I love taking my family on vacations. With a little one it can get complicated when planning your summer vacations. After all, my little guy is only a year old and traveling with him can get a little scary. Luckily, TJ seems to love to travel. Here are some of our fun family vacations activities we take every year. Twitter Mom’s is asking mom bloggers everywhere to post about their family vacation activities. You can learn more here.
- We travel to Idaho every winter and summer to be with our family. If you plan on taking a long trip like this one be sure to pack some baby friendly activities for the plane ride. We try to fly during TJ’s normal sleeping time to make it easier on our fellow travelers. We also take a lot of snacks!
- We go to the “beach”. Well really it is Lake Michigan, but the water is what keeps kids entertained for hours at a time. Get some sunscreen and enjoy yourself.
- We take weekend trips to the amusement parks. We are fortunate enough to have several family friendly parks here in Indiana and close surrounding states. I haven’t taken our little guy there yet, but my family has taken my nieces and nephews and had a blast.
- My family likes to camp. When I was a kid we would take a weekend and hike up into a camping spot and pitch our tents and spend the night. This is a great family activity that doesn’t require a lot cash (once you have the camping supplies).
- I love to go on family picnics. It may not be as flashy as an amusement park, or as adventurous as camping, but packing a light lunch and heading out to the park with my family is one of my highlights of the summer. A day trip is a great way to get out and about and stay active.
Here is TJ in his Porta Crib (A must when you travel with an infant or toddler). We were visiting our family out in Idaho. He loved to travel and he loved his little bed.
I wrote this blog post while participating in the Williamsburg Tourism and TwitterMoms blogging program for a chance to get a $50 gift card. For more information on how you can participate, click here.
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These are great tips, we need to start doing more family things and the beach sounds perfect!
we love taking little day trips to the mountains – those are a lot of fun, or sometimes we’ll just go to where we can see bison or other animals.
Those are all wonderful ways to spend family time together! We go to the beach (hillbilly beach we call it lol) a lot and the flea market for our mini staycations!
What an awesome list of things to do!
We have all of our camping gear and (pre-baby) went camping for our anniversary every year. We haven’t gone with our toddler son because we’re just not sure how to keep him from destroying our campsite with the speed of a ravenous bear. Don’t know why we didn’t think of a pack n play. DUH.
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