4th Birthday Celebration

Happy Monday everyone! Hope your weekend was treating you well.

I am beyond thrilled to share some really awesome news with you today! A little over a month ago I was contacted by the team at Kimberly-Clark and its coupon website, Pick Up the Values, with a fantastic partnership opportunity for their Celebrate Family Values program. In case you have not heard of Pick Up the Values, they are an online coupon website that provide creative solutions to help families save time and money.  They asked me to do a series of posts with them throughout May and June to share our own creative, time-saving solutions that helped us free up time so we can focused on what matters most: spending time with our loved ones.  I have some exciting content planned for you, and I hope you will be as excited in celebrating family values as I am!  To kick things off today, I am sharing our most recent family trip for our twins’ 4th birthday celebration at Legoland.

Our twins just turned 4. We had a huge party for them with around 40 guests when they turned 3 with lots of family and friends. This time around we wanted to try something different.  Since the twins are so into legos we thought they would enjoy celebrating their birthdays at Legoland with just the 4 of us instead.  We both work full-time, but we always carve out time to spend time with each other from taking long walks almost daily to short distance road trips to family vacation trips twice a year or whenever we can. Vacations can get pricey for a family of 4 so whenever there’s an opportunity to take a shorter distance trip we jump on it.  Such opportunity presented itself a few months ago when we spoke with a friend living in San Diego suggesting us to visit.

Since San Diego is only a couple hours away from our home traveling with the twins in the car was easy. They are great travelers in general, but that didn’t happen overnight.  Our family travels by car frequently and over the years we’ve been able to come up with three successful tips to make it enjoyable and pain-free for everyone.  Tip #1, we played “name that tune” game.  Their dad would hum a few notes from their favorite shows like Kailou, Spiderman, etc. and they would guess the name.  Tip #2 was the spelling game.  We had them spell 3 letter words like cat, dog, hat, etc.  Tip 3 was packing their favorite snacks packaged in individual ziploc bags.  Each hour that passed they received a new bag with a different snack.  Of course, we had our IPad charged as our last resort. Luckily, we didn’t need to do that because the tips helped pass the time not to mention how perfect the weather was.

Overall, the trip was better than expected.  What we love most about this experience was having fun and spending time together as a family in every stage of the trip from the car ride to the rides at the park itself, to the movie nights at the pool and even the disco themed elevator rides in the hotel which we couldn’t get enough of.  Although this time around this birthday was a party of 4 versus 40 we didn’t mind one bit.  Sometimes less is more.

Disclosure:  Thank you Kimberly-Clark for sponsoring this post.  As always, all opinions are my own.

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