Hi guys and welcome to the Family Fudge. I am Jennifer and I'm super excited that it's summer road trip season again. Now last year I shared my top five essentials for a successful family road trip and today I'm back to share five more ideas but this time the whole family is gonna help. Jackson's gonna share some fun snack ideas. Lily's gonna share her favorite activities for the car. Mackenzie's gonna show you how she helps keep everything organized and then my husband and I are gonna share some safety tips with you and we're also gonna share with you an app that can help you be prepared in case there's any emergencies on your trip. So stay tuned. Before we get started go ahead and hit that red subscribe button if you haven't already and go ahead and give this video a big thumbs up if you'd like it. I also want to give a special thank you to Michelin USA for partnering with me on today's video and without further ado let's get going. For this road trip Jackson is in charge of the snack so what are we packing today Jack? We packed some cheeses some cucumbers, some grapes and some pistachios. All of our favorite things and we're gonna use these new containers these are from easy lunch boxes and they are squares and they have floor low compartments. Right so you can put a sweet thing, a salty thing, a treat, lots of different things in this one compartment. So are you ready to pack up? Let's do it. The purple ones, the pink ones from Mackenzie's, the green ones my mom here, she's gonna pack griffins toddler food. Right he needs special foods. He doesn't eat pistachios and things like that so. And grapes that were full. Yeah he has to have slice. Right he can't have full grapes yet. I'm gonna put a little bit of these cucumbers in each. I'm all done. Good job Jackson. I love these snack containers because you can put a variety of items and I went ahead and went for items that were not gonna be super messy in the car. These are small enough that the kids can keep them with them in their seats that don't pick up a lot of space and these things that I chose don't need to be refrigerated so it's awesome. Oh yes and these things do not leave their great. Now Lily's gonna share with us some of our favorite activities for the car. Now these types of games are actually made for the car and they're great. We found them in a dollar spot at Target so they weren't expensive. I really like that they have a metal case to put it away in because that's so important to stay organized during your road trip is to have somewhere to put the toys away and this is excellent too because the kids can play with each other because it's a tic-tac toe game but they can also play with it by themselves because it's a play scene so they can move a little magnets around and just do it like that or they can play tic-tac toe. So this one is vehicles and then this one is superheroes. We also have road tripping up. That's the right. These are all from a dollar spot of Target so they weren't expensive at all and I really like these because they're reusable. They're a nice cardboard piece with these little doors that actually open and close as the kids find them along the way so totally reusable. Great for just a dollar and the kids could actually play you know each other and they can all do it or just one child could do it. If you've never heard of a boogie board there are a lot of fun. The kids can ride on there and then erase it and just play over and over. This one was actually from Costco and it's the new version. I like that it comes with two pens in case one gets lost and this one also comes with three bonus stencils so the kids can draw and draw. It's not gonna make a mess. It's not crant. It's not markers. They can erase it and use it over and over again. For our road trip we're using this back seat organizer. Sorry we got it on Amazon and it's really handy and what's good about this specific one is that it's reinforced on the edges. Once you put all of your items in it's not gonna sag and this actually goes on the back of either the driver seat or the passenger seat but this one's gonna go right in front of McKenzie right so you can help and you can reach everything. So what did you show us what's inside? Okay first we have this pencil pouch. You can take it off and inside there's pencils. Cool and what might you use pencils for? Drawing, Madness. It's a fun game where you fill in the blanks. So you can play it with your brother and sister and you make a appearance story. What else do you have in there? We also have some DVDs for the DVD player. We also have this remote for the DVD player. Which is such a good idea because we have lost several remotes already so I'm glad that it finally has a home so won't get lost. Okay what else? We have tissues, the iPad and wipes. And we have these wipes for Griffin's nose. Yeah those are boogie wipes that really help clean noses. We have a little toy right here. There's room for toys in there. And I have my drink right here. And a snack for Griffin. And you can take out the iPad right so they don't have to have it. It tucks right back there in the top. Right here. We have emergency diapers. Right so if I forget my diaper bag which sometimes does happen we at least have one diaper for Griffin and we have one colubb for Lily just in case you never know when they're in the accident gonna happen. So yeah this is actually not even full. We could fit even more in there. So I'm really happy that these things can just stay in the car. They'll be off the car floor and they're not going to go flying around the car because they're all secure within these pockets. Okay so we've talked about snacks. We've talked about activities. We've talked about how to keep it all organized. But now I want to talk about something that's really important when it comes to road trips and that is safety. First step I want to talk about tires. Now honestly last year from my road trip the last thing I was thinking about was the tires but it's so important. Recently my husband and I had the opportunity to see this firsthand. When we attended the Truth About More Entires event put on my Michelin in South Carolina. There we learned that the brakes don't stop your car. The tires actually stop your car. So it's so important to know how your tires are going to perform over time. So while we were at this event we actually got to get behind the wheel of several test cars and try out new tires versus worn tires and it was a wet track. So we were slipping and sliding everywhere. It was so fun but it was also really enlightening. I had no idea that some brands worn tire could actually perform better than other brands new tires. Do you know what I'm saying? I know it sounds weird but it's true and we got to feel that firsthand. So you definitely need to check your tires. Any time you're going on a big road trip. So obvious slippage again right? But note how slow we're going when these slips are happy. It's 20,000 hours. Yeah, how's that feel? It feels like I'm sliding. So you say you're from California right now? Oh my god, it feels like sliding! I think I will think hard about how old the tires are that I have on my vehicles at home. We also learned some simple ways to test to see if we need to replace the tires. Have you guys ever heard of the penny test? It's a simple way to check. You just stick a penny in the tread of your tire and if you see the top of Abraham Lincoln's head then you know you need to replace your tires. Another thing you can do is ask your dealership when you buy your tires about the performance rating of worn tires. Not a lot of information is available so you definitely start that dialogue whenever you're buying new tires. Now lastly I'm going to share a really easy way for you to be prepared on your road trip in case of an emergency. Of course we never want to have an emergency when we're on the road but just in case we do we want to be prepared. But some people might not know where to start and what they should bring. So I have an app for that. The app is called Para. It's all about preparing today to thrive for tomorrow. Now on this app you can actually find lots of different helpful checklists of things that you need for a different emergency situation so you can find a toddler survival kit, a basic first aid kit, a list on food storage and they're really awesome thing about these checklists is that they're put together by experts who really know what you need in an emergency situation. This app also makes it easy to inventory the items that you have and it also gives you an easy way to find these items if you want to purchase them. It's like a one-stop shop for it all. So the list that I'm using for our family road trip is the complete basic vehicle kit. There's 22 different items things that you might need in any emergency. So you can go through the list and see what you have, what you still need to get. This definitely takes a lot of the guesswork out of being prepared because they tell you what you need, they tell you where you can get it, it makes my life a lot easier. Okay guys, there you have it. Five more ideas to hopefully make your next family road trip a success and a safe one. Thank you so much for watching and I'll see you next time.