I received product to facilitate this post.  As always, all opinions are my own. Have you ever taken a long car trip with your family?  My husband and I braved it two summers ago when we headed from Minnesota to Kentucky to visit the Ark Encounter and Creation Museum.  It was about a 13 or 14 hour drive each way.  On the way down, we drove through the night.  But on the way home, we actually took off about noon and then drove straight through again.  The key to getting through a road trip Read more [...]

Thank you to WubbaNub for sending products for review in exchange for my honest opinion in this review. I was first introduced to WubbaNub when my friend received one at her baby shower. If you are not familiar with them, WubbaNubs are a plush toy attached to a pacifier. They were invented by a mompreneuer named Carla Schneider when she was desperate to soothe her newborn son, who would fuss whenever his pacifier fell out. She had an "aha moment" and sewed a plush toy to his pacifier Read more [...]

YRYM HT sent me product and compensation for this post. All opinions are my own. There are affiliate links in this post. We love grilling in the summer. We feel like some foods taste better when grilled and it's nice to not have to make the whole house hot just to make dinner. When we first got a grill we stuck with common meat for grilling such as hamburgers, hot dogs or bratwurst. Then over time we started getting more creative, adding in veggies, trying out steak, we even tried watermelon! Read more [...]

Thank you to Sennheiser for providing me with products to facilitate my blog review. All opinions are 100% my own. In a few weeks, we are going on a trip. We are going to fly to our destination, spend a few days there, and then spend a few more days driving home and site seeing along the way. The entire trip will take about a week. With that much time spend cooped up in a plane and car, I wanted to make sure that my daughters had a good amount of entertainment items packed. Both girls really Read more [...]

As a kid, I got glasses from my eye doctor and my parents sometimes paid over $300 for them even though I have a simple prescription. It's now been years since I've purchased glasses from the eye doctor because I've learned that ordering them online can be significantly more affordable, like half the price or less! We recently tried out GlassesShop.com for the first time and we've been really pleased. Ryan has had a variety of glasses from online retailers in the last ten years or so. For most Read more [...]

Thank you to Desert Essence for providing me with products to facilitate my blog review. All opinions are 100% my own. Dessert Essence specializes in eco-friendly and sustainable beauty products. They believe their products can only be as good as the ingredients that go into them. That is why they use the most powerful ingredients on Earth. For our review, we received Desert Essence Body Scrub, Hand & Body Lotions, Lip Balms, and Dental Care Products. One of the high-quality ingredients Read more [...]

I received product in exchange for this post.  As always, all opinions are my own. It’s beginning to get a lot warmer around here and definitely starting to look like summer. That means the kids have been spending a lot more time outdoors.  And with the recent delivery of their new Globber Primo 3-Wheel Scooter, exciting times are ahead for some ‘wheely’ amazing outdoor adventures.  Everyone knows that coaxing your children to put down the remote or the tablet and head outside to play Read more [...]

Thank you to TOMY for sending a Doodle Bear for review in exchange for my honest opinion. #tomytoy ~  #DoodleBear ~  #retro I was a child of the 90's. I vividly remember my Doodle Bear. I loved coloring on him and then washing him and decorating him again. When I got the chance to partner with TOMY Toys to review a new The Original Doodle Bear with my three-year-old daughter, I was excited for the opportunity! My daughter loves critters and 'stuffies'. She was over the moon when she Read more [...]

Thanks to Airfree for sending me this air purifier. As always, all opinions are my own. This winter our previously co-sleeping daughter moved into her very own bedroom! We built her a loft bed and she's been sleeping on her own for a few months now. While she's loved it, we originally had a few issues with her having rough sleep due to allergies. She was getting nosebleeds multiple times a month and snoring while she slept. As you can imagine, nosebleeds in a loft bed are not much fun! I turned Read more [...]

A few months ago we tried a meal service that had peanut sauce stir fry as one of the meal options and our entire family loved it! Even though that recipe had a bunch of items we don't typically buy, I wanted to attempt my own peanut stir fry with fewer ingredients. Needless to say, it was a HUGE hit! The whole family was thrilled when I told them what we were having, and it was so simple to make. Check out the full recipe below! Thai Peanut Sauce Stir Fry This stir fry recipe takes very Read more [...]