Sunday, July 31, 2016

Silk Dairy Free Yogurt Alternative #Review #Sponsored

My family and I love Yogurt and are always up for trying a new brand so when I got selected by Crowdtap to try Silk's new Dairy Free Yogurt I was very excited to see how it would taste. There were several flavors to choose from but I chose Peach & Mango.
I was a bit nervous that it would have an aftertaste but this yogurt was amazing. If I hadn't read that it was dairy free I would never have been able to tell. It had a great smooth taste and I really enjoyed the flavor. I can not wait to try many more of the flavors soon. This was a great product and I know it will help a lot of my friends out who can't have dairy. 

I was given a free product coupon from Crowdtap and Silk in exchange for my review. All the words here are my own. 

Tuesday, July 26, 2016

Silk Nutchello #Review #Sponsored

What kind of product am I going to tell you about today. I mean look at that face- it must taste pretty good. :) Silk's Nutchello is a new nut based beverage, that they suggest you drink on ice which is what I did in the picture but I found out later I prefer just to drink it without the ice. They have three wonderfully delicious flavors. Rich Dark Chocolate +Walnuts (this is the one I tried) Carmel Almonds + Cashews and Toasted Coconut + Cashews.   
I really enjoyed the sweet taste a lot and there was a nutty flavor too. I was excited to be able to share about this product with my aunt who can't have much milk or soy- so this is a great tasting alternative and many people who have the issues with the cow's milk and soy products will be happy to see that a company like Silk is looking out for them. 

Thank you to Silk and Crowdtap for providing me with a sample of this product in order for my honest review. All the words spoken here are my own. 

Thursday, July 21, 2016

Hill’s® Science Diet® Healthy Cuisine cat food #Review #Sponsored

We are kind of new to this whole having a cat thing, we tried it last year and someone kept taking our cat so this year when our neighbors moved we said we would keep one of their cats. This is not that cat! That was a male cat but he brought his female friend with him. Then we left on vacation and our male cat isn't around but we are glad to still have our female!! She is glad that Butterscotch took a break from us because we have been trying out Hill's Science Diet Healthy Cuisine and the way she gobbles it up I know she would not be very happy if she has to share. The ingredient list is full of meat and rice and veggies and it smell almost good enough for me to taste (I restrained myself though!) It will be funny because if I set this out and her dry food out she will completely jump over her dry food to get to this. She gives it two paws up or four not sure how cats vote. She has been able to try Roasted Chicken and Rice, Seared Tuna and Carrot Medley and Poached Salmon and Spinach- I can't say that she has a favorite because she really just loves them all!


Lightening says thank you to Crowdtap and Hill's Science Diet for sending us some free samples for her to try. All the words here are her owners.

Tuesday, June 28, 2016

Tryazon Sterno S'mores party and review

Sterno is a company I only recently learned about. My husband and his family have a tradition of having fondue on New Year's Eve. So I knew there were these little cans of "something!" that could keep a fire going. When I heard that the company had now made a S'Mores product that would allow my family and I to make S'mores in my house whenever I wanted them rain, shine or even SNOW! I was so excited to get a chance to try it out. The fact that they wanted me to host the party on Kiah's birthday made it even better. There is not much to the part of the S'mores maker it is fitted to fit marshmallows, chocolate and crackers so that was pretty cool. Then there was a place to hold the little can that would burn for forty five minutes and it had a cage over the top of it so that it would protect people from getting too close to an open flame. The kids (and adults had a great time using this and it really made nice toasted marshmallows. It was super easy to start the flame- and it was also easy to put the flame out when we were done using it. If there is one thing I need to emphasize is make sure there is always an adult in the room. This is an open flame!!! At one point Kiah caught her marshmallow on fire and wasn't quite sure what to do with it. We blew on it and that was that, but it could easily start a fire so just be careful to have all papers out of the way and and adult present at all times. We have had so much fun with this product and I know we will use it for years to come. If you are interested in buying one I have a $15 rebate code!!! Just let me know!


Winners of our giveaway. Actually my nephew won it but I gave the box to his parents!

Thank you Tryazon and Sterno for letting us try out this product for free. We really enjoyed it and all the words here are my own. 

