Death Valley, It's A Dry Heat.

Who knew Death Valley would be quite comfortable in February? A loooong time ago, EW and I decided that before we would move away from this area, we would visit all of the sites that we had never got around to seeing. One of them was Death Valley.

EW always wanted to visit Bad Waters located in Death Valley because that is the lowest elevation in the U.S. We also went on a two mile round trip hike through Golden Canyon. The hike itself was great. I need to get rid of that extra baby weight. EW really had a work out because he was carrying Gray in the Bjorn. Gray who had the easiest ride out of all of us fell asleep during the hike. I put a video of it below.

Passport....Smashport...and also hiking.

One of our goals is to drive through Canada to visit Alaska. Now with the new travel laws you need a passport before you even think about visiting Canada.

Last week EW and I went to update our passports. Ours were well over ten years old and mine still had my maiden name Mahoney on it. Good thing we had Gray's birth certificate and SSN with us as well, who knew a 4 month old needed a passport? The clerk was really nice and even took Gray's passport picture....which sounds much easier then it actually was. Its hard to get a 4 month old to stay still and look forward for at least 5 seconds.

So now that we can scratch passports off our list we have been looking at other things to accomplish before June. One of them was to visit Red Rock Canyon, which is kind of sad it took us six years of living in Las Vegas to finally accomplish. It was actually a really nice hike, and there was still snow on the ground. We took the puppy-girls along and they loved it. There was a slight altercation with a White German Shepherd and a Chihuahua who had a Napoleon complex, but everyone made it out alive. The scenic drive thru Red Rock was gorgeous, and it made me a little sad that we never went to visit sooner :(

First Fines Family Blog

So this is my very first blog. Not so bad so far. I don't know how successful I will be at this, but I am giving it a shot. The idea for starting a blog came from my friend Root, whose blog I read all the time. She is really good at it. I doubt I will be, but I am trying it out anyways.
In three months My husband EW and I plan to start moving across the country while I hopefully begin travel nursing. We figure this will be a good way to keep our family and friends updated on our experiences along the way.
We have recently added a new addition to our family..a 22 inch LCD monitor that has fabulous pixel resolution, its kind of nice ;)
Also our other new addition is our son Graysyn he has been the greatest joy in my life so far. EW and I waited longer then most couples to have kids, and he was worth the wait. His personality is a cross between me and EW....so you know we are going to get some phone calls from his teachers in a few years.
Tentatively, I am going to try to make this blog a weekly thing. We will see how well it works out.