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Let’s Talk Cars… I Test Drove Kelley Blue Book’s Top 5 Cars of 2016 for Dads!

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The KBBDads Test Drove So Many Fun CarsDisclosure: This is a sponsored post on behalf of Life of Dad and Kelley Blue Book. I have received compensation for this post; however, all opinions stated are my own.

A couple weeks back I was cruising down the PCH with my pal Chris Lewis from Dad of Divas. We had the unique opportunity to test drive five of Kelley Blue Book’s 16 top family cars of ‘16. The five that we drove were selected from that group as the top 5 Cars for Dad of 2016. This was the first ever gathering of Kelley Blue Book Dads and we had an exciting task ahead of us. We were to drive each of those five vehicles through various routes and determine which one was our own personal top pick. The cars we drove were the 2016 Subaru Outback, 2016 Chevrolet Tahoe, 2016 Kia Optima, 2016 Toyota Sienna, and the 2016 Honda Civic. With our task laid out before us we got to work. And by work I mean a tremendous amount of fun and driving.

The KBB Dads

The team of intrepid dads consisted of:

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Family, Photo-A-Day

Raising a Scientist takes a Village

Eva and her mentor - Auntie Tara
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Today was Eva’s Open House at the Children’s School of Science in Woods Hole. This is Eva’s second year in the program. Last year she did Seashore Life and this year she was part of Animal Behavior. Eva had a great time these past three weeks. Doing Science School in the middle of the day, enjoying afternoons at the beach and going on Cape Cod adventures. Eva is with her Auntie Tara. Tara is her mentor and hero. They have a very special bond together and Eva is so excited to spend time with her whenever she can. We are deeply indebted and grateful to Tara and Erik for Science School and Eva’s love of Science. This love is constantly cultivated within the family and we can see how Eva is growing in her knowledge and enjoyment of Science.

The kids in the car

I hope that Andrew will follow along in Eva’s footsteps and those of Tara, Shelby and I. We all went to Science School and being there today brought back many fond memories. I was in the photography class and today got to hit the Dark Room and that was some place that I spent a lot of time in.

Also while there I decided that I would try and do some sort of Annual Photo of the kids at the Science School. I should have done it last year but didn’t get the chance. There is this cute piece of playground equipment that looks like a jeep. I figure that it may be around for a little while and I’d get the two kids in that jeep every year to see how they grow and change.

We were actually in Woods Whole twice today. We went to pick up Eva because Tara had to prepare for the Open House, because she is one of the teachers – she does Microbiology. When we picked up Eva we went to Coffee Obsession, or rather Coffee O. We got some drinks and some cookies to share. It was a nice treat. Then we went to the aquarium and Eva was over the top excited about the aquarium. She was watching every fish, pointing them out and identifying them. I was videoing the fish to make a video set to music later. We’ll see if that works out or not.

Our visit was a short one because of parking and the like, I also had to get home to write up my post about our epic 500 balloon, Bunch O Balloons Water Balloons fight. You can see that and our daily vlog on this post 500 Balloon Water Balloon Fight with Bunch O Balloons