The Youngrens | San Diego Photographers

Jeff and I arrived home from our week in Nicaragua at 2:00am on Monday morning and didn’t wake up until noon. At about ten in the morning, I woke up bleary-eyed and drooling with Gracie sprawled across my chest, pinning me down with her shocking ability to multiply her body weight to keep me from disturbing her comfy perch. She opened one lazy eye at me and then went back to snoring. I looked over at Jeff and asked, “Wear our pajamas to work day?” He grunted and nodded. And then we fell back asleep. Eventually we pulled ourselves out…

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Jeff and I landed in the capital of Nicaragua on Tuesday at noon after a sleepless red eye flight to Atlanta on Monday night. Blurry-eyed and hungry, we were greeted by our driver from the non-profit we’re working for with the news that the highway to Matagalpa (our final destination) had been shut down due to worker strikes. “We may or may not get through, but we’ll see.” We ran into the strikers’ roadblock about an hour into the should-be-two-hour drive. A policeman casually pointed to a dirt road off to the left and noted that the detour should only…

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I was packing our suitcases yesterday when I suddenly realized that it’s been a year since our last international trip. Over the course of 2010 and 2011, we traveled a ton and got to visit 12 different countries for incredible destination weddings, non-profit shoots, and pure personal fun. We flew 100,000 beautiful miles around the globe to places like Thailand, Cambodia, Italy, Costa Rica, Australia, and beyond. But the last trip we took across borders was to St. Lucia last spring. We’ve been hopping around domestically on a regular basis, but I realized as I was stuffing Jeff’s socks into his favorite pair…

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