Who loves to travel? The feeling of getting away and being out in nature is an amazing feeling!

 Last year we had thrown the idea of full time traveling around but wasn't sure if we should take the plunge. As time passed we seen that living in a large home (five bedroom's, three baths etc.) that we were all always so spread out. The kids were in public school and between going to school everyday, coming home to homework every night followed by dinner and bed. We just did not feel we were getting the time we needed with our children. We wanted the freedom to spend more time with them, do the things we all loved and show them the country.

 

 

March of 2017 we decided to take the leap and hit the road to explore many adventures. We experienced a few blow out's right off the bat. However, along the way the beauty of the nature made up for it!

 

 

 

We enjoyed our nature hikes, going to caves, making s'mores, riding bikes and the pure joy on our children's faces.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 The feeling of sitting outside just relaxing during the sunset or even on a rainy day. It was just so peaceful! We met a few full time families along the way.

Sadly we ended our journey only four months in due to a couple personal reasons. However we truly know where we want to be and our children keep asking to go out and explore way more than we did in the short while we were on the road.

 

I would love to explore more of the United States and who knows where else it may lead us after that. I want to continue contributing
to the amazing bond that our children have and moments like this are just spectacular. They are each other's best friends! You only get one life to live & I want to live it to the fullest. Check back for more parts to our story. Also, comment below if you have any questions about full time traveling.

 
 
 
 
 

 

Fun, Food and Family America's Incredible Pizza Company is the place to find it all! Incredible Pizza Company delivers high energy and a quality experience for the entire family. After enjoying our freshly homemade buffet; enter our world famous Fair Grounds and play over 100 arcade and carnival style games. Race to the finish line while driving our go karts, get lost in a friendly game of laser tag, get a hole-in-one while playing glow golf, and spin away on the bumper cars and more! So whether you're 6 or 60, enter our fairgrounds and have an incredible time while making memories that will last a lifetime!

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The Hollywood Wax Museum Entertainment Center is a landmark Branson attraction at the center of the Highway 76 strip. Perfect for families. Four attractions, one great ticket price. Their marvelous mix of the best Branson entertainment includes opportunities to rub elbows with the stars at the Hollywood Wax Museum; take the 18 steps to becoming a star at Shoot for the Stars Mini-Golf; discover a princess hidden within Hannah's Maze of Mirrors; and shoot at ravenous werewolves or robot outlaws at Castle of Chaos. 

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 You can't miss the Hollywood Wax Museum Entertainment Center in Branson. Yes, it's the building on Highway 76 being climbed by a giant Great Ape! If you want to get up close and personal with your favorite stars and pose for fun pics with them, the Hollywood Wax Museum is definitely the place for you. While there, you'll also get the scoop on their pets, pet peeves, and accomplishments. After seeing stars, you can head next door to become a star at Shoot for the Stars Mini-Golf. While putting through palm trees and paparazzi, you'll take the 18 steps to becoming one of Hollywood's elite. After "being discovered," you'll enter a virtual world and test your shooting skills against ravenous werewolves or robot outlaws inside the Castle of Chaos, a 5D adventure. Finally, you'll score big if you're The Chosen One at Hannah's Maze of Mirrors, where Princess Hannah of Savannah is awaiting rescue. You'll need to find your way through 288 potential turns among hundreds of mirrored walls and archways and some areas where you see infinite reflections in every direction. 

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Who loves Silver Dollar City? We do! Look at all the excitement going on this Fall & Winter season! Check it out below.

SILVER DOLLAR CITY FESTIVALS TO COME:

FALL: NATIONAL CRAFTS & COWBOY FESTIVAL (September 13 - October 28)

For fall, Silver Dollar City presents the National Crafts & Cowboy Festival, featuring some of the nation's finest craftsmen and authentic cowboys. The festival presents a Wild West Show with trick riders, ropers and a world-champion Native American Hoop dancer; Western music; a barn dance, and 125 visiting craftsmen. Best of Missouri Hands juried artists demonstrate their art and fall harvest foods are served up September 13 - October 28 at the Branson, Missouri theme park. 

NATIONAL CRAFTS & COWBOY FESTIVAL 

The Home of American Craftsmanship presents the nation's largest festival of demonstrating craftsmen, with entertainment and activities saluting the Great American Cowboy:

Over 125 visiting craftsmen from around the country demonstrate their art, including Best of Missouri Hands juried artists, all joining Silver Dollar City's 100 demonstrating craftsmen.

Silver Dollar City's Wild West Show features trick riders, Native American dance with 8-time World Champion Native American Hoop Dancer Nakotah LaRance, comedy canines, and trick roper and bullwhip artist A.J. Silver.

Legendary Western actor and watercolor artist Buck Taylor hosts "Buck Taylor's Cowboy Emporium," featuring a variety of Western crafts.

Plus Chuck Wagon & Food Network Chef Kent Rollins and Extreme Mustangs are featured in the Red Gold courtyard.

A Western Barn Dance presents kick-up-your-heels fun, with a live band.

