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Tuesday, August 4, 2015

Glow Stick Bracelets - 100 Bracelets




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Amazon Price Prime: $11.95

I recently received 100 glow stick bracelets, free for the purpose of review, from Super Bright Glow Sticks. I have 6 kids so we are always throwing a party or have some kind of family get together. My kids and I were so excited to receive these glow sticks because we had birthday fast approaching. 
 Amazon Description: 
Super Glow Stick Bracelets
The best brand of glow sticks on the market. You will receive 1 tube of 100 luminescent light glow sticks. They can be made into bracelets, glasses and so much more.
Each tube contains of 5 colors -- Blue, Green, Yellow, Orange, and Pink. Your order will also contain 100 connectors so you can hook the ends together to make bracelets and necklaces.
Once they start glowing, The Super Glow brand glow bracelets will last all night. They will glow super bright for 8 - 10 hours. Then, they will start to fade out but may continue to emit some light for up to 36 hours. These glow bracelets are fresh from the factory.
Keep them in the freezer to make them last longer!

    • The best quality - Long lasting - Super Bright Glow Sticks-
    • Create super bright glowing bracelets, necklaces, glasses and more with the Super Bright Glow Sticks!
    • Includes 100 premium quality glow sticks - 8" long premium quality glow bracelets
    • Fresh from the factory- Ultra bright and long lasting! The longest lasting glow sticks
    • Non-toxic and CPSIA Compliant Glow Sticks - Premium Quality


The glow sticks were perfect for our birthday party. They are very bright! My kids and party guest had a blast with the glow sticks! The sticks when connected to themselves made great bracelets and anklets for the kids (some of the adults needed two). The kids could use two glow sticks to make a necklace but they preferred 3 as did the adults. We had several of the girl sticking them out of the pony tail really made them look like glow in the dark Jester. 
Sorry some of these pictures are fuzzy we where having a hard time taking picture of the glow sticks in the dark.

The kids also set up several night games with the glow sticks the connected 2 of each color to make a twister board in the front lawn.




 All the kids really enjoyed playing glow in the dark twister!

 We made targets for ring tosses.





The kids even set up a tick tack toe glow in the dark game.
 The kids played for hours... they ran across the law with glow snakes.
They made weird glow faces..

 
The kids also put the glow sticks in those big punch balloons. It's hard to see in the picture but they did glow well in the lighter colored balloons.

They also play glow stick tag and the feel asleep on the tramp.
But the fun did not end there!!!! That's when the adults started to play. 


 



 If you have the patients like my husband you can create 3D balls and cubes with the glow sticks.

 And you can click here to see what happens when you put the glow sticks in a battery powered drill.
 And what do you do with the glow sticks that have broke open? Create a glow in the dark master piece.
When everyone was done and the night was coming to and the glow stick that were left, were still glowing strong after 5 hours of play.

Other Fun Glow Stick Ideas I found on Pinterest!
  • Glowing Frisbee – attach a glow stick on top of a frisbee with clear tape for a cool neon game of frisbee at night!
  • Glowing Bath/Pool – toss some glow sticks into a bathtub & turn out the lights or in a pool for an after-dark swim! Tie them to something a little heavy to have them float to the bottom of the pool also.
  • Neon fan – tape some onto a fan for an after dark party!
  • Glow Bowling – add a glow stick to water bottles
  • Neon Lanterns – carefully cut off one end of a glow stick & pour the glowing ooze into a clear jar and shake it up. For lasting effects, add a bit of water! You could also add some glitter for sparkle effects in the light.
  • Decorative Chain – Link a bunch of glow stick bracelets together for a really cool decorative chain around the room!
  • Centerpieces – Use glow sticks in centerpieces for a nice light up effect.
  • Glowing Easter Eggs – add a glow stick to the inside of Easter Eggs!
There are tons of fun idea's out there to use these amazing glow sticks with, what will you come up with!!

Don't forget to get your glow sticks on Amazon from  Super Bright Glow Sticks at http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/b00nqj2dbg .

And Use the code 50glowst and you will get 

50% off your glow sticks  

until the end of August starting today at 4 pm PST.



* We did have some problems with the connectors falling off and the blue and green glow sticks not glowing as long. But the company has sent another tube of glow stick so I can see if it just messed up batch. I will up date as soon as the new tube gets to me. 




Friday, July 24, 2015

It's Summer time and I have 6 kids!!! And for those of you that don't know what it's like to have 6 kids well then just let me give you just a short inside view.
 I walk up to hungry kids who have to eat right now or they will die, bed changes for anyone who has had an accident over night, diaper changes, pick up the crazy mess..... (and this really doesn't do any good with 6 kids under 14 they just turn around and make it a bigger mess!!) We have so small down time before it's time to wash the 5 loads of laundry from they day before... why are there 5 loads... I really don't know. And then the kids are starving again :( So we find snacks and I send the kids out side to play... Haha more like so they can battle each other. Of our 6 kids 5 of them are boys! and in the 2 months I have been in the emergency room/ Ready Care at least 5 times and those do not include all the many band-aids and medical tape we've used at home.
We have lunch and more cleaning and usually with in 30 minus or so the kids think it's time for a snack again. In our house we try to keep the kids way from all the extra sugars and garbage in soda's and candies so most of our snacks consist of crackers with peanut butter and sometimes cheese, or carrots and ranch, apples, bananas, homemade banana ice cream. But every now and then this momma need some Chocolate!
 So the other day I saw this Banana Nutella Shushi video on Facebook and while in the store tonight I decided to buy the supplies to make these tomorrow. I'll let you know how it goes!
And the day just goes on from there. But believe it or not I love it and don't think I would change a thing!

