Welcome to our Road Trip Series! If you are just joining, start here or scroll down for links to all the Road Trip Series posts. Drive Day Our first day was a long drive day. We drove from our home near Seattle to Bozeman, MT. We had a few different reasons for this. First, I knew we'd all be really excited and that excitement means that boredom and whining would be at a minimum. It worked. The ...
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ROAD TRIP: PACKING CLOTHES + THE VEHICLE
Welcome to our Road Trip Series! If you are just joining, start here or scroll down for links to all the Road Trip Series posts. This situation might have scared me the most. I am a notorious over-packer. I mean, what if the weather changes? What if we need to go to and posh restaurant AND to a party? I definitely need two dresses. Maybe three, just in case I'm not feeling one of them. ...
ROAD TRIP: CAMPING PREP
Welcome to our Road Trip Series! If you are just joining, start here or scroll down for links to all the Road Trip Series posts. Of course, there's prep for food, keeping them busy, and all the planning that goes into the actual route and activities but there was a lot of miscellaneous stuff that needed to get done before our trip. I needed to figure out the packing situation, the laundry ...
ROAD TRIP: FOOD PLANNING
Welcome to our Road Trip Series! If you are just joining, start here or scroll down for links to all the Road Trip Series posts. Remember that handy-dandy calendar I made for planning out our trip? I kept it on the fridge for months so I could continue to refer back to it as we were planning all the little details. I pulled it down to help with meal planning. I had three planning options for ...
QUICK AND EASY ENERGY BITES
These little balls of goodness are a favorite around here. They come together quickly and seem to disappear almost as fast. I first found the recipe on Smashed Peas and Carrots and tweaked for our tastes. The original calls for coconut flakes but we are a tree nut-free home due to allergies so we substitute crispy rice cereal or finely-ground granola. As she says, this recipe is so darn ...
BUTTERMILK PROTEIN PANCAKES AND WAFFLES
This recipe is our family's go to for pancakes and waffles. I'm not sure where the recipe came from, to be really honest. I've had it for years and we've tweaked it to work for us. When we got a waffle maker for Christmas one year, I converted the recipe to work in it. I like to make a double batch and then either freeze the batter in a gallon freezer Ziploc, or make it all and freeze the pancakes ...