Austin Anomaly 2015 – Part 2

https://web.archive.org/web/20160323230612im_/http://togethersimply.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/wpid-20150220_163321_02.jpg Austin. The day of the Anomaly. And the weather was *perfect* for it! Low 70’s and cloudy. Cloudy wouldn’t normaly be considered perfect but when you are fixing to spend the next 4-5 hours walking all over the city – with 6 children – looking at your phone, cloudy makes it a whole lot…

Austin Anomaly 2015 – Part 2

Austin. The day of the Anomaly. And the weather was *perfect* for it! Low 70’s and cloudy. Cloudy wouldn’t normaly be considered perfect but when you are fixing to spend the next 4-5 hours walking all over the city – with 6 children – looking at your phone, cloudy makes it a whole lot better!…

Austin Anomaly 2015 Part 1

October 2014 our lives changed forever. The voice said it was more than just a game, of course that’s what a programmer would say. We dutifully read what each side stood for – the green Enlightened and the blue Resistance. And we chose. Drives to town and trips to the Little Big City became hunts…

Camp setup

A quick post on our camp setup.  Its been almost 3 weeks, and we finally have figured out a decent, working setup for us.  From the door of the "kitchen canopy".  Yes, there are many times we squeeze 7 chairs in here...  very cozy!  Excuse the dirt on the floor - literally!  We are camping and have no grass…

Day 2 camping

"Faith causes us to step out and say or do what God places in our hearts, but fear causes us to timidly stay under control and domination."Joyce Meyer Ministries status update today.  Wow how fitting!!  How many people have not followed His prompting because of fear?  He says He will give us the desires of…

Setting up camp

Long day.  Starting with a trip to the er.  Always fun.  No worry everyone is fine, or will he in a few more days.  The two oldest started showing red bumps on the feet and hands.  Poison oak or ivy quickly ruled out as were ant bites.  Darn Google, they match all the symptoms for…

On our way

A very heavy trailer and many emotions/thoughts running through my mind.  Mr. Man is in "the mode" - you know the "yes I have been up for 24 hours, have packed and loaded all of our belongings but I refuse to pull over and sleep because we are only 4 hours away (and then we…

It has been decided…

We are going back.Day 2, no water... Again... Sigh. There is a leak on the ranch so the water has to stay off until it is fixed.  As much as I am getting tired of this, its giving us good practice, right? :P. So let's recap - in the last 6 months, we have learned…