Western music with groups including The Malpass Brothers, The Home Rangers, Belinda Gail and Kristyn Harris, 2016 Western Music Association Entertainer of the Year.

NEW: The nation's pioneer culinary heritage comes to life with campfire cooking and cowboy cuisine, including Cowboy Beef Stew and Dutch Oven Desserts.

This event draws approximately 300,000 visitors each year.

Images at: 

Website: www.silverdollarcity.com

Festival history: Silver Dollar City began the fall crafts festival tradition in 1963, bringing in visiting craftsmen in addition to the park's growing resident crafts colony, with the goal of showcasing the makers along with the finished artwork. More than half a century later, a unique feature still is that all visiting crafters, as with the park's own, demonstrate their work so guests see the process, the skill and the creativity of true craftsmanship. This became the nation's largest festival of demonstrating craftsmen. The focus on authentic craftsmanship was one of the reasons the U.S. Congress in 2010 proclaimed Silver Dollar City the "Home of American Craftsmanship." In addition to craftsmen, Silver Dollar City added features with another American icon several years ago, the cowboy, to carry on the festival as The National Crafts & Cowboy Festival.

AN OLD TIME CHRISTMAS (November 4 - December 30)

Our An Old Time Christmas festival, this year adding a huge new area: Christmas in Midtown, with towering light displays 9 stories high, animated figures in lights, and 1.5 million additional lights, bringing the park total to over 6.5 million lights! Christmas in Midtown is our largest single lighting expansion in the past 20 years of this festival. Details below:

One of the nation's most acclaimed Christmas festivals, profiled by USA Today, CNN Travel, The Travel Channel and Good Morning America, is even bigger and brighter this year with an all-new area:

NEW: Christmas in Midtown, a 70,000 sq. ft. area filled with new light displays 9 stories high, including 30 angels, animated reindeer pulling a sleigh, 3 light tunnels, two 40-foot long moving trains, dozens of stars and snowflakes, and a 50-foot tree, all created at Silver Dollar City. Christmas in Midtown, the largest single lighting expansion to date in the past 2 decades of the festival, adds 1.5 million new lights, bringing the park's total to 6.5 million lights!

Rudolph's Holly Jolly Christmas Light Parade, led by the most famous reindeer of all, features musical lighted floats with 200,000 lights accompanied by 33 costumed characters.

Rudolph's Christmas Town, where kids can meet Rudolph, Clarice and Bumble, also includes activities from Reindeer Games to cookie decorating.

Two original musical productions present Broadway-style experiences, with elaborate sets and talented casts: It's a Wonderful Life, adapted from the Frank Capra classic, and the acclaimed production A Dickens' Christmas Carol.

The Christmas on Main Street light & sound show features the 5-Story Special Effects Christmas Tree with over 350,000 colorful LED lights.

Tinker Junior's Toy Shop is an interactive show for kids featuring a 12-foot talking and singing Christmas tree.

Kids can meet Santa in Santa Claus Lane, illuminated in colorful lights.

Plus, the festival presents holiday shows, a musical Living Nativity, shows, rides, shopping and new Silver Dollar City dining specialties. 

During An Old Time Christmas, Silver Dollar City is open Thursdays - Sundays, plus Wednesdays Nov. 22 and December 20, and open after Christmas Dec. 26-30. 

Hours and schedules are at http://www.silverdollarcity.com/theme-park/Festivals/An-Old-Time-Christmas

Also, do not forget about the ShowBoat Branson Belle this season!

There are such amazing entertainers that put on a show during your lunch or dinner event. What a pretty view! 

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Come back and leave a comment about your memories made at any of these places! I've love to hear all about it. :)

Amazing Pets at Grand Country Music Hall

You will LOVE the Amazing Pets show at Grand Country Music Hall. Featuring exciting acts and tricks from a troupe of skilled DOGS and TRAINED HOUSECATS, this show is a Hit!

Starring an amazing cast of furry creatures, these pet will win your hearts as they perform for your love and laughter. Many have been rescued from animal shelters across the country.

In addition to talented dogs and cats doing what they like to do, you'll see beautiful exotic birds and many other magical surprises that will put a smile on your face!

After the show be sure to head over the the Fun Zone for a round of Laser Tag and a race around the track on the indoor go-carts! Then get cooled off by Missouri's first indoor waterpark, Splash Country Indoors.

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What is "Articles By Amber" ?

Hi Everyone! 

I wanted to take the time to tell you a little about my family along with what this blog will consist of. My name is Amber. I am a mother to four wonderful children. I have three girls and one boy. They are ages 10, 9, 7 & 5 years old. I am happily married. My husband & I have been together twelve years and married ten. <3 

         Here are a couple photos of my family.

So, what is "Articles By Amber" going to be about? 

This blog is going to consist of alot of topics actually. 

This blog is going to be about motherhood, schooling, traveling, deals/savings/freebies, reviews and just everyday life. There will be alot I share with you all so be sure to go up to the top of this page, on the left hand side click on "Follow". Then you will be notified when I have made a post. If there is anything you would like to have me write about, please use the contact form on the left hand side of this page and I would be glad to read your messages!