Kids Kayaking: The Ultimate Guide For Finding Fall Water in Colorado

Kids Kayaking in the fall in Colorado

We are on the search to find good features in Colorado that are good training grounds for the World Championships in November. It’s not an easy feat as most Colorado rivers rely on snow melt for flows and typically the season is rather short. Once August hits, there are very few rivers running, let alone … Read more

Kellogg family are on a five-year road trip with 12 kids – Daily Mail Online

5 Year Roadtrip

Follow the Link to the Full Story on The Daily Mail … This couple gave up their Colorado home and jobs back in 2012 to live in an RV and roam across America with their 12 children in what was supposed to be a ‘fun vacation’. But five years on, the Kellogg family are still … Read more

Las Vegas Adventures: Adrenaline Junkies Getaway!

Las Vegas Adventures include skydiving!

As you may or may not know, we took our very first getaway without kids.  The first since our honeymoon.  That’s 24 years, y’all. And it was as exciting, fun, romantic and weird as it was hard to be away from our kids.  By the second day, I’m not going to lie, I was ready … Read more

Make a Difference: It’s in the Little Things

Little Things Make a Difference.

There was a point in my life where I really truly thought the local Headline could soon read something like, “Missing Woman Found Dead Under Pile of Clothes”. I mean, being a young mom of tons of sweet, blessed babies, was hard enough, but keeping up with the laundry was impossible.  But I also knew … Read more

Experts Explain The Two Greatest Lessons for Living

Lessons for Living from elderly Americans.

Death has a profound way of affecting your life. You become contemplative, you begin to rethink your life, you evaluate it, you start to discuss Lessons for Living that you have learned over the years. Sadly, Dan and I flew to Houston this past Saturday to attend the funeral of my Aunt Mary.  There is … Read more

Failure on Mount Princeton in the Sawatch Mountain Range

Mount Princeton is one of the many 53 fourteeners in CO. This 14,196 ft mountain is located just outside Buena Vista, CO. While it’s not one of the tallest peaks in Colorado, Mount Princeton is one of the most difficult, rising nearly 7,000 feet above the Arkansas River valley in only 7 miles. Every time … Read more

Raising Environmentally Conscious Kids – Respect Nature

Respect Nature.

As parents, we painstakingly educate our children. We teach them our faith, about money, about sex, about kindness and compassion, we educate them on the ills of drugs and alcohol.  We spend hours upon hours with them on the road, learning how to drive, we introduce them to all our passions, we teach them how … Read more