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August 15, 2019 by: Jennifer Priest

How to get kids to read more on the ultimate summer road trip

how to encourage reading with the Percy Jackson book series

This post has been sponsored by Disney Book Group. All opinions are 100% mine. “Mom, we should totally go on this road trip!” In April, my son discovered a 30 day “ultimate” U.S. road trip on Facebook and wanted to do it THIS summer. “Hey buddy, that sounds cool but I’m not sure if it’s do-able.” A thousand requests from him and two months later,

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March 12, 2019 by: Jennifer Priest

How to Make the Most of Your Beaches Resorts Vacation with Teens

How to plan a beaches turks & Caicos vacation with teens - graphic

Inside: How to plan the Caribbean vacation of a lifetime at Beaches Resorts with your teen kids. “I’m going to the nightclub”, our 11 year old informed us. He was living large, dancing the night away in Club Liquid, Beaches’ on-site underage dance club, every night. Beaches Resorts makes your family’s wildest vacation dreams a reality, in a safe all-inclusive paradise. I was so excited

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November 19, 2018 by: Jennifer Priest

25 Treats to Eat at Knott’s Merry Farm

Knott’s Chicken Dinner is the thing of legends. But there’s so much more to eat at Knott’s Merry Farm during the holidays.  I bit the bullet for you, going off the keto diet to sample all of the carbolicious Knott’s Merry Farm treats and eats to find the best food to eat at Knott’s. Latin themed foods Knott’s honors their Southern California roots with traditional

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October 7, 2018 by: Jennifer Priest

Craft Weekend – 12 Reasons Why You Need A Craftcation

Craftcation Golden Girls Party 2018

I’m excited to share an event I’m attending in Spring 2019.  Craftcation: Business + Makers Conference is an annual memory making craft weekend, featuring industry professionals leading attendees in over 100+ hands-on DIY workshops and creative business classes. This post contains affiliate links – I may make a small commission if you click and purchase from these links. 12 Reasons Why You Need A Craftcation What if you could

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August 13, 2018 by: Jennifer Priest

How To Make A DIY Travel Scrapbook Kit

If you absolutely love scrapbooking your travel memories and photos, then you’re gonna love this DIY travel scrapbook kit! One of the biggest challenges with scrapbooking is finding time to scrapbook and making sure you journal all the detail you want to remember. What if you could scrapbook in the moment? With this DIY travel scrapbook kit you can get all your travel scrapbooking done

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July 22, 2018 by: Jennifer Priest

Knott’s Soak City – What you Need to Know BEFORE You Go!

Planning a trip to Knott’s Soak City? Whether it’s your first time at a waterpark or you’re a seasoned pro, these are the tips that you need to know before you go to Soak City. Knott’s Soak City gifted us a family 4 pack of tickets to check out the Orange County water park. We’re gonna share what we learned so you can make sure

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April 17, 2018 by: Jennifer Priest

Planning A Palm Springs Road Trip

Planning a Palm Springs road trip? You’re in the right place to see where the locals go and the must-see stops along the way! Let me show in this brand new Toyota RAV4 that Toyota USA let me borrow for the week: Living in Southern California it’s easy to imagine we take a lot of road trips. I seem to take more road trips when

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April 5, 2018 by: Jennifer Priest

Magnolia Table Tour … we went to the Grand Opening!

I was scrolling through Instagram last week, while on a trip to Austin, Texas, and came across an ad from Magnolia Table. Their grand opening was TOMORROW?! We had a rental car. We had time. We were already in Texas. We had an appetite. We made the trip to Mangolia Table’s Grand Opening on Monday March 26, 2018! Come along while we take you on

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March 30, 2018 by: Jennifer Priest

Knott’s Berry Farm Boysenberry Festival

The Boysenberry Festival at Knott’s Berry farm is a great time for the family and perfect for foodies!! I grew up eating ripe Boysenberries fresh off the bushes in my grandparents’ backyard in Southern California. Fast forward 30 years and I now I have a thriving garden lined with Boysenberry plants. Warm, ripe berries over fresh vanilla ice cream is one of my favorite end

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February 3, 2018 by: Jennifer Priest

What to see at Knott’s Peanuts Celebration

All new for 2018, Knott’s Berry Farm kicks things off with the Knott’s Peanuts Celebration. If you;re a Peanuts fan, you will love the Charlie Browniest of celebrations. All through the Park are events, details, and more to celebrate all that is Peanuts. Plus, there’s a new member to the Peanuts gang at Knott’s that you won’t wanna miss … Pigpen!! We didn’t get a

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