Make Game Night Fun With Games From Winning Moves! @WinningMovesUSA #Review

March 25, 2016 By Marijean

My family loves board games! We make time to have family nights a few times a week, and this includes a game night. My kids always want to get new games to play, they just love them. I was asked to review a couple of games by Winning Moves. They offer Classic and Retro games at great prices!

ABOUT Winning Moves:

Winning Moves is a leading maker of board games, card games, and puzzles. Since our first year of operation in 1995, we have forged a close relationship with one of the world’s largest game companies, Hasbro, Inc., owner of Parker Brothers and Milton Bradley. As a result, many long-lived Parker Brothers and Milton Bradley games are now made exclusively by Winning Moves!

We proudly make and market best-selling titles like Pass The Pigs®, PayDay®, Rubik’s® Cube, Scattergories® Categories, Rack-O®, No Stress Chess®, and hot new sellers like The Rubik’s® Void Puzzle®, Classic Twister®, Aggravation® and Touring™. Additionally, many timeless classics like Pit®, Classic Monopoly®, Classic Clue®, Parcheesi® Royal Edition, and Classic Yahtzee® are now exclusively made by Winning Moves Games.

Winning Moves Games was founded in 1995 by four highly esteemed game industry professionals:

Phil E. Orbanes: The long-time head of research and development for Parker Brothers and the leading expert on the game Monopoly.
Mike Meyers: The long-time head of research and development for Milton Bradley.
Tom Kremer: One of the most successful game agents in history for “discovering” Erno Rubik and the Rubik’s® Cube in the late 1970’s.
Alex Randolph: One of Europe’s most distinguished game inventors while he was alive.

Some of the games on this site are very unique, and some I haven’t seen since I was a child. I chose to review two games from the new 2016 collection. I picked Pass The Pigs: Big Pigs and The Velveteen Rabbit Game. Both games are perfect for my 7 year old and 4 year old.

Pass The Pigs: Big Pigs is a really cute and fun game for the whole family, no matter how old you are! Perfect for indoor or outdoor play, throw the big pigs and see how they land. You will get points depending on how they land. The first player to reach 100 points wins! My kids love adding up their points, so it is great for learning math as well. They want to take this game everywhere with them!

The Velveteen Rabbit Game I love because all members of the family can play it, it requires no reading! Perfect for my 4 year old. This game is based on the children’s book by Margery Williams. This game can be for up to 4 players, the first player that collects one of each of the four picture cards and returns to the nursery wins! It is a very fun game to play with my children and it kept them very entertained the whole time!

Winning Moves has such a great selection of games to pick. You will definitely find good ones for your families game night that everyone will enjoy!

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***I was given a product in exchange for my honest opinion. This review is based on my experience with the product. I am not affiliated with the company and everything in this review is my opinion.

Marijean

My name is MJ. I have two wonderful children and work part time as well as volunteer at my children's school.

Bubble Guppies: Fun On The Farm DVD Available May 10th @Nickjr #Nickelodeon

March 24, 2016 By Marijean

FARMS AND FRIENDS GO TOGETHER BETTER THAN EVER

IN THESE FARM-TASTIC ADVENTURES

BUBBLE GUPPIES:

FUN ON THE FARM

Available on DVD May 10, 2016

Bubble Guppies fans won’t want to miss this new collection of fantastic farm-themed episodes in Bubble Guppies: Fun on the Farm, which hits shelves May 10. This new collection explores the world of farming as the Bubble Guppies meet new animal friends like Bubble Kitty and Spring Chicken, and join in exciting farm events like the Cowgirl Parade. In the five featured episodes, the Bubble Guppies meet new friends that oink, moo and buzz, having tons of farming fun along the way.

Produced by Nickelodeon Home Entertainment and distributed by Paramount Home Media Distribution, Bubble Guppies: Fun on the Farm will be available on DVD May 10, 2016, for the suggested retail price of $15.99.

Bubble Guppies: Fun on the Farm includes the following episodes:

Have a Cow!
The Cowgirl Parade!
The Spring Chicken is Coming!
The Bubble Bee-Athalon!
Bubble Kitty!

Bubble Guppies: Fun on the Farm Fast Facts

Street Date: May 10, 2016

Catalog: 59177669000 (US); 59177668000 (CAN)

Running Time: 120 Minutes

Audio: English, Spanish and French audio tracks

S.R.P.: $15.99

Marijean

My name is MJ. I have two wonderful children and work part time as well as volunteer at my children's school.

Zim’s USA, Natural Skin Care Products That Work Great! Review and Giveaway @zimsusa #review #giveaway

March 23, 2016 By Marijean

Finally Spring is here! My skin will be thankful, since the winter weather is always so harsh to my skin. My skin is always dry and always cracking. This happens in the summer months too, so I really need a good skin care line to use year round. I was asked to review some all natural skin products from Zim’s USA.

