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#shopcartons to Save Trees this Month!

July 11, 2014 1

Choose CartonsDuring the month of July, you can help donate a tree just by tweeting! The folks at the blog, Choose Cartons, are partnering with Trees for the Future to donate a tree each time the hashtag #shopcartons is mentioned!

By partnering with Trees for the Future, Choose Cartons, an Evergreen Packaging initiative, aims to help replant as many of the valuable resources they use for their packaging as possible.

In fact, they are donating up to 10,000 trees during the month of July. All you have to do is tweet. Pretty cool, huh?

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Choose Cartons is a blog for eco-conscious parents (particularly moms!) that teaches the importance of reducing, reusing and recycling through DIY projects, up-cycled crafts, and fresh ideas. They also speak to the importance of using renewable resources, and as the name suggests, the positive effects of choosing cartons at the grocery store!

Top 3 Reasons You Should Choose Cartons at the Grocery Store:

  1. They are recyclable & renewable
  2. Cartons keep the contents inside super fresh
  3. Cartons take up less space in your fridge so you can buy even more groceries for the kids!

Discover more about Choose Cartons.

Full Disclosure: I received compensation for this sponsored post which wasn’t written by me.

 

 

Coffee on the Beach + A Water Tornado

July 7, 2014 1

Water-Tornado-2A water tornado, otherwise known as a waterspout is exactly that a tornado that forms over water. I remember the first time that I saw a water tornado (waterspout), the mister and I were on our honeymoon in the Florida Keys and were several miles off the coast, snorkeling at a reef. While they were in the distance, I didn’t find it to be scary and wasn’t really even concerned! Since we are camping on the beach, the mister and I like to spend some of our mornings sitting next to the ocean while we drink our coffee, observe wildlife and chat. Last week while in the Florida Keys, we got another show entirely – we sat and watched a large thunderstorm in the distance that was shooting off water tornadoes left and right.

Here are some photos I took of one forming:

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It was very cool to sit and watch them happening in the distance, but now as a mother whose child was a few feet away sleeping the in the RV, I couldn’t help but think, “Please do not get bigger and please do not come this way!”

Have you experienced any interesting summer weather? I would love to hear!

Happy Independence Day!

July 4, 2014 0

Hello, Friends! We are still in the Florida Keys enjoying our family summer vacation. We have been spending our mornings paddleboarding and our afternoons snorkeling and beach-combing. We even spent one entire afternoon relaxing – which means the mister and dogs took a nap, Eben drew and read and I caught up on a little blogging! It was so nice, especially since we spent the entire day before paddleboarding, snorkeling and kayaking (my arms are sore!)

We are still trying to decide how we want to spend our 4th of July evening. Some years while in the Keys, we have visited a nearby town for a 4th of July celebration with fireworks and patriotic music on the beach, other years we have hiked to the top of the old Bahia Honda Rail Bridge and watched a different type of fireworks display, bio-luminescence in the ocean below! To be honest, the latter is my favorite! I have my fingers crossed that is what the boys want to do tonight! And of course, sometime today we have to stop by the marina to pick up an ice-cream cone to cool off!

I hope you are spending the long weekend eating watermelon, sipping lemonade and maybe even snoozing in a hammock with someone you love!

Happy 4th of July!

Have a Weinervention at Your Next Summer Campout!

July 3, 2014 1

Wienervention KitWhat summer camp-out would be complete without a weine roast? Since we have been camping in the Florida Keys for the past week, I felt it was the perfect time to have a weinervention! We had toted along our Weinervention kit from Applegate that included everything that we needed for a tasty hot hog cookout including Applegates hotdogs made from simple natural ingredients; beef (that have never been administered antibiotics or hormones), water, salt and spices. It’s time to say goodbye to those dirty dogs filled with sodium phosphate, sodium nitrate, and who knows what else and switch to a cleaner-weiner!

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We enjoyed ours in simple hotdog fashion: ketchup, mustard and relish served with coleslaw! It was a super fun way to celebrate our first week of camping!

Have you tried Applegate’s Natural Hotdogs? They would be perfect for the 4th of July!

Full Disclosure: I received a Applegate Weinervention Kit to review – however, we purchase a lot of Applegate products that we love and would have shared with you anyway!

Summer Vacation: Beach Camping at Bahia Honda in the Florida Keys

June 30, 2014 1

Bahia-Honda-Beach-SideHello, Friends!

How are you? Are you enjoying the last day of June?

We are on our summer vacation right now – at Bahia Honda State Park in the Florida Keys! We have been stand-up paddleboarding and snorkeling every day –  on one day along we saw countless fish, a spotted stingray, a bonnet-head shark, 2 nurse shark pups, 2 black-tip sharks and 2 sea turtles. Not bad!

The mister has been wearing the GoPro we gave him for Father’s Day, and has taken a lot of amazing footage! I will be uploading them to my YouTube channel when we get home, so you can check them out.

I hope you have some wonderful plans for the upcoming holiday!

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