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The Black Hills 2022: Part 2

Posted on July 20, 2022July 21, 2022 by Lauren Lane

Over the week of the Fourth of July, my family and I packed up the car and headed to South Dakota to spend a week in the Black Hills visiting my parents. They have a cabin just outside of Deadwood. I look forward to going up there for a week every year. It’s cool, crisp, and the mountain air is perfection.

If you missed Part 1 of our trip, I blogged about it yesterday HERE!

Part 2 starts with a hike on the Mickelson Trail. Baby J absolutely LOVED this hike. In fact, even though we took the stroller, Harrison rode in the stroller most of the time and Jonathan walked!

The Black Hills 2022: Part 1

Posted on July 19, 2022July 21, 2022 by Lauren Lane

We got back last week from a trip to the Black Hills in South Dakota to visit my parents. For those that are new here, a bit of history on the Black Hills for my family, because this isn’t going to be a typical travel post about what we did and where we ate!

My parents grew up at the foot of the Black Hills in Rapid City, SD. My maternal grandparents bought some land in the Black Hills before my living memory, and lived in the Hills pretty my entire childhood. As kids, we’d always spend a week in the Hills visiting my grandparents. My sister and I have wonderful memories in the Hills growing up. We’d catch and release chipmunks, go camping, feed the deer, hike (I hated hiking growing up, though), and just generally lived outside in nature for a week.

Years ago, my parents bought land in the Hills as well, and in 2014 built a cabin on that land. They spend their summers living at the cabin, and the rest of the year they live in Kansas City. Thus began our own family annual pilgrimage to the Hills once a year.

Entertaining A Toddler on a Plane

Posted on November 12, 2019November 9, 2019 by Lauren Lane

We took a couple of different trips this past summer with Harrison. He was very, very mobile, uninterested in screentime for any length of time at this point, and he is suuuuuper active and physical. Basically, I’m telling you that being trapped on a plane with Harrison on our laps for hours on end was like gearing up for our Super Bowl. Child vs. Parents. Who would win? Would we all be in a good mood leaving the plane? Or would we embarrassingly shuffle out with a screaming child?

I’m happy to report that we survived both sets of flights. Surviving is key. That is the most basic of goals. But we were able to keep Harrison pretty well entertained for hours on end. Here are some of the activities I brought to keep our little man busy.

Tuesday Talk – Roadtripping Help Needed!

Posted on August 20, 2019August 18, 2019 by Lauren Lane

I need advice. We’ve conquered traveling with Harrison by air. I even wrote about the things I wish I had known before traveling with a toddler by air.

We did roadtrips last year when Harrison was still a teeny tiny baby. And while traveling by car is not my preferred mode of transportation, it’s a necessary evil.

5 Things I Wish I Had Known About Traveling with a Toddler

Posted on August 1, 2019July 28, 2019 by Lauren Lane

We recently got back from our first trip as a family. Nathan and I loved traveling when it was just the two of us, and it was really important to us that Harrison grow up understanding the importance of being flexible, that comes with travel, not to mention the exposure to people that aren’t just like him – different cultures, history, etc.