These are the products I reviewed:

Zim’s Max CRACK Creme Original Liquid Formula 2 oz is an All-Natural multi-use liquid herbal formula that softens and moisturizes dry, cracked skin. Recommended for nighttime use but can be used throughout the day as well. Use on Hands, Feet, Elbows, Cuticles & More. It was developed by a pharmacist over 60 years ago when cement workers came to him complaining of dry, cracked skin on their hands and feet. This oil formula features Arnica Flower Extract and Myrcia Oil. Original liquid and creamy daytime products are ideal for the dry split fingers often associated with dry atmosphere weather in wintertime or southwestern climates. $6.99.

From the #1 Pharmacist Recommended Zim’s CRACK Creme comes Heels & Feet Foot Cream. A NEW blend enhanced with L-Arginine to help soothe, moisturize and protect dry, cracked, tired feet. $8.99.

Zim’s CRACK Creme Creamy Daytime Formula is an herbal formula that softens and moisturizes dry, cracked skin. Developed by a pharmacist. Recommended for daytime use, complimenting nighttime use of the Original Liquid Formula . Use on Hands, Feet, Elbows, Cuticles & More. $6.99.

Zim’s Max Freeze Gel. Now Paraben & Sulfate Free! May effectively help relieve pain from:

Sore Muscles & Muscle Sprains
Back, Shoulder, Neck Pain
Painful Ankle, Knee, Hip & Elbow Joints
Muscular Strains
Greaseless, vanishing scent formula. Organic ilex & aloe, arnica, vitamin e and tea tree oil. This product is not tested on animals. $9.99.

Zim’s Max Freeze Roll-On. Now Paraben & Sulfate Free! May effectively help relieve pain from:

Sore Muscles & Muscle Sprains
Back, Shoulder, Neck Pain
Painful Ankle, Knee, Hip & Elbow Joints
Muscular Strains
Greaseless, vanishing scent formula. Organic ilex & aloe, arnica, vitamin e and tea tree oil. This product is not tested on animals. $9.99.

My husband and I tried all of these. My husband loves the Max Freeze Roll on, he said it works much better than the Icy Hot brand roll on and gives him much more relief. I used the Max Freeze Gel on my neck and it worked great, it isn’t greasy and it smells good. I also tried both of the Crack Creme’s on my hands and elbows (they get the most dry during the winter months) and the next day I could already tell a difference. The Foot Creme I lathered on my feet and put socks on them overnight and they were nice and smooth when I took the socks off in the morning. The Daytime Crack Creme I have been keeping in my purse so I can use on my hands when I am out. I love how the smell of all these products isn’t strong, they aren’t greasy and these products are all natural. My husband and I love them over Icy Hot.

With Aloe and Arnica, these products can help with Rashes, Itching and Scratching due to bug bites, Redness and Inflammation, Eczema and Psoriasis. I will definitely be trying this on myself and my kids when we get bug bites. Zim’s USA sells a whole line of products that include Skin Care, Cold & Cough, Body Care, Lip Care, Pain Relief, First Aid, Diabetic, First Aid, Adult Care and Gift Sets.

Use code MAR16 now through 3/27 to receive 20% off your purchase.

If you join their email list you will receive a 15% off coupon code.

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Would you like to try some of these products? I am giving one lucky reader a chance to win a prize pack which includes Zim’s Max Crack Creme Creamy Daytime Formula, the Zim’s Max Crack Creme Original Liquid Formula and the Zim’s Max-Freeze Roll-On. Open to residents of the U.S. Giveaway ends on 4/1.

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***I was given a product in exchange for my honest opinion. This review is based on my experience with the product. I am not affiliated with the company and everything in this review is my opinion.

Marijean

My name is MJ. I have two wonderful children and work part time as well as volunteer at my children's school.

The Hearts We Mend by Kathryn Springer

March 22, 2016 By Anne

I love to read. Spring is here and summer is right around the corner. I love to read by the pool. The Hearts We Mend by Kathryn Springer is a perfect book to start my spring off right! It is a very easy read. I love the characters – Evie and Jack and wish there was another book with them in it to read next. The story comes to life as Evie and Jack become friends and we watch them slowly become more than friends.

Planning and Post-It notes are the epitome of Evie’s life. But when she meets Jack, her life gets more than a little complicated.

Thirteen years ago, Evie’s firefighter husband was killed in the line of duty, leaving her to raise their young son, Cody, alone. Now, Cody is marrying the love of his life, and as he packs up his belongings, the house feels as empty as Evie’s heart. But for all her planning and mad organizational skills, Evie could never have anticipated the dramatic shift her life is about to make.

Tattooed, rough-around-the-edges Jack raises quite a few eyebrows in the tight-knit community of Banister Falls. Where Evie’s life is stream-lined, Jack’s approach to living is moment-by-moment. But as Evie gets drawn into Jack’s world—a world that isn’t as safe or predictable as the one she’s worked so hard to create—he challenges her to open her eyes to the problems outside the walls of the church.

Jack doesn’t make Evie feel comfortable, but he definitely makes her feel something. Something she hasn’t felt since Max passed away—or, maybe ever. Because even though Jack isn’t anything like her late husband, he just might be everything she needs.

