The Adventures of the Halstead Fam!

It’s A Boy!

Our world changed completely at 11:53am Tuesday, February 23rd, 2016 – our beautiful baby boy, Samuel James, was born!  Months of anticipation, excitement, dreaming, hoping, joking, sleepless nights filled with kicks from inside my belly, and praying for a safe labor…

39 Weeks & Waiting….

We are on the edge of the end of our pregnancy journey with Baby Halstead!  Earlier this week our NCU coworkers & friends helped us to prepare and celebrate by throwing us an adorable adventure-based baby shower.  There were treats…

End of Semester

We made it! The end of the Winter semester is marked with graduation and holidays. Graduation went very well this year, and we’ve done a good job of documenting our process to repeat the good parts in the spring! This…

Cold Car Camping

Last weekend we decided we needed to get out of town.  So we packed up the car with the essentials for a car camping adventure and headed south to Rosenburg, then on to the North Umpqua Highway.  Before venturing out…