Saturday-Sunday. Groove to jazz music and exercise your eye for art at the Estes Park Jazz Fest and Art Walk. Galleries around town will be open to the public—guests can stroll about at their leisure. Starting at noon each day, Performance Park hosts live jazz from artists like The Chris Lee and Colleen O’Brien Band, [...]

Love ‘em or hate ‘em but Crocs™ are a summer staple for kids in Colorado (just go to any playground and the majority of kids are wearing them).
Now, your kiddos can be the envy of all their peers by sporting the very first in the Crocs™ Chameleons line: shoes that change color in sunlight.
Seeing [...]

Summer is fragile. It slips by at a dizzying pace. One moment, you are emptying the backpacks and stashing them out of sight.
The next, you’re filling a shopping cart with enough washable markers to decorate the exterior of a family band bus. It’s a good thing the Partridge Family didn’t use washable markers, or a [...]

I thought the name was clever, when I heard of  Mommy Juice Wine.  I can’t tell you how many times I had personally told my kids that what I had was either “an adult drink” or “mommy’s juice.”  And that, apparently, is how Mommy Juice Wines got their name too! My friend and I tried these for Mother’s [...]

I have figured out the “Magic of Disney.” It has nothing to do with Disneyland’s characters, rides, parades, shops or food. That magic has to do with how two children–completely overwhelmed, overheated and exhausted–can whine for hours about the conditions….
….and yet at day’s end forget it all and attest they had the most fun of [...]

The mantra at The Village at Edgewater is simple: it takes a village to raise a child.
And that is why Jaine Murphy, a single mom of a 5-year-old daughter, took one of the greatest risks of her life by opening The Village at Edgewater, a restaurant/play area/learning center for young children.
At the focal point of [...]

Making the decision to have a child is momentous. It is to decide forever to have your heart go walking around outside your body.
~Elizabeth Stone
A few of our favorite Mother’s Day links this week:
*On Being a Good or a Bad Mother
*Our Mother’s Day product picks.
*The Mother-in-law.
Happy Mother’s Day to moms everywhere!
Love,
The [...]

There are two surefire cures for cabin fever: road trips and food festivals.
So why not combine the two?
Colorado’s edible bounty stretches to every border, across diverse terrains and ecosystems. From Olathe’s sun-kissed cornfields to the monsoon-swept ridges of Telluride’s mushroom country and the myriad other flavors that flourish in the state, food fetes are a [...]

Want to get your kids into the dirt? Here are some suggestions for quick- growing, quick-reward plants from Terry Carter of Designs by Sundown and others.
1. Carrots: Kids will enjoy planting the seeds, then thinning them out. You can also start the plants in a glass to watch germination happen. Best of all, it’s a [...]

Our very own Gretchen White was interviewed by Fox 31 about rising fuel and product costs and where they’ve had to cut back!
 
Has your family had to alter their spending habits?