El Tacodor, the world´s only Family Taco Night Game (Review and Giveaway)

El Tacodor Dinner Game is a great way to enjoy family time, as well as have dinner: Taco Night. Here are the things you need for your family game night/meal: Old El Paso taco fixings, meat, family and a FREE game-ready El Tacodor Pack which includes instructions, a scorecard and a challenge sheet which you can download at Eltacodor.com.
This game board, which looks like a menu, is loaded with games that you and your family/friends can do to earn toppings for your taco. Here are a few examples of things you may do when playing:
Crunch Time: Name at least 10 animated movies within 1 minute
Meat-N-Greet: Name 5 things that you´d bring home from your favorite vacation place and let the table guess where you traveled
Lettuce Play: Act out different animals - no noises! Your partner must guess 3
Lime Light: Cheer, "We love tacos, yes we do! We love tacos, how `bout you?"
Say Cheese: Pronounce the name of everyone at the table backwards!
Our family loves gaming, and we love tacos, so this game was fun to review. Our youngest children really couldn't participate, but our 11 year old enjoyed this game. El Tacodor is a fun way to engage with each other, learn about one another, and just have pure fun! We recommend this game for your next family game night/Taco night!
Would you like to win this game?
This contest is open to bloggers and non-bloggers of the United States. Contest is open until December 7th, 2009. To enter, leave a comment about your favorite part of Taco night is, or family game night.
**For extra chances you can: blog this contest, add my button to your site, subscribe to my blog, twitter and/or become a fan on facebook, and/or visit everyday and add another friendly comment. Lots of chances to win! Don't forget to put the extra comments for the "extra" work. Good luck!**

This review was provided from Old El Paso, which provided me with the free product to review and information to share with my readers. I was given a prize pack through MyBlogSpark to offer to my readers. I was given the product for my personal opinion and option to share with my readers. I was not compensated for my time or written review.

Snazzy Baby it's time to eat! (review and giveaway)

Doesn't it frustrate you when you go to a restaurant and they are out of high chairs, or the high chairs they have available are not really "functional"? You know, the straps are broken, the clip is all bend out of whack, the wood is chipping, or you just can't fathom putting your precious child in there? Well, I am happy to introduce to you a great product for your baby/toddler. This is a product from Snazzy Baby.
Here is the Snazzy Baby:

Isn't my baby Cole adorable? He is in his new Travel Chair. This is a great new product for your baby's feeding times, or times to be at the table with you. I love that this is a to-go, all in one, small kit that you can fit in your diaper bag. You will always be ready if you keep this handy Travel Chair in your bag.
The Snazzy Baby's My Baby's Own Deluxe Travel chair is designed very well. There is one (adjustable) strap that fits across the back of the travel chair, that goes around the chair your baby will sit on. Also, there are two adjustable shoulder straps, and an adjustable strap on each side of baby's side. The bottom of the travel chair, where your baby's bum is, there is a rubber pad to help prevent slipping. That is ingenious! I love that the straps are adjustable, and I can use this travel chair for other seats, too, like a shopping cart. I know I would feel more secure if Cole is a bit more snug fitting in the cart, wearing the travel chair around him!
Thanks to Snazzy Baby, I have a traveling chair that I can put Cole in, so he can be at the table with us! I highly recommend this as a product to have for moms with children (sitting infants-holding up to 37 pounds). Click this link to see a product demonstration.
My Baby’s Own Travel Chair has a SRP of $34.99.

Here is a little bit about the founders of Snazzy Baby:
The company began with a mom-invented set of knee pads. Snazzy Baby was created by Australian mom Cyndy Mundy who needed to protect her tot’s tender knees after another day of crawling on the carpet. The award-winning company has impressed online and brick and mortar retailers with snug, soft, 4 layer cushioned oval knee pads made of neoprene and secured with velcro straps and ensuring a comfortable fit. iParenting Media Awards have praised each one of their products as they’ve come to market.
For more information on all of Snazzy Baby’s safety products, visit their new U.S. website at http://www.snazzybaby.us/.

