Traveling with Little Ones

A couple of years ago, I wrote this blog post, sharing some tips and tricks for traveling with little ones. Pandemic aside, we travel a lot. In the last 7 years, we’ve traveled to 20 states, and 5 countries with our four children (and a couple international trips without kids!). Ron & I both loved to travel before ever meeting each other, and we didn’t want to stop once we had children. Of course travel looks very different now than it did 10 years ago. I’ll be honest, it’s a lot of work, it’s stressful at times, and not always restful. (Am I selling you on traveling with kids yet?) But at the end of the day, it’s so worth it. The memories we’ve shared with our children, the cultures they’ve experienced, the sheer beauty of this world, are all indescribably worth it.

Family Updates, Travel, Parenting, Top Blog PostsBrooke ArevaloMarch 26, 2021Family Updates, TravelComment

...Hello San Diego

A month ago I wrote a blog post entitled “Goodbye NYC…” where we officially shared that we were moving, and I shared memories from the past decade of living in New York. Now it’s time for me to share the other side of this story—where we moved to!

Family Updates, Top Blog PostsBrooke ArevaloAugust 22, 2020Family UpdatesComment

Goodbye NYC...

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It is a place unlike any other, and I have had the privilege to call it home for the past 9 years. I’ve eaten “mad” bagels and ordered countless “pies.” So many trips to the bodega. Killed too many roaches to count. Schlepped my groceries and stroller (sometimes at the same time) up endless flights of subway stairs. Mastered folding up a stroller, while holding children and bags to get on the bus.endless flights of subway stairs. Mastered folding up a stroller, while holding children and bags to get on the bus.

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Jackson Arevalo--Broadway Star!

Our sweet little Jackson, who is not quite 7 months has joined some of the youngest in history to have performed on Broadway!

Kid Updates, Top Blog Posts, Family UpdatesBrooke ArevaloApril 24, 2019Jackson UpdatesComment

Reflections on 2018

Each year I write a blog post about the past year for our family and so here we are again, another year another blog post. 2018 has been quite the ride! In 2017 we had the tragic misfortune of losing a son and so as we started 2018 we were still grieving Roman, he will forever be a missing part in our family and we will miss him dearly until the day we no longer roam this earth.

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Reflections on 2017

Today is the last day of 2017. As I write this there are only 19.5 hours left in this year. In a few hours, the last sunrise will take the place and hundreds of people will start to gather near our home in Time Square to watch the ball drop. In these frigid temperatures they will count down the New Year, 10,9,8... resolutions will be made and broken. Every year I write a blog post reflecting on the last 365 days.

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Our Story

October 30, 2011 is the date that Ron and I met for the first time--exactly 6 years ago today! We often recount the story of how we met, but I have never actually written it down. So today I thought I would write out our story :)

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Reflections on 2016

Today is January 1, 2017. Last night we bid farewell to 2016 with all its ups and down. Last year we ended it with bringing our son into this world, I had just started working a new job toward the end of 2015 and we were excited to see what 2016 had in store for our little family that was rapidly growing.

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Reflections on 2015

I can hardly believe that today is the last day of the year. It feels like this year absolutely flew by. I'm sure there are a lot of things that I will forget to write about, but as I've done for the past two years, I've decided to write a brief overview of the highs and lows that our family experienced in 2015.

Family UpdatesRon ArevaloDecember 31, 2015Family UpdatesComment

Life Update

It has been awhile since I have blogged about a general life update. It's funny because I told myself a couple of weeks ago that I should blog about all of this even amidst the uncertainty and chaos instead of waiting to be on the other side. And of course, I didn't get around to it until today, and things are definitely much brighter now haha! But I wanted to write about this, mostly so I can look back and remember how God carried us through this season.

Family UpdatesBrooke ArevaloSeptember 28, 2015Family UpdatesComment

An Update On Our Move

I thought I would take some time to blog about our apartment hunting journey and move. It's a bit long and perhaps a bit boring to some, but I love to look back and see how God perfectly wove this story...

Family UpdatesBrooke ArevaloJanuary 31, 2015Family Updates Comment

Reflections on 2014

As we close out 2014, with a little less than 12 hours left as I write this post, I just wanted to share some of our thoughts as a family throughout the past year. It has been a pretty crazy year for us, everything from illnesses to job changes, to adjusting to having a toddler now! But It has been a great year too! We rang in the new year last year in Oklahoma, at a good friends home. Aly was about 6 weeks old, and asleep for the night, Brooke was playing Supernintendo with Jamy and I was laying on the couch near by watching TV. Fast forward to today, a lot of things happened from then until now.

Family UpdatesRon ArevaloDecember 31, 2014Family UpdatesComment

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