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So I have been working a lot for months to figure out a way to cut cost and create a site to sell the GREAT stuff we make. If you like the new Organic Tribe Thredz logo, I have opened a cafe-press http://www.cafepress.com/organictribe store that you can by silk screened shirts and other items with our logo. I am so excited seeing it all finally come together. Now it's all about adding more items and receiving comments from all of you on what you like and what you think I'm still missing. The other hard part is figuring out how to get the site and our items out to the rest of the world. If any of you have great ideas on cheap (or FREE) marketing please shoot me an email or comment. And I know I'm beating a dead horse, but would you pass the word on to friends and family that would be AWESOME! I would love the world to see our stuff, thanks for all the support! http://organictribethredz.blogspot.com

Washington we LOVE you!!!

After a LONG pit stop in Utah we headed on to the Great North West! We LOVE Washington! We spent 4 yrs in Tacoma and started our family there! Our oldest 2 are natives. We got to WA the end of June, just in time to run a 4 day fireworks tent. It worked out nice that one of my good friends lives in the same town that we sold fireworks. So we got to catch up with Jamie and meet her new (to us) hubby Corey and see their kiddos! They took the kids to play and had us over for a BBQ.

Then we headed over to our old stomping grounds in Tacoma. We stayed with our friends Andre and Joan and their son Dominic. Joan and I had a nice night out..... dinner and walked around downtown. We found some good local music to listen to. Another day we checked out the farmer's market and took the kids to play on the Ruston Way walkway and beach. We drove around town talking about the good ole days and visited our favorite beach in Steilacoom, Sunnyside Beach, where there was lots of HUGE jellyfish washed up to check out. We also made it to Point of Defiance Park Zoo. The kids loved playing with Dominic and all his cool Lego's and electronics! Joan and Andre introduced us to a SUPER funny show Flight of the Conchords! The adults had a nice night out to a yummy Mexican place and we went to downtown to look at all the cool glass art and marina. 

After our great visit with Andre and Joan we headed up north to see Uncle Mike and Aunt Joleen. While visiting them in beautiful Seattle we did our favorite things that we use to do there. Like see the Troll under the Freemont Bridge, See the Space Needle, visit Mike and Joleen's new sail boat that they are working on and yes of course it wouldn't be a visit to Washington if we did not do the Pikes Market and watch the fish be thrown around. We also spent an afternoon with Mike and Joleen at the Lake during Seafair. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Onward we headed further up North to Probably one of our favorite National Parks now Cascades National Park. It was so peaceful and beautiful. We got in some amazing hikes (some of the best we have ever done)! On one of our hikes we had the dogs running back and forth on the trail. When we were heading back down Coco decided to run off the path and chase a deer he had seen. We thought we had lost him for good. For minutes we yelled for him and nothing, then he finally decided to show up. We looked up above us and there was a deer looking down at us. We thought that was strange, the deer then disappeared and for some reason we were whistling and the deer reappeared over us. He looked at us for a few minutes and then disappeared again. We whistled gain and he reappeared again. We couldn't stop laughing about it. We thought this was a trained deer, and someone left him in the woods. The deer actually listened better then Coco did. Another hike we hiked miles up to a lake that had a glacier still and ice burgs floating in the lake. So what does a crazy family traveling the country do. They strip down to nearly nothing and run into the freezing cold water, SCREAM!!!! like girls and run back to shore and get attached by the biggest bugs ever seen by man. What a wonderful time we had in the Cascades.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

After the Cascades we headed over to Anicortis and the San Juan Islands. We went there to meet up with our sweet peeps on the road The Chinchens! We boon docked with them for a week or so over looking the water and some of the other islands. Had a blast with them. Steve went with Jason to watch him play a show at one of the local bars, we got together and jammed with them, and with doing so we found out that we have an awesome drummer in the family (Isabelle). She rocked the studio. We went to the beach and had a wonderful picnic. We went on awesome bike rides around the Island as a large group, it must have been a sight to see all 11 of us riding around together. While we were in Anicortis Winston learned how to ride his bike with out training wheels. Yah Winston! Thanks Kara and Jason for the good times!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

We then put the bus and the VW onto the ferry, that's right I said ferry! Nothing like seeing the skoolie and the VW on a ferry. We crossed over to Port Townsend. We again met up with Jamie and Cory and kids while they came up to camp at Fort Worden. We toured the run down Fort and looked for surviving ghost. It was kind of scary. We did a day on the beach with them and went to the local farmers market. One of the best farmer's markets we have ever been to.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Update

Hey everyone, NO! we did not fall off the face of the Earth! We are going to try to get more stuff up on the blog soon. For now I would like to share the new site that I have started putting together. organictribethredz.blogspot.com. I want it to be a site that I can show off and sell our craftiness and in the future I'd love to add friends and family creations as well and help get their stuff out there. Etsy, Ebay and other sites have not worked so well in the past. It seems I post an item on those sites and I end up selling the piece in person and then have to go on-line and take it off. The Christmas season is coming up soon so enjoy the site as I add more things. Comment if you will on what you like and what I should add to the mix. I only use 100% recycled fabrics for my creations. If you have a special order shoot it my way and I'll see if it can be done. Thanks for all our friends and family who have bought our items the past few years you guys are the best!  As I said I will be posting more of our travels soon.

Real Jobs.....kinda!

