Williamsburg, Virginia
Labor Day Weekend, 2024 When I was in elementary school, my class took a field trip to Colonial Williamsburg, and the experience, for whatever reason,...
Puerto Morelos, Mexico
January 2024 Almost every year Rebecca’s parents rent a villa in Mexico, hire a chef, and invite our family, and her brother’s family to come...
Boulder, Colorado
June, 2023 After returning to the USA from Abu Dhabi, I had some leave stacked up, so before we had even moved back in to...
All over the UK on our way out of UAE
April 28 – May 07, 2023 At the end of April we bid adieu to Abu Dhabi to head back home to Virginia. On the...
Cairo, Egypt
February 15 – 19, 2023 One of my bucket list items has been to see the pyramids. In elementary school, we learned about Ancient Egypt,...
Desert Camping
December 2022 When we first moved to the UAE, desert camping was something we added to our list of things to do. So we went...
Thanksgiving in Muscat, Oman
November 23 – 26, 2022 This Thanksgiving we took a short family trip to Muscat, Oman. It’s a 5-ish hour drive from Abu Dhabi. We...
Munich, Germany (R&R #2)
July 11 – 20, 2022 For our second R&R we wanted to go somewhere with nice outdoor spaces, good views, hiking options, but also with...
Tbilisi, Georgia (and Kazbegi)
May 01 – 08, 2022 With a week off for Eid, and six daily flights from Dubai, Tbilisi was an obvious holiday choice. Georgia is...
R&R Addendum – Max’s Photos
Max got a digital camera from Mimi and Bumpa (Rebecca’s parents) a while ago, and he’s never had a good opportunity to use it other...
R&R Part 3 – Zanzibar
13 – 20 August, 2021 Our final week of R&R was spent in Zanzibar, Tanzania. After all the go-go-go of Nairobi and Safari, we felt...
R&R Part 2 – Nairobi
6-13 August, 2021 We stayed in Nairobi for two nights before we flew to the Maasai Mara, and then stayed in Nairobi another week after...
R&R Part 1 – House in the Wild
After a year in Abu Dhabi, it was time to get away and do something fun. Luckily, work affords us with rest and relaxation (R&R)...
Dubai Trip
May 10, 2021 As the summer heat began to creep in, and COVID started to (slowly) creep out, we decided to take a weekend trip...
Trip to the Fossil Dunes
February 19, 2021 The weather is starting to warm up here in the UAE, and we’re trying to cram in as much as we can...
Family Trip to Al Ain, Abu Dhabi, UAE
January 2021 With the move to Abu Dhabi complete, quarantine over, and a few months to actually settle in to our new home, it was...
Mother’s Day Photoshoot
With the COVID quarantine in full effect, we had to bring the photographer to us this year. So we had a social distanced mini session...
Gabriel’s Newborn Photo Shoot
Just as we did for Maxwell at two weeks of age, we took Gabriel to get some professional photos taken. We had such an excellent...
Family Vacation to Puerto Morelos, Mexico
2019 has been one of the coldest years on record for the US. Rebecca’s side of the family, living in Minnesota, was getting hammered with...
Zion and Grand Canyon National Parks
Summer of 2018, the family took a hiking trip to Zion National Park. We have some friends who live in Ogden, so we invited them...
Mother’s Day Photo Shoot
Because this was her first Mother’s Day as a mother, I thought it would be nice to get my wife a family photo shoot as...
Max goes international!
In May 2018 work was sending me to Vienna, Austria, and though Becky and I have been there a number of times, we wanted to...