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My favorite sunscreen!
Let’s talk about sunscreen for a minute… It wasn’t until a couple summers ago that I stopped despising children’s sunscreen. When I think back to the stickiness, the white pastey look to their skin, the constant shaking of the bottles to get it to come out…it makes me shiver! We tried sprays but the girls hated when it would get near their eyes and somehow we’d always miss streaks of skin. All of that changed when we ran out of sunscreen on a trip to Florida and had to purchase some from the gift shop…Hallelujah! We FINALLY found a sunscreen lotion that we all loved! I am truly not just…
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Broomfield, What’s a Nature Play Area??
Last fall, a brand new park opened in Broomfield, Colorado so of course we had to check it out! McKay Lake Nature Play Area is one of the most creative playgrounds we’ve seen! Address: 2301 W 138th Ave, Broomfield, CO 80023 Recommended ages: Elementary (playground & small bike park) through High School (large bike park https://broomfield.org/BikePark) Do you have kids under the age of 6? What you should know is that your kids will enjoy the park but that it isn’t the kind of place where you sit and they go play. It is amazing and creative, however, there are many parts of the park where you will lose sight…
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How it all began…
“Hi! I’m Leslie, Leslie Knope from the Parks Department.” I think that’s where it truly began… A television character inspired me and I began to embrace a love of all things Parks and Recreation. More specifically though, four years ago I was about to spend my first summer as a work from home mom with three girls ages 7, 4 and 8 months. I was CLUELESS on how to spend all that time out of school without spending a fortune finding fun activities! Then inspiration hit and, in true Leslie Knope fashion, we came up with our #parktour, a mission to find the coolest playgrounds in the area! The girls…