So being on the road full time mostly means, for us, being extremely frugal (broke) and picking up jobs along the way. Usually we do short term jobs like remodeling or seasonal/ holiday jobs. Most last 1-2 weeks. We decided after visiting Bryce Canyon (BC) in March for the funeral that it might be a good place to stay for a bit. We love southern Utah & since Steve has a ton of family there that we didn't really know we thought we'd pick up a job & explore the area & get to know some more of his relatives. The kids were really excited to meet some cousins too! So we got jobs as ATV guides. Our boss was one of Steve's 2nd cousins and a pretty cool guy. We worked 3 or 4 (12) hr days then we had 3 to 4 days off to play. Of course the "work" was riding ATVs on beautiful trails and seeing wildlife. It didn't pay squat, but it had to be the funnest job we've had! This was our 1st work camper job and we found that we were MUCH younger then all the other work campers, which we kinda assumed, but hoped for at least a few other people our age. We'd met some really sweet people there. One of our neighbors (also work campers) was always bringing treats by for the kids (and dogs) and surprising us with little gifts. We are truly blessed to know them! Others have been a bit ummmm, stand offish. I think our dreads had really thrown some of these ultra conservative people. We really had hoped to get to know some of the family, but unfortunately I think they are all too busy with their daily lives. Our kids have been real troopers, but our long days at work had wore on them and they were really missing friends. Even though we travel full time they have always had /made friends everywhere we've been. When we first made it to Bryce, we met up with The Chinchen family, one of our favorite families on the road. We also had fun meeting up with Jana Smith and her boys, thanks Jana for dinner and the good times. We went on many hikes. We had been in Bryce for 2 months and it was time to move on. Over all we really enjoyed our time at Bryce and have some wonderful memories to take with us!

Some of our side trips we took on our days off were a visit to Zion's NP. The older 3 kiddos took Steve up to hike Angle's Landing, Winston & I played in the river. We did the Riverwalk hike as a family (the prettiest I think) and I took Lincoln & Winston to the Emerald Pools. We had hoped to hike the Narrows, but the spring run off made the river huge & cold...44! The kids did the JR Ranger program and got to add another pin to their collection! Another trip we took was up to Blue Spruce campground which is off of Devil's Backbone. This drive was beautiful! We stopped to play in a river and collect pretty rocks. We were hoping to find Jasper, but didn't really know what it looked like. Memorial weekend we spent with my sis & her family in St. George. We did a fun/ challenging hike near Silver Reef. Which included climbing a bolder with hand holes & a rope. Then we ended up at a slot canyon and had to swim to get through it. We made it to the bottom of a little waterfall. none of us were prepared for water so we swam in our clothes. It was a bit more extreme then the easy going hike we had planned, but we all loved it and the kids did great! We also got a date night with just the adults!

Zions entrance

Angel's landing up behind the kids before the hike up to it

the switch-backs up to Angel's landing

the kids at the top of Angel's landing

you have to hold onto chains to climb the last half mile

this is looking at the last half mile with 2,000 foot cliffs on both sides of the climb

the last thing you see before you climb with the chains

more switch-backs on angel's landing

Winston and Lincoln at Emerald pools

more Emerald pools

Zions was our first camping trip with Baby our new VW

the Bison outside Zions near the East entrance

the kids enjoying Zions

Lincoln and Conner in Bryce Canyon

Steve and the kids in Bryce on a hike

some of the amazing trees on Navajo Loop trail in Bryce

the boys holding up the arch in Bryce

switch-backs on Navajo Loop trail

Winston wanted to carry the hike pack

Aquarius Plateau you can see from our ATV trail

view from ATV trail

Buck seen on ATV tour


we witnessed lots of baby Pronghorn being born

Prairie dogs at Ruby's Inn area

Bryce's sister and her fam came up to Bryce to visit

Jana Smith and her boys and the kids

Fossil hunting in Tropic was a fun day trip and found some really cool fossils and Conner found 2 nice pieces of petrified wood and what we think is a dinosaur tooth. Steve had taken the kids back there twice when I had been at work and his collection of rocks is getting quiet large! He has been bitten by the rock hounding bug bad!

Conner looking for fossils

Bryce, Lincoln and Winston looking over fossil piles

Isabelle looking for fossils

We headed up to Layton for our niece Brittani's High School graduation party. We are really proud of her! She had a baby, Cadin, a year ago and still managed to graduate on time and she got her CNA and plans to go to nursing school. She is one hard working single mama! We also celebrated Cadin's 1st b-day. It was a great day with family & the cousins had a blast doing slip & slide and hot tubbing! Since we were up north we had to see our good friends the Dudley's! We spent the night in their beautiful house in Logan. It is a historic home that has been decorated and fixed up beautifully! They are a full time family also and they rent their home. So if you are looking for a vacation rental in Logan, this is the place to stay! The adults took a walk around town and the next morning Dave made us a d-lish breakfast and then they showed us more of Logan. It really is a beautiful city! We got a super short visit in with Crystal & the girls & my parents. Then we had dinner & stayed the night at Steve's parents. It was nice to be able to spend some time with them and they spoiled the kids rotten....as always! We also went to the Sloan family reunion near Bryce Canyon.

Steve and Nick (Steve's bro) playing horse shoes

the kids played alot of fun games with their cousins

the kids get their hooping skills from their Grandma Sloan

Conner won his age groups hooping contest

Winston won his hooping age group

Lincoln won his age group, is their a pattern here?

Nick and Amber at the reunion

Lincoln and Winston with the Aunt and Uncle and Easton their cousin

the kids won a lot of bags of candy

I talked June & kiddos into hiking Timpanogus Cave with us. Yeah, I had forgotten just how hard that hike is! It's only 1.5 miles but it is SUPER steep! The cave is really cool and the hike down was nice. The kids did the JR Ranger program and added yet another pin to their collection!

the kids saying the JR. Ranger pledge

the fam atop Timp

inside Timp Cave


the view from Timp down into Utah valley

the kids and their cousins on Timp hike

June and her kids Curtis and Annabelle