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Family-Friendly Hiking in Orange County
If you’re looking for something more adventurous than a walk around the block, here are three great locations for you to visit with your family. My kids are 3 and 6 (and sometimes lazy) but these are some of the adventures that inspired their legs to keep moving! Bommer Canyon – I knew there was a trail near Turtle Rock Nature Center, I just wasn’t sure where. So we parked at Turtle Rock and followed the trail signs. We ended up taking the paved pedestrian path, the Shady Canyon Trail, to the Bommer Canyon Trailhead in Bommer Meadow. There is a small parking lot there at the trailhead near…
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Latest & Greatest :: The Boxtrolls Review & Giveaway
FROM THE CREATORS OF ACADEMY AWARD®-NOMINATED FILMS CORALINE AND PARANORMAN COMES THE MAGICALLY ANIMATED MOVIE EVENT OF THE SEASON! NOMINATED FOR 13 ANNIE AWARDS! THE BOXTROLLS Heroes come in all shapes and sizes in the family event movie The Boxtrolls. When I saw previews for this movie, I seriously couldn’t wait to see it! The characters are so adorable, yes, the Boxtrolls are cute! And I loved what the this animation studio did with both animated films Coraline and ParaNorman so I figured I would love this movie as well! I hadn’t been that excited to see an animated film in awhile and I absolutely love The Boxtrolls. Starring,…
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Putting the HAHAHA in the HOHOHO
Image courtesy of Flickr It’s December (very much so) and my tree’s up but there’s nothing under it. Unless you count the tree skirt … does that count? And yes, you read that right: nothing under it! I always put a lot of thought into what I get every one. I want them to go “wow, just what I needed” or “I love it” so I do a lot of looking and window shopping [procrastinating]. What happens each and every year and seems to get later and later (pretty soon I’ll be out with all the men on Christmas Eve scurrying … oh who am I fooling I usually am out *lol*).…
