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Road Trip Round Up

April 1, 2014 By Michelle Barneck 2 Comments

Sponsored by Get Away Today.

Whether spring break or summer on its way, it is road trip season. Time to hit the road and see what our country has to offer. Whether short or cross country it’s nice to have some things up your sleeve for entertainment on the road and also little tricks for making the vacation a success. (Oh and be sure to check the bottom of the post for a discount code if you still need to book your vacation!) Here are five of our favorite ideas for making your road trip a memorable one for all the right reasons.

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Road Trip Story Cards

Everyone loves a good story. These cards make it fun to take turns making up stories and with endless combinations and creativity it makes for a great time passer in the car!

DIY T-shirt Totes

These are a cinch to make and so handy to let everyone pack a little bag of treats, activities, and other items needed for the road.

“Are We There Yet?” Road Map and Activity

Help the kids know how much longer with this fun map activity.

A Better Beach Towel

Super simple tutorial on how to transform a beach towel into a poncho perfect for little ones and privacy when you need to change on the beach or at the pool.

DIY Vacation ID Bracelet

Give yourself peace of mind at busy amusement parks by adorning each child with their personalized phone number bracelet in case they are seperated from you.

We love to travel, but know it can be something of a pain to plan all the details. We booked our last two Disneyland trips through Get Away Today. They make it easy to get everything you need from hotels, park tickets, transportation, and more and always have good specials like nights free, adults pay the kids price, etc. I totally recommend checking them out for your next vacation and if you use the discount code Tipsy14 you’ll get $10 off!

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LDS General Conference and Easter Giveaway

March 24, 2014 By Michelle Barneck 60 Comments

UPDATE: Our grand prize winner is Erin Freeman and Jamie Fieber as the runner up! Congrats ladies!

LDS General Conference & Easter Giveaway

General Conference and Easter will both be here before we know it and I couldn’t think of a better time to team up with thirteen of my fellow bloggers to host a fantastic giveaway! Who is excited about $100 to Deseret Book and over $250 worth of amazing products?!

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For this giveaway, we each chose some of our favorite General Conference and Easter-themed items to give back to our readers, just to say thanks for all of the encouragement, comments, and time that you take out of your busy day to check in with us. We really appreciate it! Plus, we hope this will give everyone some great ideas when it comes to entertaining your little ones during Conference or filling those Easter baskets.

Take a minute to meet the lovely ladies who put together this giveaway!
LDS General Conference/Easter Giveaway
Tara – Keep Moving Forward With MeBecky – Love to be in the KitchenJonie – Just Between FriendsMichelle – A Little TipsyAllison – Cupcake Diaries Katie – Clarks CondensedAudra – Reality to DreamsJennifer – My DaylightsAlexis – We Like to Learn As We GoDebra – Housewife EclecticDani – Love Me Dani MarieCambria – Live to be InspiredMelea – Freebies 2 DealsAleisha – She Calls Me Mama Leisha

And now on to the fun! Here are the goodies! Conference LDS General Conference/Easter Giveaway

One grand prize winner will be spoiled with:

          1. $100 Gift Card to Deseret Book courtesy of our blogger team!
          2. $75 Thrive Favorites Package from Krisi Lee, Thrive Life Independent Consultant. This prize package will put you on the right track for preparedness and it includes:
            THRIVE 10 grain pancake mix #10 can
            THRIVE Freeze dried Corn – Pantry Can
            THRIVE Freeze dried Mangos – Pantry Can
            THRIVE Freeze dried Meat or Cheese (your choice of Ground Beef, Chopped Chicken or Monterey Jack Shredded Cheese) – Pantry Can
            THRIVE Honey Crystals – Pantry Can
            THRIVE Macaroons – Pantry Can
            5 in 1 Survival Whistle
            5 Emergency Drinking Water Pouches
          3. Scentsy warmer with plate ($50 value) from Scentsy by Tracy Lynn to keep your home smelling spring-time fresh!
          4. $30 credit to La & Ca Ties to perfectly accessorize your little ones with ties for Easter!
          5. $40 credit to Daylight Digital Designs. Choose from customized invitations and announcements or get custom jewelry for your daughter’s Easter basket!
          6. 2 Missionary Tool Kit card packs ($20 value) from Missionary Tool Kit. These scripture reference cards are designed to work with Preach My Gospel. More than 50 gospel topics in an easy, quick to find format!
          7. Gift Basket ($30 value) from Sego Lily Soaps because Mom needs something in the Easter basket, too! The beautiful gift basket contains: 3 popular luxury soaps – Lavender, Love Spell, and Lemongrass. 24 ounces of all natural Lavender mineral bath salts in a decorative jar. 1 Strawberry Lip Balm, full of good oils and butters, with NO Petroleum or Mineral oil. 1 Mesh Scrubby, to maximize lather and exfoliate your skin
          8. LDS Piano Music Pack from Day Murray Music for the music lover in your family!
          9. Faith in God Study Guide ($8.50 value) from A Lively Hope. It includes: journaling questions for all of the required activities places to draw and doodle questions and activities to help you internalize the scriptures and strengthen your testimony prompts to assist in setting goals copywork to aid in memorization exercises to help you memorize the Articles of Faith pages for additional handouts and photos
          10. Your choice of this dapper bow tie or this bow in coral and white wonderful ($16 value) from The Posh Society.
          11. A Mormon Mom Planner ($29.95 value) from In the Leafy Tree Tops to keep you organized!
          12. A Clicker Kit and special gift from Hilary Weeks. The power of positive thinking is amazing and the clicker kit will help get you on the right track!

