Category: Personal
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Our Family Trip to Africa Part 2: Namibian Adventure
Check out the map of our Namibian Journey with all of the details below. Our journey started in Windhoek where we received our car and travel map and got set up for the next week on the road. We stayed at The Weinberg Hotel which was a super cool and modern hotel. It was a…
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Our Family Trip to Africa: Part 1 Cape Town
Our African journey began in Cape Town. Chris and I honeymooned in South Africa almost 12 years earlier. We were excited to be back and have the opportunity to share one of our favorite places with our children. It was a bumpy start with no hot water, then brown water and then we over slept…
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March Family Cooking Round-Up
We made another 4 recipes for our March Family Cooking, although 1 of them was a baking recipe. With a busy spring sports schedule, it is getting harder to do. Savanna and John each took on one recipe solo. Summary The easiest recipe here is the banana oat cookies (which is my recipe 😉). The…
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What I Buy at Costco
I am excited to share the items that I most frequently buy at Costco for my family. This is not an all-inclusive list. These are the items that work well for my family and we enjoy. There are numerous other pre-made items but we have not discovered any that enough of us like. I…
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February Family Cooking Round-Up
I was happy we were able to make another 4 recipes for our February Family Cooking. Savanna even took on one recipe solo. This month we branched out and used some recipes that were not in the Kid’s Cook book. Summary The one major lesson learned this month was the recipes we chose that were…
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Our 2023 Disney Trip & The JW Marriott Orlando Grande Lakes
We took Savanna and John to Disney when I was pregnant with Peter and we were excited to finally return! We waited until they could all do almost everything together. While Chris and I love Disney it is exhausting so we wanted to balance the trip (3 days in the park and 3 days by…
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January Family Cooking Round-Up
Savanna asked for and received The America’s Test Kitchen Kids Cookbook for Christmas, which has been a present to our entire family. As much as I cook and teach for some reason this cookbook made it more special to cook from. When Savanna chose her first recipe Chris asked to assist her which has started…
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12 Days of Christmas Cookies 2022 Round-Up
For our third year we made 12 days of Christmas cookies! I now spread the baking out over 24 days, this makes it a lot more manageable. Different this year we did 12 Christmas treats, while they were mostly cookies, we also made a brownie, blondie and a chocolate bark. Ways to Use Your Christmas…
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2022 Year in Review & 2023 Intentions
2022 was a welcome return to normalcy with a lot of amazing trips, sporting events and activities! The year started off with some masks and limited activity, but soon returned to all regular activities. We continued our tradition with kicking off the new year skiing and a fun few days on the slopes. Peter celebrated…
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2022 Christmas Dinner Menu
I thought it would be helpful to start archiving our holiday menu as well. Our 2022 Christmas Dinner Menu is filled with our favorites for a cozy dinner crew of 9. This may be helpful for your holiday meal or a winter dinner party. Click the image above for the PDF with links to the…
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