Kathryn Springer is a USA Today bestselling author. She grew up in northern Wisconsin, where her parents published a weekly newspaper. As a child she spent many hours sitting at her mother’s typewriter, plunking out stories, and credits her parents for instilling in her a love of books — which eventually turned into a desire to tell stories of her own. Kathryn has written nineteen books with close to two million copies sold. She lives with her husband and three children in Marinette, Wisconsin.

Read more reviews on The Hearts We Mend – http://litfusegroup.com/author/KSpringer

Anne

I'm a mother of 2 who likes to get involved in too much! Besides writing here I started a non-profit, I'm on the PTO board, very active in my community and volunteer in the school. I enjoy music, reading, cooking, traveling and spending time with my family. We just adopted our 3rd cat and love them all!

Hidden Garden Cookies Made With Hidden Vegetables Review and Giveaway @HdnGardenFoods #Review

March 22, 2016 By Marijean

Getting my children to eat vegetables can sometimes be tough. They either don’t like the taste or the texture of the vegetable. I have always wished there was an easier way for my children to get there veggies in every day. I was asked to review cookies made by Hidden Garden that are made with vegetables, but have no veggie taste. I knew my kids would love them!

Hidden Garden cookies are gluten free and are made with hidden vegetables. These delicious little treats may be the tastiest vegetables you’ll eat all day. These cookies are all natural and made with no preservatives, artificial flavors or colors, just high quality ingredients that you can feel good about eating.

No Artificial Flavours, Colours or Preservatives

Our hidden vegetable cookies are all natural and contain no artificial flavours, colours or preservatives. Most of the ingredients that we use are probably in your own kitchen cupboard. Call us crazy, but we believe that a cookie doesn’t need to be stuffed full of chemicals in order to taste good!

Gluten Free

All of our hidden vegetable cookies are gluten free and produced in a certified gluten free bakery. If you are trying to avoid gluten in your diet, you can feel secure knowing that our cookies are not subject to the same risk of cross contamination that may exist in non-certified production facilities. Our hidden vegetable cookies have been certified gluten free by the Gluten-Free Certification Organization, which inspects our production facility and regularly tests our cookies to ensure compliance. We are permitted to use the certified gluten free logo on our packaging, which stands for the independent verification of quality, integrity, and purity of products. To find out more about the Gluten-Free Certification Organization, visit their website at www.gluten.net.

Nut Free

None of our hidden vegetable cookies contain any type of nuts, and no nuts are present in our production facility (not even in our staff lunches!). You can feel safe eating our cookies if you have nut allergies or if you want to send the cookies in your child’s lunch to a nut-free school.

They have 4 varieties of cookies. I was able to try them all. The flavors are:

RED VELVET: Each 40 gram serving of our Red Velvet Cookies hide 1/4 cup of beets. Wondering how? Our beets are dried first, then ground up into a flour-like powder so that we can stuff a lot of them into our little Red Velvet Cookies. Crunchy and full of cocoa, these cookies are a perfect little snack or lunch time treat.

GINGER SNAPS: Our Ginger Snaps are rich with the flavour of ginger, cinnamon and nutmeg, just like Grandma used to make, but with one secret ingredient: butternut squash. Each 40 grams of the cookies (about 4) has 1/4 cup of squash in them, which is truly the most we could pack in there. Make Grandma proud by eating your veggies!

CHOCOLATE CHIP: Who doesn’t love a Chocolate Chip cookie? Our Chocolate Chip cookies are little treats that taste just like you would hope, except they have the added hidden benefit of a 1/4 cup of pumpkin in each 40 gram serving of the cookies. Light and crispy, with some sneaky added vegetables…how can you resist?

COCOA CHERRY: Everyone always says that you have to eat your spinach to grow up big and strong. But there’s one problem, a lot of people don’t exactly “love” spinach. Well, now there’s a better way to get that iron in you – by eating cookies! Our brand new Cocoa Cherry Cookies are jam-packed with 1/2 cup of spinach in each 40 gram serving of cookies. Cocoa, cherries, AND some sneaky spinach? Yes please!

A VARIETY PACK IS ALSO AVAILABLE.

The Ginger Snap cookies are my favorite. They smell amazing. My daughter LOVES the Chocolate Chip. We both love having them with a glass of milk (or for myself sometimes coffee). All of the cookie varieties have vitamins and have no artificial colors or flavors. These cookies are a little bigger than bite sized and perfect to have on hand for a craving. They all taste great and my children and I didn’t taste any vegetables. They smell and taste just like the flavor listed. I am thrilled to give these to my children so I know they are getting more vegetables in their diet.

Click here and scroll to the bottom to locate a store to purchase these yummy cookies. These cookies are sold at Sprouts, Shaw’s and The Fresh Market.

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Would you like to try these cookies? One lucky reader will get to try 2 bags of each flavor (8 total bags)!! Giveaway ends 3/30. Giveaway is open to residents of Canada and United States.

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***I was given a product in exchange for my honest opinion. This review is based on my experience with the product. I am not affiliated with the company and everything in this review is my opinion.