7 Outdoor Spooktacular Halloween Activities
Can I just tell you how much I LOVE Halloween!? Too much to accurately depict it in this blog post. The ghosts, goblins, the smell of Autumn in the air, and the family togetherness are all reasons I...
View ArticleIndoor Sailboats – A Rainy Day Activity For Young Explorers
“Hey Mom, can we make a boat like they did on Curious George?” This question came as a kind of a shock to me, because A. being the super-busy Christmas Season, it’d been a LONG time since we’d watched...
View ArticleTips For A Successful ATV Adventure With Kids
In a previous post, Shawna talked about her experience with taking her family on a trip in a side by side ATV. My in-laws just recently purchased two side-by-side Polaris RZRs: a 4-seater and a...
View ArticleHiking With Non-Hikers
My brother Robert and his fun family came to visit us from Northern Utah for spring break! While discussing what kinds of activities they wanted to do, Rob’s wife Kelly mentioned “Oh, and we might want...
View ArticleAnd They Shall Have PIE…While Camping?
Four years ago, my Mom gave us this set of handmade Pie Sticks for a Christmas present. You’ve never heard of a “Pie Stick” before? How about a “Tart Stick”? Neither had we! We didn’t even know how to...
View ArticleHow To Make Your Very Own Kubb Set
Seven or eight years ago, Shawna and Damon introduced Jake and I to the game of Kubb, a Swedish game also known as The Viking Game . It is an easy field game that any age group or ability level can...
View ArticleFish Eyes and Optic Nerve Sunglasses Review + Giveaway
“Fish can’t blink.” I repeatedly told myself as I stripped my line through the water. It was a bright, sunny day with little-to-no cloud cover and I knew that if I was going to catch my first ever...
View ArticleDread Snow Glove Duty No Longer
I am going to be honest for a moment… I love, love, LOVE that my kids like being outside. I delight in those moments when they choose to build a sand castle, or jump in the leaves, or even play in...
View ArticleOutdoor Inspired Quiet Book + Free Patterns
I have a toddler that is a mover and a goer, an escape artist, a wiggle-monster, (as his brothers like to call him), which is all good and dandy when we are playing outside. But at church, or at the...
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