I have lived near Lexington, Kentucky for about 13 years but just recently visited Raven Run Nature Preserve for the first time. This Preserve is only 15 minutes from the city and offers some amazing hikes, views and places to experience nature. Raven Run Nature Preserve Raven Run Nature Preserve may have been a secret…
What do your kids do when it’s raining outside? Watch TV? Play Video Games? Complain that they’re bored? One recent rainy day my kids pulled out the kitchen table chairs, all the sheets they could find and enough stuffed animals to stock a zoo. What was the plan? They were going to build a rainy…
My family loves to get out and take a hike through the woods. Last week while we were hiking together I started thinking about reasons we love to hike. It’s not because a hike takes you anywhere. You usually end up right back where you started. You get hungry, thirsty and tired. So why spend…
If you like to shop name brand clothes, then you probably know that buying in the mall is not the best way to save money. Periodically we like to shop at the Premium Outlets but we want to make sure we save even more money by finding coupons before we get there.
A few years ago I started looking for pictures of me with my family members. Guess how many I could find that had been taken in the past 10 years? Very few! I was shocked to realize that although I have great family and we spend lots of time together, we had not made a…
It’s hot outside! That means that the kids are spending a little more time indoors. But that doesn’t mean they have to be bored or play electronics all day. I gave the kids a few ideas so they could choose what they wanted to do for the afternoon and then turned my 8 year old…
Yesterday, our family was able to visit Breyerfest 2013 at the Kentucky Horsepark in Lexington. We have visited the Horsepark many times in the past few years but this was our first visit to Breyerfest. Sometimes pictures are the best way to see what an event is all about. Here’s some of our experiences so…
One of the most beautiful places in Louisville where you can enjoy the view of the city skyline and get outside with the family is the Big Four Pedestrian Bridge in Louisville. This bridge links the Louisville Waterfront Park to Jeffersonville, Indiana over the Ohio River. Big Four Pedestrian Bridge The Big Four Bridge is…