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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 23, 2018 by: Jennifer Priest

The best Christmas theme park trip for the whole family

I was given admission to Knott’s Merry Farm in order to write this post. All opinions are 100% my own. Planning a theme park trip for the Christmas season sounds like a great idea … to the kids! Suffocating crowds, hours long ride lines, and spending the kids’ college fund on overpriced snacks can crush all of your sugar plum dreams. Christmas time visits to

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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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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 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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November 27, 2017 by: Jennifer Priest

A Grandparents’ Guide to Knott’s Merry Farm

We went to a press day at Knott’s Berry Farm to write this post. All opinions are 100% my own. Every year around Thanksgiving the conversation comes up about what we should do for Christmas. As the kids in the family have gotten older, the grandparents want to take advantage of the kids being able to travel and have more grown-up conversation. We’re always talking about

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October 31, 2017 by: Jennifer Priest

Taking the bus to Disneyland?!

This post is sponsored by OC Transit Authority and OCBus. All opinions are 100% my own. One of the most awesome benefits of living in Southern California is that we are so close to Orange County and all the amenities it has to offer, from beaches to the Disneyland Resort and more. But if you’ve ever been to OC, you might have experienced it’s infamous

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