Gorilla Gym Review ~ Home Fitness For All Ages

Thank you to Gorilla Gym for providing me with product in exchange for review purposes. All opinions belong to me.  It's October here in Michigan, which means cool weather and the doom and gloom of winter approaching. I say doom and gloom of winter because I have two children aged 18 months and 4. If you have kids you know the absolute value of warm weather for your kids to go out and romp around in. Snow has its ups but with kids my age it really doesn't have much upside. Not to mention pent Read more [...]

Zipadee-Zips ~ Fleece Wearable Blanket For Fall + Discount & Giveaway (US) 11/15

  Thank you to Sleeping Baby for providing me with product, free of charge, in exchange for this honest blog review.  All opinions are 100% my own. Some of you may remember I introduced all of you to the Sleeping Baby Zipadee-Zips a couple months ago.  I'm back to report our extended results.  (We have actually co-slept with all five of our children but were having some issues recently with baby #5, who was about 10 months at the time.  You can read more about what we were going through Read more [...]

Affordable building brick toys

I was sent product for review. My nephew has become really interested in brick style building toys recently. Name brand bricks can be so expensive and the sets that are designed to just make one item don't usually get played with over and over. I was excited to find 1,000 piece brick toy set for about $30 on Amazon. This set is big and is all basic pieces in various sizes so you can make almost anything you can think of. The bricks seem just like the name brand ones and don't feel cheap Read more [...]

Nutrisystem Week 15 Update & Changes

I have been provided with a Nutrisystem plan in exchange for sharing my honest experience and results on my blog. All opinions are my own. You may have noticed that I hadn't posted a Nutrisystem update in a couple of weeks. The reason for the delay was I wasn't sure if we were continuing with the Nutrisystem blogging program. I knew that Ryan wanted to but we were originally signed up for three months and had to request an extension so that he could keep going with this awesome program and keep Read more [...]

Paleo Treats® Review

Thank you to Paleo Treats® for providing me with product in exchange for review. All opinions belong to me.  The paleo lifestyle, at first it felt like it was a bit of a shock to try to transition all at once. I took a step back and really looked at small parts of my day that could be transitioned easily to a more paleo way of doing things/eating. Kicking grains honestly was rough at first but not too bad once we stuck to it (we still have pasta every once in a while). Getting rid of dairy Read more [...]