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Give Experiences (not stuff) to your Grandchildren and Children this Christmas! Here are links to Atlanta area options!

Give Experiences (not stuff) to your Grandchildren and Children this Christmas! Here are links to Atlanta area options!

Christmas is a great time of year for giving and for some parents all the “stuff” can feel overwhelming after all the wrappings are trimmings are torn off. I know in our personal experience, we saw materialism creep up in to the lives of our children and we knew that sense of entitlement we saw was not what we wanted so we made some immediate changes. We have tried to make a shift from buying…

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Family Things to Do in Atlanta Area in October — Why We Went to the Annual Stone Mountain Highland Games... And Why You Should, Too!

Family Things to Do in Atlanta Area in October — Why We Went to the Annual Stone Mountain Highland Games… And Why You Should, Too!

If you’re looking for fun family things to do in the Atlanta Area during the month of October, the Annual Stone Mountain Highland Games should be at the top of your list! The weather is often comfortable in the 70s and humidity low for the southeast region of the United States. We had always considered going, but never took the leap until this year. Here’s how we finally decided it was time…and…

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Paulding County in Dallas, Georgia :: White Oak Park

If you find yourself West of Atlanta in Georgia (Paulding County), White Oak Park offers a few small lakes for fishing, a Disc Golf Course, exercise path, covered areas, and playgrounds.

We recommend you use this park in the colder months from mid-November through March. The downside of this park is it does have issues with vipers near the water areas, so you’ll need to keep your eyes open and…

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Fun in the Sun 4th of July

Fun in the Sun 4th of July 2017 - Rope Swinging and Boating on the Lake

We headed to lake on the 4th of July! The boys wanted to play on a rope swing they knew of nearby and the day was spent playing in the water and eating. Good times!

  Around 3 pm the first thunderstorm rolled through and we knew we wouldn’t be able to get the boat out of the water in time, so we grabbed a sunshade we had on hand…

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A little travel humor…

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Don't miss this "Field Trip" to the Great American Eclipse

Don’t miss this “Field Trip” to the Great American Eclipse

The last time I saw a solar eclipse I was barely in grade school. I remember my mom (who was a teacher) taking me out to the open field along with her 30 students where they all held up various box filtersthey had created in order to look at the eclipse for she was quite adamant that to look straight at the eclipse, I could burn my retinas. (Even a 99.9% solar eclipse of the sun can damage the…

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Are you getting the itch to travel? Yeah, me too.

Are you getting the itch to travel? Yeah, me too.

It’s about this time of year that we begin to seriously think about warmer days ahead and what new adventures might lie ahead for our tribe to explore.

It’s been awhile since we’ve been to the beach — at this point, I’m thinking a trip to Tybee Island, GA as it’s been about five years since we’ve been there with the kiddos. On my list of “things I’d love to experience” is a live hatch of baby sea…

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University of Washington | Remembering our Roots

University of Washington | Remembering our Roots

As we gear up for the big football game (the Chick-fil-A Peach Bowl College Football Playoff Semifinal) between our alma mater UW (The University of Washington) and BAMA (Alabama), my husband reminded me of how we stopped in for a short visit to the U.W. campus last summer (2015) to show the kids what used to be our old stomping grounds for several years as we got our college degrees.

We arrived…

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Travel Journal Hack & National Parks 100-Year Commemorative Stamps Picked up a National Parks 100-Year Commemorative stamp sheet at the US Post Office yesterday. These would be great to use as you travel!

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The world is a book… Where are you going to go next?

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Do you REALLY know how a petrified forest was made?

Do you REALLY know how a petrified forest was made?

We knew that we would eventually take the kids to see Mt. St. Helens National Park as part of teaching them about geology and to see the history of the volcano that at one point had impacted our lives when we were their age.

We had watched this video (see below) as part of our science and so the thought crossed my mind to stop and show the kids the Gingko Petrified Forest that I knew was on the…

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Protection & Providence: How a scary situation turned out to be a blessing in disguise

Protection & Providence: How a scary situation turned out to be a blessing in disguise

I was going back through my travel log/journal and I remembered this moment so vividly. Those of you who have been following for awhile may recall that as we were gearing up and preparing to go on our cross-country trip, I felt really apprehensive the week before our departure. It seemed the closer we got to our launch date, the more it became a reality and these worries came out of no-where. The…

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Grand Coulee Dam | Steamboat State Park - Part II

Grand Coulee Dam | Steamboat State Park – Part II

This post is continued from Grand Coulee Dam | Steamboat State Park Part I

About 15-minutes down the road from Steamboat Rock State Parkyou’ll find Electric City and the Grand Coulee Dam. We used the grocery store, Safeway, to restock our fridge and supplies and enjoyed a dinner or two at Pepper Jacks Bar & Grill — a diner that was a blast from the past. I remember Pepper Jacks well, because it…

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Grand Coulee Dam | Steamboat Rock State Park - Part I

Exploring Eastern Washington and the largest concrete dam in the United States.

When I am talking about Washington with someone from out of the area, there are two assumptions that usually happen with most who have never been to the State… 1) I find myself needing to clarify that I’m talking about Washington State and not Washington D.C. and 2) that the entire state is not a rain forest (as it is commonly assumed that all of Washington experiences Seattle weather). Seattle…

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Bringing in the Wheat Harvest

If you've never seen wheat harvested before, watch our video from our trip out West for the wheat harvest.

We arrived right as the wheat fields were ripening.  The summer had a wave of hot days — earlier than what’s typical, so the wheat ripened quick in the head. Thankfully, the protein count was usable, so we were able to harvest as planned.

If you’ve never seen the process of harvesting wheat, check out this video:

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Wyoming & Montana | The Grand Tetons & Yellowstone

Wyoming & Montana | The Grand Tetons & Yellowstone

Just to recap, our journey westward was on a time crunch — we needed to get to Washington State in time for the wheat harvest which was coming early that year due to heat waves.  At this point in our journey, we had made it to Wyoming and the route that day was to see as much as we could see while passing through the Grand Tetons and Yellowstone.  It was a Monday following the 4th of July…

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