Full-time Families Rally Time!!

We just got done with our 2nd Full-Time Family rally and it was amazing! Kimberly (who started and runs Fulltime Families) does an amazing job with making everyone feel welcome and planning out all of the activities for the week. There were 40 families here and over 100 kids. It is so cool to watch all …

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5 Family Friendly Things to do by the Grand Tetons

The GRAND Tetons. WOW. You drive into the park and the mountains are breathtaking. You feel like you are driving in a valley with Huge Mountains on one side and gorgeous “hills” on the other. We stayed at Gros Ventre Campground. It was an experience! My parents went down early on a Friday morning and …

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Kids Being Kids at an Adventure Playground!

When we were in Ithaca, New York visiting Craig’s cousin she brought us to an Adventure Playground – Anarchy Zone. She had no idea how much I had wanted to visit one since reading an article about one in Europe. It was just as cool as I thought it would be! Let me explain what …

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5 things I need when driving the Rig

We all need a little something to help us get from point A to point B.  Here are my top 5.  Let’s go!   5. Captain’s hat.  This is more of a primal instinct than a necessity and definitely the most important out of these 5.  I could go on and on about this one, …

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Impromptu Oil Change

So, we’re cruising down the *ahem* beautiful highway of West Virginia (no offense WV peeps), and all of a sudden my oil pressure drops really low and the light and buzzer on the dash start going off.  A few seconds later the pressure returned to a more normal number and light/buzzing stopped.  Whew!  I was …

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Hike and Climb with kids in Shenandoah National Park

Virginia! Let me say it again Virginia! We had so much fun when we were there – Yes we only stopped for a day and spent the night in a Walmart parking lot but it was one of the most enjoyable days we have had hiking as a whole family. We started by driving into …

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Wishing my sister and her family a fun adventure

When we started planning on living this lifestyle we planned it with my Sister and her husband. Our original plan was to buy a duplex together and then travel for long stretches of the year together. After we took a RV trip for a couple of weeks we talked to them again about doing it …

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How travel has made our kids more adventurous and confident

Hitting the road has definitely made our kids more adventurous! Before we left we would go to a lot of museums and activities around our home town and the kids always had a good time. Carson use to have a fear of swimming in the ocean because he was afraid a shark was going to get …

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Ship ashore at the ShipWreck Museum in Key West!

We stopped at the Shipwreck museum in downtown Key West. When you arrive everyone is dressed in costume and they welcome you into the museum. If you want you can take a guided tour where they tell you about things in the museum. You do not have to take the tour. You are free to …

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Diaper free without any M&M’s or potty training books

It is official all 4 of our kids are out of diapers!! We did this without any M&M’s or potty training books. For real. Here is how it went down. First born: He turned 2 we went to the store and he picked out his Thomas the Train underwear. We came home put them on. …

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