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Favorite Road Trip Essentials for Kids // Skeeter Nut Free

August 26, 2016

With school starting this week, we decided to head out on one last summer adventure as a family. A road trip up to Bear Lake on the border of Utah and Idaho ended up being the perfect farewell to summer! We found the most amazing Glamping Resort called Conestoga Ranch, that was just what we were looking for, and made it so easy for us to just show up and enjoy our time together. The kids ran around the ranch and played hide n’ seek, ate s’mores and told stories by the fire, played make believe in the tent, and even got to sleep in a covered wagon one night! They were in absolute heaven!

Our kids have always been great little road trippers and travelers. Ever since they were young, I have always taken the time to pack each of them a little travel pack to take with us on our travels to keep them occupied and happy. It has always worked like a charm. The key is I never tell them what I am going to put inside, and I don’t allow them to break into the pack until they really start to get antsy during the trip.

Here are a few of my favorite travel pack essentials I like to pack for my kids:

Skeeter Nut Free: Usually it isn’t five minutes into the trip before my kids start asking for a snack. Instead of having to haul around all the snacks for everyone, I like to pack them in their travel packs so they have access to a snack when they are ready. My family loves these Skeeter Nut Free snacks. They come in several different flavors, and are the perfect little snack to pack along for a trip. These delicious cookies are also nut-free and produced in a facility without nuts, so you don’t need to worry about traveling with passengers with nut allergies. It wasn’t until recently when my kids started going to school with friends with severe nut allergies that I realized the importance of having good snack options that are both safe and inclusive for everyone. It isn’t enough for them to have snacks that do not contain nuts, but they also have to be produced in facilities that are totally nut-free. Any little speck of tree nut or peanut can send them into Anaphylaxis, and could threaten their life. I had no idea that this was an issue, and I’m so glad that there are companies like Skeeter Nut Free around to help bring awareness and provide good options for safe snacking in my kids’ nut-free classrooms. As a mom who is constantly checking labels, I appreciate that all of their snacks are made from all natural ingredients, free of high fructose corn syrup, made with whole grains, and are free of trans fats. You can find their products through the store locator online or Skeeter Nut Free is also sold at Target and on Amazon!

Easy Grilled Chicken with Lemon and Herbs Recipe

July 26, 2016

It has been SO hot around these parts this summer, that the last thing I want to do is turn on the oven in the house, let alone cook! I’ve been trying to think up some quick and easy dinner ideas so that we can spend the day out at the pool, and still come home to a nice home cooked meal. There have been way too many nights around here lately where we get home from our summer activities without any plan in place on what to make for dinner. It has been a struggle with schedules being thrown out the window, and routines being all over the place. But, I am hoping to simplify with some healthy meal ideas that don’t take a lot of planning and preparation.

My absolute favorite place to shop for my meat is at Harmons Grocery. It is by far the best place to buy meat here in Utah, and the quality can’t be beat! I am excited to partner with Harmons Grocery today to share with you a quick lemon and herb chicken marinade that is simple and brings a lot of fresh summery flavor to your grilled chicken! The perfect meal that can be thrown on the grill outside without heating up the entire house and making those energy bills soar. (Read More for the Recipe)

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Staying Cool Solutions with Frigidaire Gallery Cool Connect

July 22, 2016

We have been loving our new home, working on home improvement projects, and settling in over the last little bit. It’s funny when you move to a new place, you have to figure out the house, and which room is the hottest or coldest. Which one has a draft, or gets too much light.

Our master bedroom probably gets the most evening sun out of all the rooms in the house. With several windows facing west in the dead of the Utah summer heat, it gets blasted every evening just in time to wind down in our room for the night.

The master bedroom ends up being significantly hotter than the rest of the house for a lot of the day, and turning down our air for the entire rest of the house would cause our electric bill to soar.

A great solution to our problem has been our new Frigidaire Gallery® Cool Connect Air Conditioner. It is a small Air Conditioning unit you can easily install into any room! The best part is that you can control it through an app on your mobile devices. You can schedule different temperatures at different times, which has really helped with those key times the sun heats up our room, so we can be nice and comfortable, especially when we are ready to go to bed at night. And, for those especially hot Utah summer nights, it is nice to be able to turn the fan up or turn down the temperature from bed without having to get up! I also really like the sleek white design, as you all know design is always important to me!

It has been nice to be able to keep our room as cool as the rest of our house, saving money by not having to blast the air in the rest of the house too. We have been enjoying spending time in there hanging out, resting, and reading together feeling comfortable instead of too hot!

Be sure to head over to Frigidaire.com to learn more!

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