I encourage you to take a moment and pop over to the Let’s Say Thanks site and show you support our troops by sending a free printed postcard to military personnel stationed overseas.
It’s completely free and very easy to do.
Select a postcard design, personalize it and hit send!
See…..easy peasy lemon squeezey! (I know, I’ve watched far too much Hannah Montana!)
I just took 5 minutes of our day and each one of us picked a card to personalize and send!
Last night, we finally had time to break out the at-home kit and put it to use.
We didn’t use it to make pretzels though.
We thought we would try using it as a pizza crust as suggested on the side of the box.
First things first, the kit contained everything we needed to make the pizza crust except water. (It could have also been used to make 10 pretzels with salt or cinnamon sugar).
The pizza dough was super easy to make, but I did use my mixer and dough hooks instead of mixing and kneading the dough.
Once it was mixed, I let it sit and rise for about 30 minutes.
When it was ready, I rolled it out onto a cookie sheet/jelly roll pan that I had sprinkled some flour on.
From there, I spread sauce out, added a bit of cheese followed by pepperoni, mushrooms, black olives and finally more cheese!
After it was topped, I popped it in the over at 400* F for 23 minutes.
When it came out it looked AMAZING!
Oh and I can’t forget that the kids and I had a lot of fun making it together! Libby was very intrigued with the way the dough hooks mixed everything together!
The Auntie Anne’s At-Home Baking Kit is available for purchase in select stores and Auntie Anne’s locations in addition to their fundraising program.
Disclaimer: I was provided with an Auntie Anne’s At-Home Baking Kit and no cost to me in exchange for my honest review. Auntie Anne’s doesn’t represent or warrant the accuracy of any statements or product claims made here, nor does it endorse any opinions expressed within this blogsite. The opinions stated from me are 100% mine.
The show focused on bringing attention to today’s most pressing health challenges, and to inspire people to act.
The Alex and I sat down with Zack and Libby to watch it this evening.
I wanted my kids to watch it and learn a valuable lesson.
To learn that they are lucky to have the lives they have and be provided with everything they have.
I wanted them to learn how to make a difference in the lives of others.
After the first segment was over, Zack was already asking what he could do to help.
By the end of the second segment, Libby was right there next to him.
At the conclusion of the show, they both were brainstorming ways to raise money to donate.
I think they really benefited from watching this show with us.
Zack is already planning on donating part of his birthday money in February to Charity Water.
Libby wants to donate to help keep a baby warm with the Embrace baby warmer.
The Alex and I are also making plans to donate some money throughout 2011.
See what you can do to help by visiting here or learn more about www.SaveOne.net
Tonight, we celebrated my birthday….once again. Originally, the Alex and I had plans to go to dinner and a movie sans kids, but that was just a pipe dream.
On my birthday, the hubs made steak, potatoes, 4 cheese rice and salad for my birthday dinner.
I mainly ate the salad and the rice since the steak wasn’t exactly to my liking.
So tonight, we celebrated my birthday with the BEST BIRTHDAY DINNER EVER!
After watching a variety of shows about food throughout the day, I had decided I wanted Greek food.
I REALLY wanted a gyro.
And I got one.
We have been tying to find a reason to eat at Greek Boy’s Gyro since they opened but haven’t found the time.
However, tonight I was not in the mood to dine out.
So, the amazingly wonderful Alex of mine hopped in his car and he was off to retrieve dinner.
He returned with 5 of these bad boys
Yes!
1 for each of us.
The great thing was that you could order 5 under their Alpha deal for only $19.99 instead of $4.99 a piece.
We also picked up an order of Greek Fries
They were amazing!
Nice hot fries seasoned with Greek oregano, topped with Feta cheese (THAT I LOVE!) and a spritz of lemon juice.
Finally, we were left with dessert….
Baklava!
Can we say food orgasm?!
It was beyond delicious!
Needless to say, after devouring all of this Greek goodness we were stuffed!
Thanks for the best dinner ever Alex, Zack, Libby, Alexander and of course Greek Boy’s Gyro!
There are few things that grasp my little Alexander’s attention aside from his vroom vrooms, Mickey Mouse, Spongebob and Elmo. The one thing that he will give his full attention too outside of these is animals. You can play a video of a pig rolling in the mud, a lion running or a fish swimming and he will lock his eyes on it. It is because of his love of animals, that we were more then pleased to review the new Baby Einstein Wild Animal Safari Discovery Kit.
The Baby Einstein Discovery Kits are an innovation new interactive experience that helps parents introduce their children to music, nature and animals.
A great thing about these discovery kits is they are created to grow with your child and offer three different levels of discovery.
We had the chance to review the 2nd level which is Exploring. Alexander’s Wild Animal Safari Discovery Kit includes a DVD, Discovery Cards, Music CD and a
Parents’ Guide.
Through this DVD, he was able to take an exotic musical expedition and meet wild animals across the close. He loved watching it and matching up the correct Discovery Card with each animal as we watched it.
He got really excited during the opening of the DVD watching all of the different animals and then when he laid his eyes on the fish, he began to jump up and down yelling,”Wook Mommy! Is my fish!!” ( AKA: Look Mommy! It’s my fish!)
The boy was entranced with the DVD and when naptime arrived shortly after we finished watching it, he insisted on taking the Discovery Cards to bed with him because he wanted to keep looking at the aminimals (AKA: Animals).
The first six Discovery Kits became available for purchase on November 23rd, 2010 and three additional kits will be unveiled in early 2011. The suggested retail price is $19.99 (U.S.) and $24.99 (Canada).
For more information about the Baby Einstein Discovery Kits and other Baby Einstein products,
visit www.babyeinstein.com.
Disclaimer: “I received this free Discovery Kit through a Click Communications/Baby Einstein program. However, all thoughts and opinions expressed are my own and no other monetary compensation took place.”