How to host a kids book club on the book Wonder by RJ Palacio. Invitations, activity ideas, discussion questions, and more. This post is part of an ongoing Summer Reading for Kids series. Click HERE to find ideas for reading activities, reading lists, and reading incentives…and keep checking back for more! This summer my middle daughter chose the…
Our Epic Vacation: Day 8 We awoke on Day 8 at Mimi and Papa’s house in Sandy, Utah. We did a final pack-up of everything we needed for the next leg of our epic vacation and stuffed the rest of it into their basement storage room. My father-in-law then drove us to the airport in our van…
Our Epic Vacation: Days 6 & 7 Look at me, knocking out two days in one post. But only because Day 6 was pretty mellow. I mean, we needed some rest after the previous five days, don’t you think? We spent a leisurely morning on Day 6 at my in-laws’ house. We worked on laundry while the…
Our Epic Vacation: Day 5 The end of Day 4 found us all a little bit (a lot) cranky, and crashing for the night in our tent at Yellowstone after going to bed without dinner. I thought I’d better take a picture of our palatial tent that was so good to us on this camping trip. It…
Our Epic Vacation: Day 4 The view from our cute little cabin At the close of Day 3, we found ourselves in a cute little cabin in Custer State Park, South Dakota. I certainly appreciated the sort-of mattress I got to sleep on. It was so much better than rocks and dirt, despite my air mattress. Plus, we…
This is not technically a book review, but since the series is called “The BOOK of Jeremiah” I’m going to just call it that anyway. Besides, it’s extremely unlikely that I will ever review a DVD again, so why go to the trouble to create a new category? Just before we left on the Epic Vacation,…
Our Epic Vacation: Day 3 The end of Day 2 found us calmly setting up camp at Badlands National Park in South Dakota. The morning of Day 3 found us not wanting to get up quite as early as we needed to, but we couldn’t waste the day away on something so frivolous as sleep!…
Our Epic Vacation: Day 2 (part 2) As a reminder, we spent the (very hot) morning touring the Ingalls Homestead in DeSmet, South Dakota, where my two younger daughters both got to try their hand at driving a covered wagon. Then we were on the road again. I like to take pictures of my feet…
Our Epic Vacation: Day 2 (part 1) After spending the night camping in a thunderstorm, the first 3 or 4 hours of Day 2 were spent at the Laura Ingalls Wilder Homestead. Now, if you’re a Laura aficionado, you know that her family moved around a lot, but Pa finally settled down in South Dakota,…
Our Epic Vacation: Day 1 The day started bright and early. We had packed the car the night before (and believe me, packing for 26 days that include camping, cruising, and staying with family is no easy task), dropped off the puppy at a friend’s house (you’ve never seen sadder girls), and were ready to…
Kanab, Utah is a great place to stay for a family vacation! In 2009 we attended my brother’s wedding in Phoenix. We were living in Cedar City, Utah at the time, so the drive was only about 8-9 hours. We had a lovely weekend celebrating my brother and his new wife, and then we drove…
The best way to improve your photography is simply to learn better photo composition. It’s really easy to just grab the camera and start shooting without even thinking about the composition. And when you shoot without thought to composing the picture, you will often be disappointed with the results. I know I am. This post…