Our lucky runner up will get:

            1. $40 Gift Card to Deseret Book
            2. 2 Missionary Tool Kit card packs ($20 value) from Missionary Tool Kit.
            3. Faith in God Study Guide ($8.50 value) from A Lively Hope

Enter in the rafflecopter below and show some love to our gracious sponsors who have provided the prizes! The giveaway runs until March 30, 2014 at midnight. It is full of easy click entries so get to clickin’. a Rafflecopter giveaway

Also, if you missed Saturdays post, be sure to check out our HUGE collection of General Conference Activities and Ideas, too! We’ve got you covered with recipes for conference breakfast and reverent ways to involve your children in General Conference!

General Conference Activities 
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LDS Conference Activities and Ideas

March 23, 2014 By Michelle Barneck 6 Comments

General Conference Activities

LDS General Conference is just two weeks away! Are you ready for it? We’ve teamed up with nine blogger friends to bring you our favorite ideas to make your conference the best experience it can be! Stay tuned for a huge conference themed giveaway coming your way tomorrow! For today, be sure to check out the link up at the bottom of this post to see everyone’s favorite conference ideas! Now for mine! Here is a round up of 10 of my favorite General Conference activity ideas for kids.

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close up multi colored beads heap in box Stock Photo - 99702421. Conference Bracelets
Pick a topic for each color of bead or rainbow loom band and create jewelry based on what people speak on. Then have something fun to wear that will remind you of what you learned.

Haba Colored Building Blocks Accessory Set


3. Conference Building Blocks
Talk about building on a firm foundation and use masking tape to label each block with a topic. Build something (house, temple) using the building blocks of our faith by adding block each time you hear one of the keywords.

4. Pitch Your Tent
Make a tent with blankets facing the opening toward the television screen showing general conference. Read the article and do the color by number of King Benjamin from the August 2001 Friend magazine p. 18-19.

2. Conference Sundae
Earn a new ingredient (banana, ice cream scoop(s), hot fudge, caramel, nuts, whipped cream, etc) for every talk they listen to or take notes about.











5. General Conference Easter Egg Hunt

6. LDS Temple Memory Game
(3 versions: Utah, under construction, reader request)

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7. Easter LDS General Conference Coloring Page


8. Salt Lake Temple Sewing Card
Just print on a photo card, laminate, and add a ribbon taping the end to make it like a shoelace.

Salt Lake Temple Sewing Card

9. Spring General Conference Coloring

10. First Presidency Coloring Page

Be sure to click the images below to see more fun general conference ideas from our blog friends!
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Mom of Boys: Comic Relief for Moms of the Male Variety {round 8}

March 16, 2014 By Michelle Barneck 1 Comment

A few months ago, I began jotting down things I hear from my boys because, well, they make me laugh. It’s now turned in to a Mom of Boys series on the 3rd Sunday of each month. It gives me a good reminder each month why I love my silly boys so much. If you missed our first Mom of Boys posts be sure to go back!
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Let’s explain how this will work and who things were said by…


A = my skinny, karate obsessed, nearly 6 year old  
L = my spunky, snack loving, nearly 3 year old
J = my geeky chic husband
M = me aka mom of boys

 

This is in no way meant to be a parenting lesson. Just a little peek into our crazy and at times comical lives. 

 

Mom of boys…things you never thought you’d hear in your home, then you birthed a boy.
L: Aiden, my rock collection is disappointed of you.
L: Mom, could you lift me up?
I lift him up and he gives me a kiss
L: Now, can you walk over by the fridge?
M: Why do you want to go over by the fridge?
L: Cause I won’t touch stuff on it.
A: Mom, when I die and go to live with God I am going to reason with him really long to find out how he made the planets.
M: You don’t make people laugh at the expense of naughty words.
A: Why are naughty words expensive?
M: Go play with Aiden. Do you want me to get a toy down for you? I have to work on my taxes.
L: No, I want to play tax, but you have to help me.

I am also happy to include my favorites from the comments on last month’s Mom of Boys post: 
M Mommy to Four:
We did have to tell our four year old not to pee down a vacuum tube once. He’d been carrying it around and suddenly my husband saw him in the bathroom with the tube all lined up, ready to go. MAN, am I glad he caught him in time!
Haley Grossman:
When my son was almost 4 we were driving home from my mom’s house and he was freaking out about something…like screaming. I turned the radio way up and I heard him scream something about me being stupid. I turned it down and said “Jackson, did you just call me stupid?” My precious little almost 4 year old screamed back “No, I didn’t call you stupid. I said you are fat, stupid and a bad cook!”. I was shocked, and all I could do was laugh. Is that horrible? And BTW, I am none of those things…maybe that’s why I thought it was funny. 
Last week, the same child had a substitute kindergarten teacher. I told him I had seen her and he said “No you didn’t…what did she look like?” I said “Well, she had brown hair and glasses.” He said “Okay, well was she old?” I said “Yeah, Kind of.” He said ” Okay, well did she have wrinkles?” I said “Yeah, she maybe had a few wrinkles.” He then said ” Okay, well did she have a huge butt?” To which I responded ” Well Jackson, I don’t know. I didn’t see her butt.” He assured me ” Yeah, she did.” 
Honestly…this kid makes my day. 

Have your kids made you laugh lately? What comical things have you said or overheard your kids say? Share in the comments and we will choose our favorites to share in our Mom of Boys post on April 20th.

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