Flip Out Mama

Check out this press release about the hot new DS Game, Camping Mama: Outdoor Adventures!  Edison, New Jersey – September 13, 2011 – Majesco Entertainment (NASDAQ: COOL), an innovative provider of video games for the mass market, announced today that the latest installment in its iconic and seminal Mama franchise, Camping Mama : Outdoor Adventures , is now available for the suggested retail price of $29.99 at retailers everywhere. Rated E for Everyone, Camping Mama marks the first time in the series’ decorated past that you will be able to play as Mama ’s two children. “With well over eight and a half million units sold in North America alone, the Mama franchise is one we’re undeniably proud of,” said Jesse Sutton, CEO, Majesco Entertainment. “This latest iteration continues the high standard of quality, deep and enjoyable mini games, family friendly humor and memorable gameplay experiences. We can’t wait for gamers around the world to join Mama in this latest adven...

They are a winner!!! Seriously!  The other day, a GIANT box showed up on our doorstep. We weren't expecting a package that day, so everyone was very curious as to what was inside!  Check out what we found: I know right!?  This is seriously almost every Squinkies toy known to boys! Did you even know they made Squinkies for boys? Me either?!  I know that my nieces were head over heels for Squinkies last year at Christmas, but I really thought they were just a girl's toy! Not anymore!  Look at some of the cool stuff we got to check out:  So cute, so funny!  The awesome Skull Cavern Playset! Tater's Fave? Marvel Squinkies, of course! Cars 2? MOM loves these! A close runner up? Army Squinkies of course!! (Or, "tiny Call of Duty Guys", as they have become known around here!) Tater is in love with these! Blip Toys has really outdone themselves this time around! These are definitely going to be hot this holiday season! I am so glad that we got...

My big Tater is now officially a boy. We are into all of those fun toys with the millions of little parts. I love it though, these are the toys he is really into. The ones that he can spend hours with in his room, building and tweaking and getting all the parts just right. And, then when he comes out to show me what he made, he is just so very proud of whatever it may be!  So, imagine how perfect it was when we received the Mega Bloks Blok Squad Construction Site to review!  Tater was absolutely over the moon when he received this set! He LOVES construction vehicles, and building, so together the two were perfect for him! This set includes 395(!) pieces, so you better get something to store these tiny babies in! You can build three vehicles with this set: the construction 4x4 truck, the Track Loader, and the Road Roller. It also includes 3 Blok Squad guys (one for each vehicle, duh!!!)  Here's what the Mega Bloks site has to say about this product;  All mission...

By now, you guys know that I am not a commitment type of gal. I just don't dig it. So, I am always on the lookout for a cool, affordable and commitment-free phone! I was lucky enough to find yet another great one when I recently got to review the Samsung Prevail for Boost Mobile.  My first thought upon opening this phone was "Oooh, pretty!" It really has to be probably the fanciest "no contract" phone that I have ever seen! But we will get to that in a minute.  First of all, you can not argue that Boost Mobile has pretty much become the KING of "Pay As You Go" cell phone providers. Boost Mobile is ranked "Highest In Customer Service Performance and Highest in Satisfaction With Purchase Experience among Non Contract Wireless Providers" by JD Power and associates. Yup, that pretty much means they are the best.  Boost Mobile is pretty much one of the greatest deals you can find. Unlimited everything, Talk, Text, and Web. For only $50.00 pe...

Wanted to post real quick and share a great giveaway with you guys! One of my favorite blogs, Two of a Kind Working On A Full House, is teaming up with Kroger and Cottonelle to raise breast cancer awareness! You can go there now to enter to win a $50 Kroger gc! Yay!!!

Much to my boys' dismay, Summer is now officially over. We are beginning to put up the pool, stash away the outside toys, and come up with some fun things to play indoors. But the thing is, my boys are not really "inside" kind of guys.. so I am always looking for toys that still allow them to be their active, wild selves without breaking everything in sight!  We were so pumped when we got the chance to try the Mini Frisbee Golf Set from Wham-O Toys ! I knew this would be perfect for my guys: An "outdoor" toy that can be played indoors! How great!  This is such a cute set! The one that we received was a little different in color, but almost exactly the same! I was a bit worried when I opened the box, because I am NOT so great at putting things together, but this was super simple! I mean really, less than five minutes. The base has like four pieces that snap together and then you are done! It comes with six mini frisbee discs, that are not super hard. They are ...

