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Orange Honey Dijon Rustic Chicken Sheet Pan Meal

I developed this Orange Honey Dijon Rustic Chicken Sheet Pan Meal for our Epic Yellowstone Family Road Trip and it's pretty much going to be making a monthly appearance on our meal plans and probably at family holiday gatherings this fall and winter. This meal is...

Sep 30, 2020

Solutions

Check out these tips for small businesses like fitness centers, retail stores, insurance offices to get their customers involved in packing Operation Christmas Child shoeboxes. These tips are also great to get your business involved in collecting items for donation during the holidays. #occ #occpackingparty #ideasforshoeboxes #ideasforholidaydonations #collectingdonations

How small businesses can participate in Operation Christmas Child

I love Operation Christmas Child and this time of year, our family is counting our year-round collection of OCC shoebox supplies. I was recently asked by a small business how they could use their customers to gather and pack boxes for Operation Christmas Child. So...

Sep 28, 2020

Family/Parenting Solutions Travel

Ultimate Family Road Trip

We embarked on the Epic Mount Rushmore-Yellowstone-Rocky Mountain Grand Adventure as the ultimate family road trip for 2020. Our goal was to make memories and see new places while staying socially distant and protecting our family. We traveled with a toddler, two...

Sep 26, 2020

Recipes Travel

This Road Trip Menu and Grocery list for Yellowstone National Park extended to cover meals for Rocky Mountain National Park and a Family Road Trip to Badlands National Park, Estes Park and discovering wildlife at Grand Teton National Park. These ideas are meant to make vacation meal planning easy, healthy, and take all the work off mama. #yellowstoneroadtripmeals #vacationmeals #familycabinmeals #cookingatairbnb

Yellowstone Road Trip Menu

This Family Road Trip Menu is perfect for a long weekend together or an extended stay in an Airbnb or cabin. These family cabin meals were a perfect selection for our Epic Yellowstone Road Trip but would have worked just as good for our Southwest USA Road Trip last...

Sep 23, 2020

Travel

Highlights and Tour Spots for Estes Park, Colorado - walking route, resting recommendations, driving tours and must see stops while you enjoy this perfect mountain town at the base of Rocky Moountain National Park - and yes, I'm ready to retire there! #coloradotrip #elk #familytrip #coloradofamilytrip

Exploring Estes Park

Exploring Estes Park, Colorado was the perfect final destination for our Ultimate Family Road Trip through Mount Rushmore, Yellowstone, and Rocky Mountain National Park. We intentionally left the day unplanned so we could just play and explore. But, you know there...

Sep 21, 2020

Travel

This one day itinerary at Rocky Mountain National Park in Colorado is the perfect list for pull outs, scenic drives, and encountering wildlife.

A day at Rocky Mountain National Park

While there are plenty more places I wanted to see at Rocky Mountain National Park, one day was for sure enough to experience the highlights, drive to the tops and see a few animals. Well, I spent more than an hour with a moose, so I can't really complain about our...

Sep 20, 2020

Travel

Jackson Hole and Grand Tetons

As if Yellowstone National Park wasn't magical enough, we continued our Ultimate Family Road Trip on to Jackson Hole and Grand Teton National Park. Much like Yellowstone, I wanted more days and we already talk often of making a long couples' weekend out of coming...

Sep 19, 2020

Travel

This two-day itinerary was the perfect way to split the park and catch the highlights of the North and South Route and encounter a few wildlife.

Touring Yellowstone in Two Days

Yellowstone National Park was dreamy. It was the core of our Mount Rushmore - Yellowstone- Rocky Mountain Ultimate Road Trip. Yellowstone was the reason we took this trip and brought Little Man’s grandparents with us. I’m sharing our two-day itinerary, a few extra...

Sep 18, 2020

Travel

Custer State Park and Mount Rushmore are a perfect combination for a day trip with a half day exploring connecting each one. But stay longer and explore with this ideal itinerary for a week in Rapid City, South Dakota. #familytrips #rapidcity #crazyhorse #mtrushmore #mountrushmore #custerstatepark

Adventures at Mount Rushmore and Custer State Park

Day three of our Ultimate Family Road Trip packed in a lot of highlights in one day. We toured Mount Rushmore, Crazy Horse Memorial, and Custer State Park all in one jam-packed adventure day. By staying in Box Elder, we were close enough for an early start and an...

Sep 17, 2020

Solutions Travel

These tips for sanitary and safe social distancing travel in 2020 will protect your family from germs on a road trip. Just a few adjustments and your family can still travel and make memories safely. #covidtravel #sanitationtipsfortravel #socialdistanceroadtrip

11 Sanitary and Safe Social Distancing Travel Tips

These sanitary and safe social distancing travel tips are perfect for the fall family road trip. We took an Epic Family Road Trip to Yellowstone this summer and these 11 tips are my gift from what we learned. With friends taking their kids to the beach for virtual...

Sep 16, 2020

Travel

Badlands National Park | Overlooks and Scenic Stops

Badlands National Park was our goal for day two of our Epic Yellowstone Family Road Trip. The plan was to leave early and get to the Badlands by noon or early afternoon so we had plenty of time to explore. The park closes around five, so it was important for us to...

Sep 15, 2020

Travel

Advice for roadside detours and stop ideas along your route through South Dakota to Yellowstone for an epic family road trip adventure.

Traveling through South Dakota to Yellowstone

In August, we embarked on an Ultimate Family Road Trip for 11 days, covering 10 states. When you take a big family road trip in the middle of COVID you are clearly trying to overcome mental health issues from isolation and trying to avoid germs and crowds whenever...

Sep 14, 2020