Saturday, June 4, 2016

Molkky Game- #Review #Tryazon

Our family loves spending time outdoors and we love playing games so when I heard that Tryazon was looking for people to host a party for this "new" game Molkky I knew I had to sign up. We got the game and had a week to try it out as a family before we had our bigger party, and all the kids loved it. We made a closer line for the two littles and we would play several games a night in our yard. The set up of the game is a bit like bowling with "pins" you try to knock over- however the pieces have numbers on them. If you knock one over you get the value that is on that piece but if you knock more than one over you get the total number of pieces you knocked down. The winner is the first person who gets fifty points without going over. The part that makes the game very interesting is that as the pieces fall over, you put them back up where they landed so the game slowly gets spread out more. The cool thing is you can play this on just about any surface, we have tried several different heights of grass and also dirt (wow they flew then!)  The other awesome thing about this game is you can score it with an APP! Oh my goodness that made it so nice and even more fun because the app can be hooked up to facebook and when I won I could brag about my score! 

We all loved this game- we had three generations playing at one point and that is pretty awesome- it's a game little kids can play (with some scoring help) and a game that someone pretty old could play. I am hoping to get a game in with my 91 year old grandpa yet. This product retails for $50 on Amazon- but I have seen it for less on a few sites. I also have a promo now that runs through TUESDAY that if you buy it for $49.99 with shipping you can receive a $20 Amazon or PayPal credit! Sweet! This game is put out by a company called Tactic Games. Check out their facebook page- seriously wish they would send me ALL their games! Thank you Tactic Games and Tryazon for sending me this game for free so I could shout from the world wide web rooftops-this game rocks! (all the words here are my own)

Friday, May 13, 2016

Purex Plus Clorox 2 #Review #Giveaway

Laundry day, some people cringe at that word because it just takes SO. MUCH. WORK! But I actually love laundry day, which sounds crazy since there are six of us I have to do laundry for. I run my washer and dryer all morning on laundry day and then spend all afternoon while my little guy is sleeping folding and catching up on TV shows. Another reason I love laundry day is just getting to work with great products and I was so happy to get to try out the new Purex plus Clorox 2. I knew I had two tough stains I was going to need to fight yesterday. One was a mud stain on khaki pants and the other was one of my kids sat in paint (not oil based something they used at school) with gray shorts, and I had scrubbed and scrubbed it before I threw it in- no no avail I thought the shorts were ruined. I was very surprised to see that both the stains came out, in one wash- this is not always the case with clothes I wash.
The claim on the bottle is that this detergent can work on 100 different stains. I am sure I will give it about 20 more to try before the bottle is gone with summer almost here and four kiddos getting dirty in my household. I love the Purex brand and how affordable it is which is why I am excited to be able to give away three free product coupons. Just enter in the rafflecopter below. 

The Purex brand provided me with a sample of Purex plus Clorox 2 Detergent in exchange for a product review. However, all the opinions expressed here are my own. 


Wednesday, May 11, 2016

IO Blocks #Review #Tryazon #Guidecraft


My family and I were one of the chosen families that got a chance to play/learn with the IO Blocks. The tub we got had 500 pieces and several building cards that showed us some pre designed projects we could make. It also came with a tracker mat which was pretty cool too. I am going to walk you through how you can build a project on the card it shows you the number of each piece you need, you then (after downloading the app) use the app to find what you are building and point it at the tracker. Then you hit the play button and it unbuilds then rebuilds the project and it looks 3D! The cool thing is being able to move the phone or the tracker to see all angles of what you are trying to build. We got these out the box the first day we got them and didn't move from them for over an hour. The projects can be a bit difficult for the younger kids to make but once my kids realized that they didn't have to build the pictures and just free play, they came up with all sorts of fun ways to use them. The box says 4+ for the age and I would tend to say 3+ because Javan loves them and several of the kids who tried them out were close to four and enjoyed them. I would say though that my 4th grader LOVES LOVES LOVES to try to build all the pages though! My kids' science teacher is going to try it out with several of her classes next week and I think as far as the app goes 3rd grade and up really enjoy it. It takes a lot of brains to use this. Every adult who has handled them as ended up spending at least 20 minutes playing with them which I think is a testament to how great they are. And I am not a teacher but these are supposedly great for the STEM education thing they do at school. Science Technology Engineering and Mathmatics and I have to agree that they do well with all of this!


Thank you Tryazon and Guidecraft for allowing my family to share these blocks with others and just get to know such a great product. I was provided a free sample in exchange for my review all the words here are my own.