Thursday, July 23, 2015

Making money as a say at home Mom!

When I was younger (before starting to have kids) I never imagined I'd be a Stay at Home Mom. After I found out I was pregnant with my first child over 8 years ago my husband and I sat down and weighed out our options. He had two kids that he had custody of 100% off the time and we where going to be adding a 3rd to the mix. At that time we figured it was going to be cheaper for me to stay at home with the kids. So I put in my 2 weeks notice and a way we went. I've done several side jobs through the years. Stage hand work right along side my husband at several concerts, plays, and different performances. I have hand cut and made t-shirt rugs to sell them online. I love to crochet and make hats, blankets and booties. I've sold Slumber Parties, Tupperware, and Jamberry nail wraps. And for the past couple years I have been selling vinyl from home! It was fun to start with my husbands family has discussed starting a vinyl business and running it together. So we were pulling together ideas but... that didn't happen. So I let them do their thing and I bought my machine and started selling it to pay off my machine and then it just became fun! Because I was able to help create what people saw in their heads and wanted and I was getting paid alittle to do it. My sister inlaw started selling on several different deal sites and I though why not. I've only ran about 10 deals so far but they have been fun! I'm helping people get what they want in vinyl for a great price!
You can check out my current deal on Eleventh Avenue at https://www.eleventhavenue.com/deal/68605/back-to-school-vinyl This amazing deal will only be running until July 28th.
You can also check out my facebook page Half Dozen.

Sunday, July 19, 2015

Just a Small tip of our Crazy summer!

Our life has been crazy busy, but who's isn't right! I always feel like if we can just make it through the school year to the summer we'll get to relax alittle.... So not true!!! We are just as busy in the summer as we are during the school year if not busier.
Our oldest will be in high school next year and has joined the marching band. The summer started with a marching band camp to prepare them for the up coming 4th of July parade. Her marching band was the first in the line up because the band had placed first last year. They will also be 1st again next year because in the prejudging they placed first again! Jonathan and I are so proud of her and her dedication to preforming in the band.  We live over a mile from where they practice and 90% of the time she bikes to practice. So not only is she getting the work out for marching but also from pedaling there, 
 She has not had a week this summer that she hasn't had a camp, parade or rehearsal this summer. She is loving it!! She just finished a week a the University marching band camp and she loved it! 
She has one more Marching band camp, a week of girls camp and then a week visiting family in Arizona and then back to school! 



I/ We ;) (because my husband supports me in anyway he can! Even if that means chasing crazy chickens around!!) decided to raising meat chicken this summer. We bought 20 thinking we could just rotate them and when these where big enough to start killing we would buy more. But the local feed store was running a promotion when we bought our hens this year. When you bought a bag of starter feed they would give you 15 free rooster. This same promotion was still running when I picked up my meat birds and bought another bag of  starter feed, 
The next week Cal Ranch was doing a chicken stock day and ever little kid that came in received a free chicken (Freedom Rangers). So We ended up with 20 Cornish Hens, 30 Roster, and 11 Freedom Rangers!!!! That's only 41 more than I really want haha. Total I think we lost under 10 of them to various reasons. We are housing them out on my brothers farm because we can't have that many chicken's in town :(. 

Our poor dryer has quit working at least 3 times this summer :( The crazy thing is about ready to drive me NUTS!!! So we have borrowed a dryer until ours is fixed so I must go and get caught back up on some laundry.




Monday, July 22, 2013

Mom Hacks for the kids during Summer!

What family can Really afford $600 plus dollars per child on Summer Expense? We have 5 kids that would total to $3000 just for summer fun activities. That is why Mom's like me search for cheaper way to entertain our children during the summer. Helen Fang compiled an awesome list of "DIY tips and tricks".

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Wednesday, October 17, 2012

Carmel Pop Corn!!!


So after having just pain carmel, and then making the fudge with marshmallows and carmel in it and then the carmel apples I decided that Carmel Pop Corn would be so good!!
This one is an easy one. I popped a bag of microwave pop corn and then warmed up about 1/2 cup of the carmel that I had left over from making Carmel Apples and just mixed it in really good! Oh man was it good!!!!

Puppies


 Our little puppies are now 4 weeks and 7 days old. And they are developing the very one playful personalities! What fun it is to watch them grow.
This is the little boy.





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This little girl is all Chocolate colored.

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This is the other little girl.