset snorkeling adventure and ended our evening on a deserted beach. It felt as if we reached the end of the world. What would you do if you felt like you’d reached the end of the world? We felt like flying! Photo Recipe for all you recipe lovers! How […]

Happy Monday morning! As I write this blog, I feel like I’m hosting the next episode of “Jungle Wildlife Meets Our Family” episode. 🙂 But how can you not post these things when your in the thick of it? I love to hear that a number of you are sharing the blog posts with your […]