I’ve shared before my boy’s love of trains and our recent trip to see Thomas the Train. We stop and look at trains, we have 2 basic wooden train sets, we rode on trains many times! Our boy just loves trains! Thanks to TOMY we were able to their brand new motorized train track a…
If you are anything like us, you’ve found yourself with too many toys that simply take up space and never get played with. It’s easy to accumulate a lot of toys that serve no real purpose in your home other than they were gifted and forgotten. I’m especially over toys that a) consume an insane…
We’ve got BIG news!! We’re moving to TEXAS!! All 5 of us hopped on a plane to go home hunting last week. After two and a half days and about 22 homes, we came down to two homes we really liked a lot. We deliberated a bit about the pros and cons of both then…
We took the kids to the ocean for the very first time this last month. We stayed up until the wee hours of the morning and woke the kids early to hit the road. Island Beach State Park came highly recommended toys from a close friend that grew up in New Jersey, so that’s where…
Last weekend, Thomas the Train was right down the road from us in Phillipsburg, New Jersey! We decided to make an impromptu day trip to surprise the kids. It was a free event if you just wanted to browse through. If you wanted to ride the Thomas train you had to purchase a ticket for…
Last night I said goodbye to my friend of nearly 14 years, a few days shy of his 14th birthday. A friend that has been consistently by my side longer than anyone else. I was his entire world. It was a common conversation of “where’s Rudy?” “Oh, with mommy.” He was always by my side…
We spent our Saturday having brunch out and then headed to the Grim’s Orchards and Family Farm in Breinigsville. Every year we find a fun place to take the kids for pumpkins and Fall events. We grew our own pumpkins this year so we swapped out pumpkin picking for apple picking! Plus, we wanted to…
When we moved across the country, I was worried about being able to find a photographer. We had been using Verte Photography in Colorado for years and being in a new state where we knew no one made me doubt we would find someone here. However, as fate would have it – I found…
The first weekend of September we loaded up the camper for another family camping trip. We wanted to get the camper out at least one more trip before it was too cold. While I didn’t grow up camping all the time but in the backyard + a few times in the backyard, Ryan grew up…
America On Wheels in Allentown, was somewhere we had heard a lot of good things about. So during my granddad’s stay, we decided to make it one of our stops. We had a nice picnic down the street at a park and then headed to the antique automobile museum. We were impressed with the variety…
While my granddad was visiting us here in Pennsylvania, we tried to find a variety of places he would enjoy visiting and that we hadn’t experienced yet either. One of the places that we chose was the Lehigh Valley Zoo. I think this might be the first place we’ve gone that I wouldn’t recommend people…
I’m standing here in the middle of week thirty-three and I’m not sure how I got here. This pregnancy has been nothing short of a whirlwind and I’m feeling blown away we are so close to meeting our sweet boy. He’s an active babe and I’m convinced he’s regularly breakdancing in my belly. Yesterday A…
I believe there’s a misconception that if someone is leading healthy or toxin free life they have to avoid every circumstance where they could encounter those things. While this may be true for some based on preference, the reality is it’s not easily attainable in normal every day life’s circumstances. We are going to encounter…
One year ago yesterday, I said YES to changing our lifestyle. It wasn't a decision that I made lightly. In fact, it was one I researched for nearly a year before deciding. That YES to living as toxin-free as possible literally changed our lives for the better. I had already been conscious about what we…
Earlier this year, we discovered a pop-up camper online and decided we just had to have it. It was about an hour and a half away in Philadelphia, so we loaded up the kids in the car and went down to check it out. Getting a new camper was on our list to invest it…
The fact that summer is half over already feels a little crazy to me. I'm not sure where the time goes these days but I will say it's felt like Summertime! The days are humid in Pennsylvania, much like my own childhood, but the shady evenings are nice when the humidity is low. Our summer…
The Fourth of July felt a little different for us this year. There was the bitterness of missing past traditions when we were in Colorado. The past several years we would spend it with my grandma and granddad with a cookout and fireworks. It was an extra time added to the recent list of missing…
We spent the last weekend of June in Kansas. We weren’t necessarily planning on a trip to Kansas but we had another loss in the family and needed to attend the funeral of my paternal grandmother. We knew it would be a part ofour year, it was just an uncertainty of when. We hopped on…
Over Memorial Day weekend we headed up to the Pocono mountains to check out the quiet Valley Living Historic Farm. It’s about 45 minutes away from us and we have been getting out and exploring this new state of ours. The farm isn’t always open like it was last weekend but they have events and…