We Heart Minted.

Happy holidays from our families to yours!

Now that Thanksgiving has officially passed, I feel as if I have full permission to get into the holiday spirit, and no better way than to start off by sharing our cute holiday photo card designs from Minted with you. Please keep Minted in mind when shopping for your own cute holiday photo card designs this year – we heart Minted big time….

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The Nutcracker is Coming to Town! [+ TICKET GIVEAWAY]

I have yet to take my girls to see The Nutcracker ballet at the holidays, so I was thrilled to pieces when Ballet Etudes contacted us to share their special Nutcracker performances coming up this December. I plan to take my girlies and hope it becomes an annual tradition.

GIVEAWAY alert!! We have 4 tickets to give away to the Ballet Etudes The Nutcracker 7pm performance on 12/13 – enter at end of this post. Good luck!

 

Ballet Etudes Nutcracker

The Learning Toy that Grows with Your Kids!

This post is sponsored by VTech’s InnoTab® MAX

When it comes to choosing the perfect toy for your child, VTech is the leading expert at packaging fun with learning. With the InnoTab® MAX, your children will get years of learning fun through their fastest tablet yet. On top of an adaptable design that features a tough, kid-friendly cover, the InnoTab® MAX has a 7” multi-touch screen with high-resolution display, and over 600 cartridges, downloads and even carefully-selected educational Android™ apps so your kids will never get bored!

The VTech Kid Connect™ app on the tablet also lets you exchange text and voice messages, photos, drawings and fun stickers with your kids via your smartphone so you’re constantly connected!

Check out the video above to learn more about the InnoTab® MAX and visit VTechKids.com to check out how VTech facilitates “Learning that’s Wow!”

VTech InnoTab Max

Ho-Ho-Holy Moly! Santa Has Gone High Tech!

Disclosure: This post is sponsored by Lakewood Center and we were invited to attend a special media preview of Santa HQ before its Grand Opening earlier this month. Photo credit: Lakewood Center

Santa HQ

This season Lakewood Center and Los Cerritos Center are pleased to introduce a thoroughly modern, extraordinarily high tech visit with Santa – the new Santa HQ, presented by HGTV, which offers an adventure I can guarantee your children have never seen before. I have a Santa HQ photo package *****GIVEAWAY***** to give away to one lucky winner! Please enter below!

Folks, the magic has been kicked up a notch at Santa HQ. Big time.

Please GO.  It’s a hands-on experience they will never forget. Mine sure haven’t.

Best of all, guests can plan ahead by booking a reservation online at www.Santa-HQ.com to make the experience easier than ever to enjoy. No more crazy long lines with impatient, cranky toddlers. Nice. Speaking of “nice”…

‘Naughty O’Nice Meter 

The introduction to Santa HQ includes a scan on the ‘Naughty O’ Nice Meter where an attendant enters in your child’s name (or yours, if you are brave enough) and the results are shown on the light up screen for all to see….

Juicy Holiday Gift Guide – FOR HIM

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Amazon holiday gift ideas for him

Typically holiday gift ideas for him are the hardest for me, but we found a lot of great ideas on Amazon so today’s post is on Amazon holiday gift ideas for him.

Click here for our Amazon holiday gift ideas for her, for little girls, and for little boys.

Links below correlate with the images above top to bottom, left to right. Happy shopping!