Grand Teton National Park, 2017
I'm Brittaney. I have three kids and one husband. They are all pretty great. My husband, Ryan, and I have two goals for our kids at they grow:
Grow-up to be self sufficient.
Be someone that others want to be around.
That's it. Two goals. Easy. So, basically, we have this parenting thing nailed. You're welcome. Or, parenting takes a health dose of patience, forgiveness, face-palm moments, love, and laughter to develop kids who are kind, thoughtful, hard working members of society and adults that come out of the experience relatively unscathed.
Ryan and I try to foster these goals in our kids by helping them grow through experiences both within and outside of their own domain. In 2017, those experiences centered around traversing some of the United States' National Parks using our daughters' Every Kid in a Park passes.
Those two, free park passes were the stone that caused many a ripple. We took the plunge and bought a teardrop trailer (which we had been researching for over a year). We added a rooftop tent, researched parks and dutch oven recipes with abandoned, and then we hit the road. From our spring and summer National Park adventures grew an even bigger one--visit all fifty-nine National Parks by the time our youngest (almost four at the time) graduates from high school.
Enter this blog. A record of our travels, both near and far, our successes, and our (many) bumps along the way. We hope that each of the experiences our kids have will act like their own stones dropped into a pond, sending out rings that grow, collide, and enrich the surface. We look forward to meeting you along the way!