So, we have been paci- free in this house for an hour and forty-three minutes. I think I am going to die. Seriously, why in the hell is this so hard? I did this once before, about four years ago.. and the results were MUCH different. When Tater gave up his paci, he was almost one and a half. We took them all outside to these stray kittens that lived in our backyard, (he was obsessed with them lol) and he gave them to them, willingly. And that was that.  Bean, on the other hand.. another story! He is so obsessed with the thing! He has been screaming hysterically for almost two hours! Ohhh, the tears! He is so pitiful! He just keeps saying "Ohhhh Nooo Baaaa!" (That's what he calls it.) Poor little baby! I am so tired of this.. I just want to give it back lol.. I am not strong anymore... Sigh.  I know it will be better for him (and us!) once it is gone for good! I hate seeing it stuffed in his mouth, and especially when he talks with it in! This is a big step for him beco...

My sweet little Bean is just now getting to the point where he is interested in TV. So, I have been trying to find acceptable things for him to watch. I don't want to rot his brain, just yet anyways..  So, when we got the chance to review a couple of new Veggie Tales DVD's, I was really excited! I knew that these would be perfect for him!  I was really excited about the "Larry Learns To Listen" dvd. ANYTHING that can help my Bean be a better listener is welcome in this house! He has a tendency to be very stubborn, so I was hoping at least a little bit of good listening would be absorbed from this DVD!  Here's a rundown of Larry Learns To Listen:  When Larry’s new Space Squadron game finally arrives, he’s so anxious to play that he forgets to read the directions. When his friends do their best to tell him, Larry refuses to listen! What happens? His game goes ‘KERPOW!’ That’s when Larry learns a valuable lesson in listening as his friends come to the rescue...

I'm gonna be perfectly honest with you guys: I might be a little biased with this post. I am a little partial to prepaid cell phone providers.. I do not like the "big" cell phone companies, I hate contracts, ugh!! So, when we got the chance to do a review for Virgin Mobile, I was like yayyyy!  We received the LG Optimus V with one free month of service to review! The first thing I noticed was what a beautiful phone this is! Check it out!  Now, this is an Android phone, which means it is super easy to use. It is 3G and Wi-Fi capable. One of my favorite things about this phone is the screen. It isn't too big, but it's a good size at 3.2". It is a touchscreen, but has a QWERTY touchscreen and you can text using Swype text entry. You can also use the Android Market to download lots of cool apps!  There are so many cool things about this phone. I love that you can customize it with apps. I customized mine with an awesome live wallpaper. I love it! The internet ...

As most of you guys know, I have really been struggling lately with my work and sleep issues. There is just never enough time, never enough sleep. It really gets to me sometimes, and I just HAVE to find a way to fit it all in! Until then, Sealy has some awesome tips to help us all get the rest we need and deserve!  Sometimes it feels like we can never catch up on sleep!  It’s easy to let our personal health and wellness take a back seat to everything else going on in our busy lives. In addition to your health, missing out on a good night sleep could lead to many unfortunate consequences affecting those around you including relationship problems, alertness and memory. The effects of sleep deprivation can be widespread. Job performance, driving ability and even your heart health can be dramatically affected by lack of sleep.  Here are some tips to get your sleep and healthy lifestyle habits back on track:   o         Keep an exercise routine: ...

We were recently given the chance to try out the new Rugby World Cup 2011 for Xbox 360. Now, I will start off by saying that sports games are not really any of my boys cup (cups?) of tea. They normally go for some kind of shoot 'em up game instead. I was not sure how they were gonna receive this game.  I am happy to report that my boys enjoyed this game thoroughly, although not as much as they would if it had been perhaps, football, or NCAA basketball, of course. I must say that none of us are all to familiar with rugby as a sport, so that made it a little more difficult for them to learn what they were doing in this game. The game was a little "FIFA"ish, they report. They really love that game, so I guess that is a good sign.  They did tell me that they wish that the game would have had some sort of tutorial mode. They say it was a little hard to learn the controls and what not when just being thrown into a game. But once you get used to the gameplay and the way that...

Okay, I'm going to be honest here. I have a stinky house. I can't help it. I have a husband who works in food, a dog who is not always pottytrained, and two very smelly little boys. Candles are my favorite out, but a lot of times they just seem to mask the odors instead of getting rid of them...  I was really excited to try David Oreck's new Pure Air Candles. I love the Oreck Company, and every thing they produce is a quality product, so I knew that these candles would be no different! These candles were really great at eliminating the nasty "boy odor" of our home! They leave the whole house with a fresh, clean scent! It isn't an overpowering scent like a lot of other candles, and I really like that. I really would love to have a couple more of these candles so I can put one in every room!  It's kind of like they "attacked" the odors in our house, which is definitely a win in my book!  Right now if you would like to buy some of these fabulou...