You can enter to win a Snazzy Baby product! Thanks to the generous sponsor from Snazzy baby, my readers can enter to win either the Snazzy baby Knee pads or the Deluxe Travel Chair! This giveaway is open to residents of the USA (bloggers/non-bloggers), and will end on November 6th, 2009. To enter, just leave a comment about a time where the Travel Chair would have come in handy, or how your child could use the knee pads. Please let me know which one you would like to win. You can come back once each day throughout the contest and enter again by just leaving a friendly comment relevant to the contest.**For extra chances you can: blog this contest, add my button to your site, subscribe to my blog, twitter this contest, and/or visit everyday and add another friendly comment. Lots of chances to win! Don't forget to put the extra comments for the "extra" work. Good luck!**
This review was sponsored by Snazzy Baby. They have supplied me with a free product to keep for my personal opinion and option to share with my readers. I was not compensated for my time or written review. They have offered to sponsor a giveaway for a prize for my readers.

Weekend plans

Today I was home with the kids. I usually babysit on Fridays, but it was an exception today. I brought Nathaniel to school this morning, because he was going on a field trip to the MN Science Museum! I was hoping to be picked as one of the chaperone's, but unfortunately my name wasn't one of the lucky draws. Hopefully I will make the next field trip. I really like going on those, because I can get to know his teacher and classmates better. That way, when he mentions someone from his class, I know who he is talking about. I wish that I was able to volunteer once a week, but that would require getting a sitter...not really realistic.
I did some straightening up around the house today and did dishes. I will have extra company all weekend, so I have decided NOT to clean until Monday when my house isn't full of people. I really don't feel like cleaning it twice. Today, my father-in-law sliced wood for us, and that was greatly appreciated. It is a big job out there with the slicing and stacking. Our pile is huge and winter is coming...so, it is a must to get that done. We are hearing of possible snow on Sunday already. I am looking forward to the snow and winter. I am not a huge fan of the ice and freezing below wind chills, though. Tonight, Terry's mom and sister will be showing up for the weekend. It will be great to see them again! Tomorrow, Nathaniel will have a few friends over in the afternoon for his birthday party. That will be about 4-5 extra boys. I think Terry is going to be getting the boat and pontoon out of the lake, and finish winterizing the outdoors. We have a faucet that needs fixing before snow flies, too. In the evening, my parents will come over for dinner. We will be having a Grandparent supper celebration for Nathaniel...and to have a get together for them to visit. Like I had mentioned before, Terry's Dad is here from Alaska...and we haven't seen him in over 4 years. My parents have just met him on our wedding, so it will be good for them all to get to know each other.
Sunday, we will be heading down to bring Terry's Dad back to the airport, and then I believe we will just relax the rest of the day. A Day of Rest. I think we will need a day of rest after the busy weekend. I will try to post some this weekend, but if I don't~ you know why. :) Have a super weekend everyone!

"Get Back to the Table Month" campaign: Libby's

Making it a priority to have our family dinners together has been something that Terry and I are proud of. I can honestly say we eat 99.9% of the time together in the evenings and weekends. We rarely have something that we will allow to interfere with our family dinners. I am so thankful for that. It is a time we can all depend on to reconnect from our busy days! Life is really busy, and as the kids get older, there are even more activities that demand their attentions.

In an effort to help families make time for dinner together, Libby's has launched its "Get Back to the Table Month" campaign. The site provides family dinner planning tools, time-saving tips, healthy recipes, and grocery shopping and money-saving advice. The campaign also highlights important benefits of establishing a regular family sit-down dinner-children who eat regular family meals tend to:

Perform better in school~Have a lower risk of smoking, drinking, and drug use~Have higher self-esteem~Develop stronger interpersonal relationships~Eat healthier, and~Teenage girls develop a healthier body image.

Libby's Back to the Table Month website has a lot to offer, and they also have a coupon on there to save on their canned vegetables. They also have a contest right now to win a dinner backstage with Sara Evens!

I am a firm believer of having one meal a day together as a family! How does your family do with having a meal together? Is this campaign something that can encourage you to do?