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Five Things To Do with Your Kids in New Orleans
Our family ended up going to New Orleans last month so I could lead a session about CSS edits at iRetreat Conference, but Josh and I had never really been there before. Forget the party reputation of Mardi Gras and Bourbon Street. There’s plenty of kid friendly adventures waiting for you in NOLA. Here’s five…
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Road Trip Technology – the Electric Cooler
About a month before we left town for New Orleans, my husband Josh mentioned that he’d like to pick up an electric cooler for our trip. I’m not gonna lie; I laughed in his face. Because who ever heard of a cooler that you put ice into, that you plug in? It’s totally silly, think…
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Where Will the Road Lead You?
Our recent family road trip took us to New Orleans, so I could lead a session on website CSS edits at iRetreat Conference. I got to see my blogging friends Anne Parris from Midlife Boulevard and Nicole Bullock from Cute Culture Chick, I got to say hi to other friendly blog faces. I got to…
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Why Your Family Needs to Take a Road Trip
Family road trips are all about getting out to see the world. I absolutely love driving around out here near our home. There’s tons of trees, it’s super green, and it’s just completely gorgeous. Even though we live somewhere totally beautiful, it’s still important to get outside your bubble and see what else is out…
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Christmas Break Roundup – Happy New Year!
We’re so excited to be back in the office after a week off for the holidays – hope everyone had some great holidays with family and friends! Here’s a tiny recap of our Christmas break: This is one of my favoritest ever Christmas cards we’ve done for our family, and I almost didn’t think it…
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The Essential Vacation Packing List for Families with Kids
I’m a chronic list-maker. I make list of what I’m going to accomplish at work each day, I make lists of the chores I’m tackling after the kids go to bed. I make lists of other lists. If you’ve been paying attention to our Instagram, you know we headed back to southern California for a…
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Cops Called: How Days Inn Reeks of Southern Hospitality
As promised in yesterday’s blog post about road trip ideas, I’ll tell ya how someone had the cops called on our family! EXCITING! It started out as a standard road trip day. Slept at the Days Inn in Birmingham, Alabama (near the 78 and interstate 20). Early morning walk outside with the dogs so they could…
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Road Trip Ideas to Save Your Sanity
Have we got some great road trip ideas for you! Our family just finished up a long coast to coast family road trip. All told, our traveling party included Josh and I, Phil (of course), Grandma, Josh’s uncle Don and aunt Lynda, his brother Chris and our future sister-in-law Cari. Oh, and three dogs. Did…
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End of Summer Hiatus
In case you couldn’t tell, the blog’s on a short end of summer hiatus! We’ll be back in early September with all kinds of fun news to share. In the meantime, check out this awesome rainbow I saw over the Organ Mountains in Las Cruces, New Mexico yesterday: The best part was the timing. We…
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We’re on Holiday!
We’ll be back later next week with all new posts!
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On the Road for a New Mex Xmas!
We hit the bricks for Christmas in Las Cruces, New Mexico with Josh’s mom Carole this week. And let me tell you this – if we’re flying somewhere, Josh and I pack light thanks to the airlines and their $25 a bag charges. But driving? Forget about it. That’s a whole other story. Road-tripping for us involves hours upon hours…
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Maternity Leave is Startin’ to Happen!
So exciting to start thinking about things like maternity leave – our little guy gets here so soon! This morning I put our Etsy shop into vacation mode. It feels like there’s still so much left to do before the boy makes his arrival in September, but this will be one less thing to have…
