We finally made it back to Walt Disney World, this time we stayed at Bay Lake Towers at the Contemporary Resort. Our first trip was in 2019 when the kids were four and 22 months. They are now seven and four. One of my favorite things about this trip was that it was a total […]
Category: Travel
Northern Maine and Bangor, December 2021
Over Anika’s Christmas Vacation in December, 2021 we headed to Northern Maine for a few days. My sister in law and her husband own a house in the area. They were away, but let us use their adorable home as our own private Airbnb. We made multiple day trips to explore near by Bangor, Maine. […]
Eagle Mountain House and Jackson NH, Holiday Trip
Last December 2021, we surprised our kids with a trip to the Eagle Mountain House Hotel in Jackson, New Hampshire. We had been here in the summer but this was our first trip in the winter. We checked into the hotel and ate the pizza in our room that we had picked up on the […]
Golden Apple Inn and Storyland, Glen NH
At the very end of last summer 2021, right before school started, we squeezed in a quick trip to the White Mountain area, specifically Glen New Hampshire, to stay at the Golden Apple Inn and visit Storyland. Storyland was a total hit with the kids, as usual. We learned this trip that Jake is quite […]
Thomas Point Beach Camping Trip, August 2021
Last August 2021 we took our annual trip to Thomas Point Beach Campground in Brunswick Maine. This is a favorite camping spot for us and we also love the surrounding area. We stuck to hanging out at the campground this trip but if you’d like to see more of what’s around Thomas Point Beach and […]
Thomas Point Beach Campground, August 2020
Aka the time we accidentally went to a reggae festival So far this summer we have exclusively explored the mountains, but this camping trip we shifted direction and headed to the coast. Thomas Point Beach Campground, in Brunswick Maine was our destination. Thomas Point Beach is a quirky campground set on a bay in MidCoast […]
Our Starcraft Pop Up Camper
Meet Mae. She’s the newest addition to our family, a 2006 Starcraft Pop Up Camper. We named her Mae because we purchased her on a lovely May spring day and she is just so adorable that she needed a sweet, dainty name. Jamie and I started talking about getting a camper of some sort pre-pandemic. […]
Vacation…when things don’t go as planned.
Recently we went on vacation to Folly Beach, South Carolina. We had a wonderful time but I can say with 100 percent certainty things definitely didn’t go as planned. There were several moments of disappointment scattered throughout. Nothing horrible and it was all definitely first world problem nuisances. As I look back on these moments […]
South Carolina (Folly Beach) Trip 2020
We first discovered Folly Beach when Anika was just about to turn three and I was quite pregnant with Jake. On a whim, we took a final trip as a family of three to Charleston, South Carolina. It had been on our list of places to visit for a while and checked all the boxes […]
North Conway Hampton Inn and Suites Trip January 2020
My mom and stepdad did phenomenal it when it came to Christmas gifts this year. For Jamie and I, a one time whole house cleaning by a professional. It was incredible. My shower has never been this clean. It has been so much easier to maintain the whole house now that we have been gifted […]