After 5 months of being home, the kids and I will accompany my husband to Indiana this week. We are all pretty excited about going to a great community in Indiana and sharing the good news of the gospel. That is what my husband does - gets invited to communities across North America to share the gospel with people who want to hear it. Lives are changed when people come out and study the Bible and people choose to be baptized. Simple as that. And it is such a blessing to our family to be a part … [Read more...]
10 Things to Do in Friday Harbor
We live close enough to the Washington State ferry system on Fidalgo Island that when family come and visit us we love to take a ferry out to Friday Harbor on San Juan Island. We had the privilege of hosting my husband's parents last week and thankfully we had lovely weather. {Did you know we almost broke a record in Seattle for days without rain? We went 48 days! The record is 51 days. Crazy!} When we visit Friday Harbor there are things we love to do. It never gets old. Each year when we … [Read more...]
Zingo! To Go: An Educational Travel Game
We love having a fun yet educational travel game with us when we go to all over North America for my husband's work. (We travel so much, we have a lot of fun things we can do.) We are homeschooling our Princess and love to include games in her preschool homeschool time. So, when the opportunity arose to review Zingo! To Go from Thinkfun, I jumped at the chance. I knew my Princess would love this game that is for travel and like classic Bingo. About Zingo! To Go Take Zingo! zaniness on the … [Read more...]
Plan Your San Antonio Trip
This is a Sponsored post written by me on behalf of SAVE for SocialSpark. All opinions are 100% mine. With the summer season in full swing, many families are going on vacation. Did you know that one of the most affordable places to have a fun vacation is right here in our country, in San Antonio? Have you ever been to San Antonio? San Antonio has become even more affordable with the new SAVE program. SAVE makes it easy to plan your San Antonio Trip. What … [Read more...]
Frugal Traveling
We are hosting family, my sister in law and her husband and four children, this week in our corner of the country. It is always nice to have family come in the summer. This is their first stop on a summer RV tour. Their dream - bucket list, so to speak - was to buy an RV and travel around the country. They made that dream happen! We travel in our family eight months out of the year for my husband's work so though traveling across the country in an RV isn't on our travel bucket list, we still … [Read more...]
Summer Vacation Idea: New York City Family Cruise
We travel a lot. If you have been reading my blog, you know this. Eight months out of the year we are traveling all over North America. Some times it is a difficult life, but usually we have a lot of fun. We really get to see a lot of the country and do some awesome family friendly things. One thing on our to do list is a family cruise. We have not been on a family cruise yet. Many people don't realize that you can actually depart for various family cruises from New York City. We have … [Read more...]
Seattle Sights
We don't live too far from Seattle, and when the summer begins to warm up, we always love to take day trips to the "big city" and see the Seattle sights. It is fun to drive to Seattle when the sun is shining and enjoy a day out and about. We have travled all over the country, and I know I am biased by this part of Washington state is the most beautiful I have seen, especially in the summer. With blue skies and green grass and trees over looking the Puget Sound, the sights are breathtaking! I … [Read more...]