• Dublin

    Dublin was a quick and fun trip to see a great friend. Dolly and Ben stayed behind and I took the quick me-time opportunity! We had amazing weather, enjoyed a delicious Irish dinner at a place called the Staircase. Lauren and I ran cross country and track together at OHSU and have lived far apart

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  • Portugal

    While reminiscing through pictures of Portugal in preparation for this post I couldn’t decided on just a few pictures. I decided this post would mainly be a photo gallery. This was such a special trip for our little family and southern Portugal is beautiful. We flew into Lisbon, drove about 45 mins west to Sintra

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  • Stuttgart, Germany

    We had only been living in the Netherlands for two months but it was getting close to Christmas and work had calmed down. Everyone was talking about the amazing Christmas markets around Europe. Feeling a tad more settled and like we needed some time to reconnect as a family we decided to plan our first

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  • We moved to Europe

    One-way: Portland to Amsterdam on October, 16th 2024. Dolly’s face accurately captures the truth of how we felt for the first several months in the Netherlands. We were excited, everything was new and truly beautiful but, it was so hard. I struggled from the guilt of uprooting our great (comfortable) life in the suburbs of

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