We were really excited to get to try the new Moon Dough formula recently! We have played with Moon Dough in the past, and were always a bit disappointed by the super messy, falling apart dough... This time around however, things were much better!  We got to try the Moon Dough Ocean Pals Playset!  This was a really fun rainy day activity for our family! With this play set you get three push and pop tools, one mold and two colors of dough. That is plenty for both of my boys and me to play together at the same time! One thing that I really love about Moon Dough is that it is odorless. I hate the smell of that OTHER dough, so this was great for us! Another great thing is that it never dries out. Some people (no names!) around here have a hard time remembering to put things back where they go and they let the OTHER dough dry out.. This was a welcome change!  We were really excited and pleased with our experience with Moon Dough Ocean Pals! I love that it was less crumbl...

Soo.... did you guys know that this even existed? The possibility to RENT textbooks for college instead of buying them!?! I honestly had no idea that this was even possible! I really wish that this would have been an option for me when I was in college (for that whole 2 months lol!) This is such a wonderful idea, and a great way for college students to cut down on costs!  I recently came across this great site called CampusBookRentals.com , where you can rent textbooks. The first thing I noticed about their site was the ease of using it. You can search for the books you need by ISBN, author, title, or keyword. Another thing that I really liked about CampusBookRentals.com is that they offer FREE shipping both ways! Another thing that I thought was really cool is that it is totally okay to mark or highlight in the books however you need to! You just pay your rental fee, and then at the end if you want to buy the book, you just pay the difference. How Cool!?!? The fees on the site...

I'm really excited to tell you guys about these two new Goosebumps DVDS, out since 9/13/2011! They have only been on the shelves for about a week, so make sure you go check them out!  Get goose bumps and keep the light on to ward off the ghosts, goblins, mutants and madness as Goosebumps®: Attack of the Mutant and Goosebumps®: Ghost Beach scare their way onto DVD September 13, 2011 from Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment. With over 300 million books sold, R.L. Stine’s wildly successful children’s stories (www.scholastic.com/goosebumps ) come to life with two all-new terrifying tales. First, Attack of the Mutant includes “Attack of the Mutant Parts 1 & 2” and follows Skipper Matthews and his awesome comic book collection. Skipper’s favorite is The Masked Mutant, the story of an evil, power-mad super villain who is out to gain control of the universe. One day, while lost in a strange part of town, Skipper discovers a building that mysteriously resembles the...

Do you remember K'Nex? I never had them when I was little, but I lived next to a house full of four boys, and I always had fun playing with K'NEX when I hung out at their house! We could literally play with those things for hours without getting bored! So, when I got the chance to review some K'NEX toys for Tater, I was super excited! I knew these would be right up his alley! He is so creative, and he really likes to build!  I was honestly blown away by how far K'NEX have come since I was a kid. They seriously have Mario Kart Kits, Orange County Chopper Kits, Sesame Street Kits, Nascar Kits, Monster Jam Kits, etc!!!I was completely in awe of how cool these things have gotten! But I must say, I was really happy to receive a "classic" K'NEX kit to review! It took me back to my childhood LOL! We received the K'NEX Classics 30 Model Building Set to review with Tater! This is such a cool kit! These are the ones I remember! Oh, my boys (the big ones!) ...

Tater is finally at the great (dreadful?) age of Bakugan and stuff like that. I am not totally sure how I feel about this. I am not a big fan of stuff like that. It just seems so boring to me! But, it makes him happy, so I am able to deal with it! :) I recently found out about an awesome new card game that is going to ROCK Tater's socks off! It's called Redakai ,and it is made by SpinMaster Toys . (You know them! Moon Sand/ Tech Deck/Air Hogs/ Bakugan??That's them!) It's based on the new Cartoon Network show Redakai: Conquer the Kairu that debuted in late July. The show is based on a 15 year old character, Ky, who is a student of ancient martial arts. He embarks on an amazing quest to find the Kairu, which is a primordial alien energy force. Ky and his two friends travle the world looking for the Kairu, in order to protect it from extraterrestrial teenage opponents. His hope is one day to become the greatest Kairu warrior, a Redakai! He is still a little young for...